Right now, our system is highly convoluted and complicated. It is hard to find a family physician covered by your insurance. Furthermore, it is hard to find one where you can get an appointment within 2 months. Lastly, getting a specialist appointment for pressing medical issues can take 3 months or more.
This system also places an emphasis on treating symptoms, rather than treating the illness itself. This is because the system is based on a for profit model, and providers simply make much more off of continuously treating symptoms. Once a root illness is discovered, the symptoms will likely disappear. I have written a description of what our goals should be for healthcare reform.
They are:
· Finding primary care physician/family doctor covered by your insurance should be easy
· Getting a primary care/family doctor appointment should take no longer than 2 weeks.
· Getting a specialist appointment should take no longer than one month.
· Before providers begin providing care, they should know which services are not covered by your insurance. They should ask for your consent before performing procedures that your insurance wont cover
The healthcare system should be reoriented to focus on diagnosing and treating root illnesses, not continuous appeasing of symptoms. We will likely have to tinker with the current for profit model to achieve this goal. Furthermore, access to healthcare should be tripled from its current state to meet the above goals. These goals and reforms should serve to make the US healthcare system a preventative care one, not a reactionary care system. The lack of routine access to healthcare forces the average person to wait until their problems become serious enough that they need to seek immediate medical care. More accessible preventative care would increase the health of our nation by preventing medical conditions from reaching this point.
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