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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (489659)6/21/2009 4:48:50 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) of 1571035
 
"Merritt Hawkins, a consulting firm that specializes in recruiting physicians and other health care professionals, surveyed more than 1,150 medical offices in 15 cities. The survey measured average appointment wait times in family practices as well as four specialties: cardiology, dermatology, obstetrics/gynecology and orthopedic surgery.

The survey found that, on average, wait times have increased by 8.6 days per city. Boston had the longest wait, averaging 49.6 days, followed by Philadelphia with 27 and Los Angeles with 24.2. The shortest was Atlanta with an 11.2-day wait.

I stand corrected it wasn't a national average....I read it more than a week ago...but the Boston average is what I remembered ...and that ain't no next day visit....

"my boss returned to the US from Canada with a serious back problem - in Canada he was going to have to wait 6 mos on an MRI" All you RWer's seem to have a boss or a cousin or a friend of Aunt Tillie in Canada who had to wait 6 months for a compound fracture. The simple fact is that if your bosses problem were serious enough he wouldn't have had to wait at all.....you didn't say if he was a Canadian citizen?

"resist more government encroachment in health care lest these waits become measured in months instead of days."

Are we the only smart country in the world??? Why is world mostly national healthcare?????

And if government run healthcare is so bad, why is Medicare so successful.......those folks don't have to wait any longer than anyone else...
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