[oh8eleven]

For example, the average wait to see a new family doctor in this country is just under three weeks. But in Boston, with ObamaCare-type reform, the wait is about two months.
I refuse to believe both stats are real - three weeks to see a doctor? Ridiculous. But two months? Absurd.
Sorry, but as much as I detest and abhor Øbama(no)Care, this entire article reeks of Chicken Little.

[Izzy Dunne]

three weeks to see a doctor? Ridiculous. But two months? Absurd.

--- They're talking about new patients.

[bill1952]

You think that is bad?
My wife works in healthcare. Florida.
4 to 5 MONTHS is very common for a specialist referral for those on medicaid - and in some fields, specialists don’t see any such patients at all. Zero.

[Kozak]

That 3 week wait time seems right for new patient appointments in my part of NC.

[spokeshave]

I refuse to believe both stats are real - three weeks to see a doctor? Ridiculous. But two months? Absurd Ha...just take a look at how it works in the UK....where 4 hour waits in the ambulance BEFORE you ever get inside the emergency room are normal....

And just wait till they start issuing orders to the doctors to match client with the care required....and prescriptions....don't forget all those complex prescription orders.

I see not just amputations on the wrong limb....but on the wrong patient.

and don't expect quick response for a broken arm:

And so you have an acute appendix....?

Mark Wattson, 35, from Swindon may have been the victim of botched surgery after he had to have his appendix removed twice

To his shock, surgeons from the same team told him that not only was his appendix still inside him, but it had ruptured - a potentially fatal complication.

In a second operation it was finally removed, leaving Mr Wattson fearing another organ might have been taken out during the first procedure.

The blunder has left Mr Wattson jobless, as bosses at the shop where he worked did not believe his story and sacked him.

Mr Wattson told of the moment he realised there had been a serious mistake.

'I was lying on a stretcher in terrible pain and a doctor came up to me and said that my appendix had burst,' he said.

'I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I told these people I had my appendix out just four weeks earlier but there it was on the scanner screen for all to see.

'I thought, "What the hell did they slice me open for in the first place?"

'I feel that if the surgery had been done correctly in the first place I wouldn't be in the mess I am today. I'm disgusted by the whole experience.'

Mr Wattson first went under the knife on July 7 after experiencing severe abdominal pain for several weeks. He was discharged but exactly a month later he had to dial 999 after collapsing in agony. Mr Wattson

Mr Wattson was readmitted to the Great Western Hospital in Swindon after his appendix ruptured.

Nurse will see you now

130,000 elderly patients killed every year by ‘death pathway’, claims leading UK doctor

by Thaddeus Baklinski Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:02 EST Tags: euthanasia, patrick pullicino, uk

LONDON, June 21, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An eminent British doctor told a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine in London that every year 130,000 elderly patients that die while under the care of the National Health Service (NHS) have been effectively euthanized by being put on the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), a protocol for care of the terminally ill that he described as a “death pathway.”

Sit back and enjoy your Obamacare.

[Vigilanteman]

It is already starting. My family bugged me and bugged me to get an appointment with a dermatologist to take a look at a dark spot on my face they thought might be cancerous.

This is in SW Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, home of some of the best hospitals and top medical schools in the country . . . and, by extension, some of the best doctor to patient ratios in the country as well.

I have a better than average medical plan from work, but it was still going to take over one month. So I did some research on-line and found that frankincense was effective in combating skin cell cancer. It wasn't cheap, but I ordered a bottle and the spot is now so small that my family thought the dermatologist (whose appointment I cancelled) actually treated it.

[kabar]

I refuse to believe both stats are real - three weeks to see a doctor? Ridiculous. But two months? Absurd.

Massachusetts Medical Society: Wait times for doctors is too long

"Take two aspirin and call me in two months." That's what prospective new patients looking for a first appointment with a family physician are hearing in Hampden and Hampshire counties, according to an annual survey from the Massachusetts Medical Society. The average wait time for a new patient appointment with a family physician in Hampden County is 58 days, up from 48 in the 2012 survey, according to a study released Monday.

In neighboring Hampshire County, the wait for a first appointment with a family physician is 56 days, down from 96 days a year ago. In Franklin County, the wait time fell by nearly half from 205 days to 106, but is still longer than three months and the longest wait time in the state.

By comparison, the statewide average is 39 days. Suffolk County, which includes Boston and its suburbs, has the shortest wait time at 16 days.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

I refuse to believe both stats are real - three weeks to see a doctor?

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The “Progressives” have long crowed about the glorious Canadian model for Health Care Reform.

Go research the waiting time for an MRI in Canada and get back to us.

[scrabblehack]

The going to the emergency room claim was a little suspect too....I think that only works for the very rich and very poor. Going without is the more likely alternative.

The last time I went to the emergency room — caught a really bad cold during Christmas...cost me $125 and the insurance wouldn’t pay because it wasn’t an emergency.

[Pining_4_TX]

I don’t know. It is taking longer and longer for us to get an appointment with our family doctor now. In fact, we usually have to see the nurse practioner for most things. I don’t mind, in a way, because that is usually fine. But what if we really needed to see our doctor? Government involvement in health care has been messing things up for decades, and it’s getting worse.

[VerySadAmerican]

I’m sure most can get in to see a doctor much faster. But from what I’ve see, if a doctor has openings, there’s a reason for it.

And it’s good to see Kerry and Pelosi can get their Botox treatments as needed.