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[quote=Anonymous]I’m grateful that my experience of doctors in recent years has been very different from what’s being relayed. I’ve been on state medical insurance for the last several years, I have been working only 3/4 time because of significant health issues and needed to go on Medicaid equivalent in order to have really good insurance. My state was first in the nation to require universal health coverage and we are very close to that objective so I’m lucky in that regard. My Medicaid has covered everything and in the last few years, during pandemic, I have been to many doctors visits with my GP and numerous specialists and none of them were telehealth - just masks required in office and covid screening. I had several in hospital covid tests prior to procedures in hospital, but now it’s just masks. The only telehealth experiences I’ve had are in the mental health arena where much of the business is going forward with that model, I think because it allows much lower overhead I’m fairly sure the two therapists I’ve been working with the last two years are both working from home and I’ve never met either of them in person but the therapy has been terrific just the same.

Still, I am very concerned about what’s happening in healthcare, it is definitely a crisis. I work in healthcare myself the last seven years as a hospice caregiver, and I’ve talked a lot with my own providers and with clients providers about the stress on nursing and physician care, the shortages and pressures intensified by the pandemic - but the problems were there long before and no, it’s not because of the ACA. I’ve yet to meet one healthcare provider who isn’t glad to see more people getting access to medical care. The issues in healthcare are about corporate profits taking priority over patient care and provider wellbeing. It has all the same pains of every other capitalist industry, it is just that the cost to human welfare is that much higher. We set this system up all wrong and we are paying a very dear price. [/quote]

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