If you're on Medicare or Medicaid, doctors are hard to come by. No shit. The reimbursement rates are too low, the paperwork is intense and the claims processing time is outrageous. Why would any doctor accept Medicare and Medicaid is the better question. (AAS) And just wait until there's that 10% reduction in the reimbursement that goes through...things with Medicare will be all rosy then.
Wasn't it just yesterday that the president was all pissed off that Hillary Clinton's new campaign ad called the elderly in this country invisible and the White House released a statement condemning the commercial and reminding America how the president has improved health care access for seniors?
Oops. Sorry a fact got in your way. Dumbass.
Oh wait, here's a great story to further beat this dead horse. "Husband throws wife off ledge because he can't afford her medical bills anymore." Niiiice.
While you are right, txrichman, that universal health care is not the panacea many wish it would be, talking about the market in health care is a bit off. Given the level of regulation of the industry, there is no real "market" to create efficiencies for us. Until America decides if health care is a right or a business, the health care crisis will remain.
that's sad
but this whole post and that story show the complete errancy of the statement that "universal healthcare can be more efficient than the market"