[lit-ideas] Re: health care in the US

I can see one of my primary care doctors the same day
I phone up -- if I phone at 8.30 in the morning -- or
by booking up to a week ahead.  Same day, no guarantee
it will be my first choice of doctor, though the last
2 times, it has been.

(They'd never send a non-repeat prescription without
seeing me.)

>And then you drag your fevered body to the pharmacy
>to cough up the $150 for the antibiotic. 

one pharmacy here will call and collect a prescription
for me and return it filled -- free, if that is a
doctor's made a home visit.
(The NHS is their main source of prescription fee
income, so they compete for custom.)

The Welsh hospital system is in less good shape..




Judy Evans, Cardiff


                
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