Comments on: Health Care: Who Buys and Who Pays? (II) http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/02/26/health-care-who-buys-and-who-pay-part-ii/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:35:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Brenda Bowers http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/02/26/health-care-who-buys-and-who-pay-part-ii/#comment-16 Brenda Bowers Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:16:00 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2007/02/26/health-care-who-buys-and-who-pay-part-ii/#comment-16 This is primarily because at one time you went to see a doctor when you were sick. Now there are so many specialists a person has no idea who to go to so we have to see a “Primary care doctor” to be referred to the right specialist to see. That’s two doctor bills and two days work missed. Not to mention the follow ups required by both doctors. I use some common sense and cancel/ignore most “follow up visits” since when the condition is cured I certainly don’t need a doctor to tell me I am feeling better and/or healed! Employing the above plan would have one beneficial effect, it would cause parents to use a bit of peroxide and a band-aid on a scratch , and wait a bit to see if the bump on the arm really broke the arm or only bruised it rather running off to a doctor for coddling and x-rays. I sometimes wonder how I was able to grow to adulthood and then bringing two children up by using the old method of just kissing a boo-boo! This is primarily because at one time you went to see a doctor when you were sick. Now there are so many specialists a person has no idea who to go to so we have to see a “Primary care doctor” to be referred to the right specialist to see. That’s two doctor bills and two days work missed. Not to mention the follow ups required by both doctors. I use some common sense and cancel/ignore most “follow up visits” since when the condition is cured I certainly don’t need a doctor to tell me I am feeling better and/or healed!

Employing the above plan would have one beneficial effect, it would cause parents to use a bit of peroxide and a band-aid on a scratch , and wait a bit to see if the bump on the arm really broke the arm or only bruised it rather running off to a doctor for coddling and x-rays. I sometimes wonder how I was able to grow to adulthood and then bringing two children up by using the old method of just kissing a boo-boo!

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