The talk on Health Care Costs

Yes I am a bit jaded.

I spent an hour and half in the waiting room of my general physician to get in and find out that they did not have the results of my blood test.

Some of what I was getting was the usual.. when something goes wrong in corporate.. well.. who did you talk to kind of stuff.. Not appropriate for my health.

So yes I was able to tie my interaction with a blood draw that one of the assistants remembered.(This is my brother in law's old trick.. leave the clerk memorable about you) and then the Dr.. but the lab had closed so.. some good it did. Call back tomorrow afternoon and we will find it and let you know..

Yes health care needs reform.

And maybe just maybe it needs to get a little more accountable for the cash it takes away. I would have been happy with an email of the results. No appreciable overhead needed for that. No paying the secretary to make me wait.. no over crowded waiting room.. yep once again no place to sit and wait for my appointment.

The dr. could have looked at a half a dozen blood results in the half an hour that I waited once I got in. He did the cursory check of the lungs and the heart. He complained that his profit went down from 260 K a year to 26k a year due to the fact that Medicare was paying him far less for what he did than they used to.. Its no wonder that now that Drs. are finally on the side of doing something that is bound to eat the very soul of our economic system. And all this time we thought it was just the banks.

I was reading in the economist the banks are following the same pathway as the telecom business. Only banks are worth 3 times as much. Discovery, subsidy, bankruptcy support and clean up. The car companies are headed in that direction too. So far my Fords still look good.. but for how long?

The health care industy has offered the Obama team 2 Trillion in savings. So why wasn't this happening before.. greed.. and also preparation for the inevetable.. Public health care. 2 T amounts to 2500 dollar savings on each and every health user in private health care programs.. Thata about as much as it went up in the last Bush administration.. at least for us.

After my last experience with the Dr. I think that I could show how health care could save.

Private companies rebating to save from government incursion. Things have changed.. no one wants to be a Republican leader.

: ) Pat