Impending Disaster In The Medical Industry?

How often have you or a loved one gone to the doctor or the emergency room expecting to get help? Instead, you receive a prescription or are just sent home. So often, they tell to us what we already know. Who doesn’t know, for example, what a cold or headache feels like? We are not going to these places to be told what we necessary have. We want to be on the road toward recovery.

It can take hours before they bring the message to us. Moreover, doctor visits, tests, and prescriptions have gone up immensely in the last five years. If insurance refuses to cover the cost, the consumer is responsible this cost. For HMO and Medicaid patients, this can seem impossible. This turns these patients into victims because no follow up care is being done.

The point is, it isn't necessarily the doctor's fault. I have many clients who are on Medicaid or in HMOs, and it seems those organizations often seem to feel they know more than the doctors who are trying to get approval for their patients. So the patients too often have no other choice but to do without because the means are taken away.

Would you like to know what may be about to happen to all of us involving the health care plan that congress is wanting to pass? Look no further than HMOs and Medicaid. Come to think of it, maybe that isn't a fair comparison. It just might get worse.