[lit-ideas] Re: health care in the US
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:18:05 EST
<<if that is a
doctor's made a home visit.>>
Doctor house calls died out at least 50 years ago...... if you're entirely
to sick to drive to the Dr., you have to call an ambulance. To the tune of a
couple thousand dollars.
Julie Krueger
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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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