Health Care in America:

[BoatBuoy]

Two patients limp into two different American Medical clinics with the same complaint.
Both have trouble walking and appear to require a hip replacement.

The first patient is examined within the hour, is x-rayed the same day and has a time booked for surgery the following week.

The second sees the family doctor after waiting a week for an appointment, then waits eighteen weeks to see a specialist, then gets an x-ray, which isn't
reviewed for another month and finally has his surgery scheduled for 6 months from then.

Why the different treatment for the two patients?











The first is a Golden Retriever;

The second , a U. S. senior citizen

 

[jtexas]

Re: Health Care in America:

The first is a professional athlete?

 

[JB]

Re: Health Care in America:

The second one is Canadian, on socialized medicine.

 

[treedancer]

Re: Health Care in America:

The first patient is examined within the hour, is x-rayed the same day and has a time booked for surgery the following week.


This patient is going to a veterinarian, most likely a golden retriever.

 

[puddle jumper]

Re: Health Care in America:

The first is in the privet health care
The second in the public health care

 

[puddle jumper]

Re: Health Care in America:

JB your right Canadian health care can be very slow.

 

[ob]

Re: Health Care in America:

The first is recieving indigent health care in south texas and the second is paying through the nose on a company health care plan.

Nice troll.8)

 

[rolmops]

Re: Health Care in America:

The third patient earned too much to be considered for medicaid and not enough to afford health insurance.He never made it to the doctor and died.This was in the USA

 

[Reel Poor]

Re: Health Care in America:

The first patient is an illegal alien and the second patient is a hard working American citizen paying for over priced medical insurance and being forced into a line at a PPO provider.

 

[stan_deezy]

Re: Health Care in America:

And the British patient waits for 18 hours in an over-crowded clinic with a skeleton staff (pun intended) and foriegn doctors who can't speak English. They get booked for a colonoscopy.
The colonoscopy nurse realises the mistake and takes a blood sample to confirm her diagnosis of malaria. The patient is sent home to await the outcome of the blood test.
A month later the patient returns to the clinic to be told that the blood test is back and the good news is he doesn't have malaria but he is pregnant!
Another consult is booked with the ante-natal clinic who realise there has been a mistake and do an abdominal ultrasound looking for the source of the limp. This requires the patient to sit for six hours in an over-crowded xray department with a skeleton staff and a radiologist who can't speak English. The radiologist carries out a neurological CAT scan on the basis that a man who thinks he's pregnant must have a brain tumour. The patient is sent home to wait for the results.
He returns to the clinic, still limping and in pain, six months later. He waits only four hours this time because a nurse has turned up for duty and the doctor once knew someone who could speak English.
This time the doctor realises that mistakes have been made and arranges for an xray to be done on the leg.
Another six hour wait in the over-crowded, skeleton-staffed x-ray department follows but finally the patient is wheeled back to the clinic.......................but too late, the clinic is closed for the day. An emergency appointment is made for six months time.

At this point the patient decides he's had enough of the hassle and goes on holiday to France, falls over as he gets off the plane, gets rushed to hospital and has a hip replacement that afternoon. The UK government pays the bill and fires another nurse to cover the costs.

Aye, health care, a thorny issue with few solutions but the best one has to be..........................don't fall ill, ever! :'(

 

[rwise]

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1st PPO
2nd HMO
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[kenimpzoom]

Re: Health Care in America:

How bout you propose a solution instead of always whinning about the problem.

Ken

 

[xtraham]

Re: Health Care in America:

1) welfare

2) P.O.W. / D.A.V.