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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: Selectric II who wrote (11450)	7/14/2004 5:54:31 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) of 90947

"I witnessed my friends daughter call her doctor and get an appointment that afternoon...she was feeling dizzy. When was the last time you made a doctor's appointment for a minor ailment like that? It isn't done in America." - Orca Another completely bogus claim from Orca. If my daughter were "feeling dizzy", the nurse on my HMO's advice line would ask a couple basic questions about other symptoms, activities prior to becoming dizzy, food and drug consumption, etc. and, depending on the answers, either approve an emergency room visit or schedule an appointment as early as the time it'd take me to drive to the doctor's office. Appointments for more common ailments like a mild fever, a sore throat or an ear ache have never been more than a few hours after our call. Even clearly non-urgent concerns don't meet with a "take two aspirin and call back tomorrow" response. And that's with an HMO! In fact, the only thing we ever have to schedule ahead is routine checkups. The claim that Americans can't get in to see a doctor promptly for relatively minor ailments is just another baseless bit of hyperbole.

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