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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (607898)	4/15/2011 5:46:45 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1583386

You wouldn't mind talking to a PA or an APN over an MD, even if that was determined by bureaucracy instead of quality of health care. I don't know about you, but I'd be a little nervous if, for anything other than minor conditions, the only people I saw were PAs or nurses. You only see a PA for minor conditions...one argument that could be made is that this is just what the doctor ordered, so to speak, to control costs. Remember that we have a serious fiscal problem here. In the name of cost control, patients may have to tolerate much less access to doctors. Maybe you don't mind that, but I suspect a lot of people would. Ok, but what's the alternative for some of these people. If Medicaid is not it, Medicare is too costly, private insurance unaffordable...then what? Al