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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

About thirty percent of my wife's work is paperwork, on top of all of the 
paperwork done for her by the office people.  The GP for whom you worked was 
either negligent or spent much more time doing paperwork than you realized.  
We have many doc friends.  They spend much of their time on gov't and 
insurance paperwork, even with computers.  They are salaried, like my wife; 
the company or gov't org. doesn't care how much of their home time, weekend, 
etc they spend on paperwork

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--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:

> From: Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tell me again why Republicans are good for people
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 2:16 PM
> 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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