Is the quality of healthcare you're provided with really affected by your ability to pay for it?
2007-09-15 13:40:43 · 5 answers · asked by Mike M. 7 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Sad but true the more you pay the better the care ..sad huh
2007-09-15 13:53:15 · answer #1 · answered by Jay & Gigi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What healthcare? I have no insurance, therefore I never see a doctor! I had to borrow the money for my D.O.T. Physical ($60 at a quick-care clinic)! Good thing I'm still pretty healthy, huh?
I'm worried about my daughter. She has health problems all the time, and just had her medicaid taken away. They said she makes too much money. She's a college student and works part-time as a clerk at a dry cleaners! Never mind she has a 4-year-old child, too! I don't know what she's going to do when she gets sick, she can't afford the doctor, and she can't afford not to go to one. Her employer pays minimum wage and offers no insurance of any kind.
There's something wrong with this country when decent, hard-working people can't get healthcare! If you're a "minority" it seems they give you whatever you want, or you can scream discimination, but the rest of us are just screwed! Sorry that sounds racist, but that's how it looks to me!
2007-09-16 01:25:16 · answer #2 · answered by baymast13 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The quality of my healthcare is affected by the ethics and standards of the company that I choose to use for my health care insurance, along with which doctors I use and their abilities and ethics. And this is a difficult thing to determine in a short time.
A good question to ask might be how to determine which companies offer the best health care insurance as far as treating their customers right and how to determine what is the best doctor to use.
And that's most likely a shot in the dark too. Which has brought me to at least currently be all in favor of universal health care, especially when I talked to 2 doctor friends of mine who are for it. I was surprised! I thought that doctors were against universal health care, but apparently that isn't the case.
2007-09-15 13:58:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an LPN and studying to be an R.N. I'm not sure I quite understand what you're saying, but sometimes people do leave the office feeling as if they were cheated somehow. The Doc comes in and spends 5mins or less goes out writes the script and sends them on their way. I have had people tell me I know he didn't understand or take time to listen to me. That always makes me angry and sad too! I want everyone that comes in to leave feeling like they have had the best of care and worth the money they have to pocket out.
2007-09-15 13:54:10 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It shouldn't be especially if it is an emergency. If you are going to the ER for a cold and taking up space and staff time,you probably will not receive a warm welcome but you will get the treatment eventually
2007-09-15 13:54:10 · answer #5 · answered by Marcia F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋