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Its also the size of my community...we lost some doctors due to retirement and they have not been replaced....but I just don't remember these complaints before the ACA....maybe I was far removed at the time but things today can certainly be made better...and with something as important as healthcare...it should be...As I said, long waits for treatment are usually due to limits put on the patient by their insurance company. That's not a problem with Medicare because almost all doctors take Medicare.Yeah I didn't have all of the details...but I've been hearing stories of super long wait times for appointments...Not knowing the details, I'm going to guess that she isn't getting to see a local doctor in a timely manner because her insurance company's network limits her choices locally. By contrast, 91% of all doctors in the country accept Medicare. That breaks down to 87% of family doctors and 99% of all specialist.Hope your dad is okay dude....He’s in Hackensack hospital in New Jersey. Was suffering from nausea and wasn’t able to eat for a few days so we took him to the hospital. Now my question is that if we implement a single payer system doesn’t conventional wisdom tell us our hospitals will be even more overcrowded and of even less quality than they are now?
I took my uncle to his cardiologist on Monday...while I was waiting a women walked in and said she had eye trauma and her doctor told her to see a heart doctor immediately because her eye could have been a development of a serious heart issue....they told her she would have to wait for 5 weeks or drive 6 hours to LA....she left crying probably wondering how she was going to drive that far with one eye.....if I were king of the US...I would have Pelosi and Obama drawn and quartered on national TV....and then I would strip congress and the senate of their government health care coverage and put them on Obamacare....these careless people disgust me....
My daughter had see a neurosurgeon and her HMO insurance gave her 3 choices within an 100 mile radius 2 were booked up for 5 months. The over one offered her an appointment with their PA with a 3 month wait. I'll bet there are at least 25 neurosurgeons in that area and probably all of them accept Medicare.