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

<<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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