What Would You Do to Fix the Failings of Healthcare Delivery ?

Mini2544, ASN, RN · Nov 16, 2017

I see many people think there should be universal healthcare on here. Do people on here realize exactly how that works? And that the single payer system in the U.K. Is a mess and so many people are unhappy with it? It's not this perfect system. In countries like France, they still have private insurance. People with the private insurance have access to private hospitals. Everybody else with the single payer insurance go to other hospitals and their access to care is not equal. Here, everybody goes to the same hospitals, they all just have different insurance or no insurance. And they all have equal access. People here would scream if thays how it operated here.

ðŸ‘ðŸ»ðŸ‘ðŸ»ðŸ‘ðŸ»ðŸ‘ðŸ» I think Americans think If something is provided for them it's free. Which is just silly but we are talking about an imaginary world here where healthcare for all wouldn't cost 34 trillion over a 10 year span and people's tax would not be raised. ðŸ˜Š

LadysSolo · Nov 18, 2017

I think Assisted living and home health aides should be covered by Medicare - cheaper than SNF, and many people don't need SNF but can't afford self-pay for AL or home health aides daily. I also agree with universal health care at a basic level for all (preventive care in particular - "we won't pay for PT but you can have all the drugs you want,") and if you want to pay for additional you can, and I agree no "satisfaction surveys" for reimbursement (I couldn't have morphine for my hangnail, so you get poor survey results.") And outcomes to base reimbursement on - PLEASE! GET REAL! Until a way can be found to allow me to force my patients to do what I recommend, despite educating until I am blue in the face, PEOPLE DO NOT LISTEN UNLESS THEY WANT TO!!! I have entirely too many "fix me in spite of myself" patients.