The essence of why federal government interference with healthcare is undesirable and also unconstitutional if anyone cares about the Constitution anymore.
The answer for diabetic situations is whatever measures are needed to get the blood sugar within safe bounds. Testing and followup on that is what should matter.
This article is all about $$$$$$.
Doctors with years of experience should be able to make decisions about patient care based on Hippocratic ethics. Find one if you can.
I am about ready to look for another doctor, and it’s not because my current PCP isn’t a good doctor. It’s because his medical group was acquired by a HC “system” run by our local hospital, and now a bunch of bean counters have taken charge of the practice. Now his appointments are scheduled throughout the day at 20 minute intervals. His “nurse” (that would be Nurse Ratchet) does all the vitals crap, then he show up, shakes my hand and immediately sits down at the computer terminal and logs in. My “appointment” consists of ten minutes with me, and the other ten putting down stuff in my healthcare dossier, a place where shit shows up, but never leaves. If I came in for a hangnail ten years ago, it’s still there! The final straw was when I wrote to him on the system that’s provided, to tell him the results I’d seen with a change in my BP medication. I probably wrote six or eight sentences to adequately describe what had happened. A note that came back via “Nurse Ratchet” was that I had gone over the 140 characters the system allowed (which was BS because the form says that you can use up to 5,000 characters), and that he wanted her to admonish me not to violate the “communication rules” again. I did write back telling them that I had not violated the rules and that maybe he had his medical practice confused with his Twitter account. They run their office like a bunch of cats covering $hit now, and I’m about done with all of it. The only problem will be trying to find a doctor who is “taking patients.” Oh and that 20 minute appointment is at least $220. It is indeed “socialized medicine” being sold as personal healthcare.
Single payer always interferes with good medical care
MEN! CMS is killing us by elimminating PSA testing!!!!
Several major forces are converging.
Government directed medicine is ineffective and increasingly dangerous especially when it comes to choice conditions. Big pharma drugs, vaccines probably do more ham than good when compared to proper diet, exercise, natural treatments. So if you can’t access this “treatment” you’re better off.
Government directed care is expensive, as evidenced by skyrocketing insurance rates, high co-pays, deductibles, and denials of coverage. Administrative costs add nothing to care, but increase costs.
Government directed care less efficient because hospital and corporate employees work fewer hours and see fewer patients than self-employed physicians. As conditions become less favorable for employed providers, more will leave practice or retire early. Self employed providers are increasingly dropping insurance plans to escape low reimbursement and over-regulation.
Eventually, the government will make healthcare so crappy that patients will be forced to avoid it for their own good.