Our healthcare system is already in shambles- (and physician), it's quite scary! I see no easy fix.
My dad (DR) just says he keeps working more hours for less money...quote]
Working more hours for less money is the least of our problems! Patient care, quality initiatives, and research, have fallen by the wayside, as Managed Care entities, Hospital mega-systems, and bloated management, are rewarded for squeezing maximum $$$ out of the system. Infection rates and patient morbidity keep climbing with no end in sight. Nurse to patient staffing ratios are abominable, and getting worse. In my neck o' the woods, experienced RN's who complain about declining quality are fired, and replaced with lower paid and less skilled LPN's or "Patient Care Techs". Hospital CEO's are now rewarded with 2-3+ MILLION $$ ANNUAL BONUSES for shaving TENS of MILLIONS each year off the bottom line!! Those dollars should be going back into patient care! Medicare is trying to "fix" this with PQRI (Physician Quality Reporting Initiative) that "pays for better outcomes," but it will be a futile effort, as the system is no longer controlled by physicians, but rather Managed Care and Hospital Management.
I'd better get off my soapbox now, before I *really* go on a rant!
I am sure there a problems especially for Hospitals and their workers, but is there a better system in the world?
Moore explained on Larry King Live that we hear the other side all the time, which is why he showed the lesser known side.Sicko"? Moore definiately has his point of view...
Having lived abroad and worked for a few years on software for the British National Health System, I can say the U.S. healthcare system is woefully behind the times.
The fact that 40 to 50 million of our citizens (plus untold non-citizens) have no reliable access to health care (other than emergency care, which is the most burdensome), is unconscionable for the supposedly 'leader of the free world' and 'richest country'.
Everyone knows good, planned, preventative health care is the most cost-effective and quality of life enhancing way to deal with health. But we have no national plan to support that.
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