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Originally Posted by Keedy
I know a lot of people from Canada and they say it is fine unless you get sick. I have a friend who is a doctor and is told by the government how many patients he can see per month. By the 20th of the month he has hit his limit and has to not work or get fined etc. Great system where the waiting list to get assigned a family doctor is two to three years. That is to get a doctor if you don't have one.
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First, let me say that I am
not in favor of his plan. One thing we already have here that seems to parallel what you say about Canada are the HMO's, though. They are told how many, how much, etc. Our primary physician we had back home had to cut many of his patients because he was making too many referrals to specialists. Of course had he totally "played by their rules", my husband would have died instead of seeing a cardiologist and getting stents.....with 2 major arteries over 90% blocked, he was a heart attack waiting to happen. Same thing with getting him a colonoscopy. Nothing showed up on the office exam, but the more thorough procedure caught already pre-cancerous polyps. I needed an MRI for diagnosis which they denied at first. My physician simply chose to admit me to the hospital in order to do what needed to be done. When asked to approve the hospitalization, they decided that I could go ahead and have the MRI on an out-patient basis instead. Guess what....they found my problem, fixed it, and no more problem.
We just need something that is workable and I'm not smart enough to know what that is. I am smart enough to know what it isn't, however.