Health care system is still failing the vast majority of Americans
The resources of our health care system are limited in many ways. This isn’t a great surprise, given how many people use it, sometimes on a daily basis. The costs are still escalating and it isn’t going to slow down unless there are some top-down solutions.
ERs in most major cities are packed with people who should be dealing with a General Practitioner, not emergency room doctors. The people using ERs are typically those without health insurance. Find a way to provide health insurance coverage for them, and other segments of society who are uninsured and you just may have a solution to rising costs, and overcrowded waiting rooms at hospitals, etc. It will be interesting to see what health reform will do for crowded hospital waiting rooms.
The more we abuse the health care system, the more it suffers with physician burn-out, ever-increasing numbers of incidents of medical malpractice, and out-of-control costs. It’s time we took responsibility for our own health care.