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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tell me again why Republicans are good for people
  • Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:16:42 -0800

O.K., GPs don't do paperwork. They have staff do it. Almost all are now computerized, even the little bitty tiny burg I live in. GPs and doctors in general simply sign off on paperwork that they staff generates.

Now, I used to do the paperwork and I can tell you that it is LESS onerous now than it used to be. 20 to 30 years ago you had individual forms for each and every single insurance company. Each and every form had to be signed by the patient. It was beyond a PITA. Now almost all use the same forms, you get a signature from your patients once and have it on file and the forms are computer generated.

I just think all this carping about paperwork is cop-out!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tell me again why Republicans are good for people


I recently read an article that said 70 percent of all GPs
replied in a study that they were unhappy with their jobs
and would gladly change professions if they could. They
cited the biggest problem as all the paperwork the
insurance companies require, that they spend half their
day doing paperwork and the other half rushing patients
through. The article also said there are very few med
students that want to become GPs, it's much more lucrative
to become a specialist, and that there will be a shortage
of GPs in the future. I know our own GP has recently
started to cancel our appointments with little more than 2
hours notice, and I can only presume he has decided to
golf. As much as I like him and feel he is competent in
diagnosis, we are shopping around for a new one.

So once again, it's the insurance companies who are
causing the problem, instead of helping. If they don't get
the hmo paperwork out of whatever the solution is going to
be, I can't see the situation changing much.

--Sage

On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 11:22:25 -0600
"Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, bob ford
<bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
I do agree with you that national centralized
health-care is a bad idea. But, only because I think it
will not work as advertised and will lead to rationing
and lower the standards of health care for everone in the
country except the very rich..................

Just like Medicare has done.

Marie
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