Obama and Health Care
Okay, I had to take my son to the doctor on Thursday. My appointment was set for 2:45. I signed in at 2:40. At 3:15, the nurse finally called us back to the office. She took my sons temp and weighed him. I informed her at the time that I had to pick up my wife at 4:15, so if the doctor wasn’t going to be able to see me by 4:00, to let me know so I could call my wife. She said that the doctor was almost through with the current patient, and only had a physical to do before us, so it shouldn’t be that long.
For the next 45 minutes, my son (who, btw, is 3 years old) and I sat in a 10×10 room with nothing for him to do. At 4:00, I looked out of the room. The receptionist, nurse, and doctor were all sitting behind the desk doing some paperwork or something. 1 hour and 15 minutes after the appointment time, we had not been told anything about the doctor running behind.
Instead of worrying about giving everyone in the country health care (which who know how it is going to be paid for), lets worry about the health care people are already getting. If I told my students class started at 3, and didn’t show up until 3:15, they would have all left by then. If I was supposed to meet a client at noon, and didn’t show up until 12:30, I would lose the contract. NO ONE gets away with being that late, except doctors and dentists. Even airplanes that often run late at least let you know they are running late. And if its late enough, they will refund your money.
Maybe we should charge the doctors for being late. If the government imposed a fee for every time a doctor was more then 15 minutes late seeing a patient, then, not only would it be able to cover health care for everyone in the nation, but would actually be able to start paying back some of the debt. Or at least the doctors might stop overbooking, so that they actually took care of their patients and didn’t just think of them as a paycheck.
I second!!!!