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He's 26 years old but still sees a pediatrician: Why some young adults don't move on.
Washington Post ^
| August 18, 2019
| Caren Chesler
Posted on 08/20/2019 8:01:39 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: MarvinStinson
And if insurance is offered at work, there's generally a cost share involved
Oh, the horrors!
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:03:26 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: MarvinStinson
Of course they don’t mention that he still lives in Mom’s basement.
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:04:09 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
To: MarvinStinson
Total lack of awareness in these “adults”
My question is why are they going to a kid DR instead of a GP?
To: billyboy15
My question is why are they going to a kid DR instead of a GP?
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thanks to the Affordable Care Act, on their parents’ health insurance until age 26.
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:07:00 AM PDT
by
deport
To: MarvinStinson
I was on my parents’ insurance when I was 20. I did NOT see a pediatrician. Of course, in those faraway days, a Dr.’s visit cost about $25.00.
To: billyboy15
The pediatrician gives out swuckers to patients when they leave
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:08:12 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.btyC. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
To: billyboy15
My question is why are they going to a kid DR instead of a GP? Could be a couple of things:
They've NEVER gone to any other doctor but their original “kid doctor” and now are scared to go elsewhere. And, they don't know any better.
Their mother told them to go to the doctor, because SHE doesn't know any better!
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:10:50 AM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Do you mean like Medicare? Where they expect us to pay monthly, buy a supplement plan and still make co-pays?
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:11:35 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: miss marmelstein
My daughter got referred to a pediatric specialist for a certain problem she had at age 17.
I thought that was kind of strange for a 17-year old, but what did I know? That doctor did seem to help her.
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:12:05 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: MarvinStinson
My children’s pedes wanted to continue to see the kids through age 24.
Why?
There is a dearth of middle class children to add to the practice.
The boomers had their boom babies and the second boom is not reproducing.
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:14:06 AM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
To: Vigilanteman
Confirms to me exactly WHY we’re going to end up with socialized medicine at some point.
Cause too many people believe that it should be “FREE”.
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:15:45 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: Vigilanteman
Where they expect us to pay monthly, buy a supplement plan and still make co-pays?
___________________________________________________
My plan has changed: Co-payment =
Down payment.
To: MarvinStinson
A lot of them can't afford to live on their own and get their own insurance, or even afford the co-pay.
More Obamacare victories!
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:18:34 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: MarvinStinson
I don’t exactly see the problem.
If a 26-year-old wants to go to a pediatrician, and the pediatrician continues to take him as a patient, then that’s that.
If, on the other hand, a pediatrician has a policy that (let’s say) “We treat people age 18 and under, after that age, we will recommend a GP who can help you” then lines have been sketched out.
But from the article it seems like people are sort of complaining without actually complaining or doing anything. What’s the point?
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:18:46 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
To: ClearCase_guy
Exactly. If I like a certain doctor and the doctor wants to help me as a patient, it’s a non story.
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:22:44 AM PDT
by
CaptainK
('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
To: CaptainK
Maybe this is just one more new issue for libs to scream that someone is discriminating against them, and they are being victimized.
Soon there will be court cases of snowflake liberals suing their pediatricians for discontinuing to see them past age 20 or whatever...
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:29:10 AM PDT
by
NEMDF
To: MarvinStinson
I just don't understand these kids. At age 26 I would have been ashamed to death to be living with my parents, being carried on their insurance and still seeing a pediatrician! I didn't start making real money until I was in my early 30's and lived in some pretty sketchy places in my 20's before I got married...but I was on my own. That's what mattered to me.
AND...I could NEVER see either of my grandkids doing any of this crap. They'd never act like this.
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:31:22 AM PDT
by
pgkdan
(The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
To: MarvinStinson
Buying insurance through your employer should be illegal.
What if my employer made me buy the car insurance he likes?
Or the homeowner insurance?
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:32:43 AM PDT
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
To: MarvinStinson
We're now treating people for adult diseases, things we weren't trained to treat," she says, such as adult hypertension, Type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, pregnancy, even depression and anxiety.Is she suggesting that not everyone with an MD after his/her name is qualified to do basic medicine?!
If so, I find that mind-boggling.
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posted on
08/20/2019 8:36:24 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Break out the mustard seeds)
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