Comments on: US Healthcare leadership – an oxymoron? http://www.smallbusinessboomers.com/us-healthcare-leadership-an-oxymoron/ business advice for boomers Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:05:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Miki http://www.smallbusinessboomers.com/us-healthcare-leadership-an-oxymoron/comment-page-1/#comment-540 Miki Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:03:39 +0000 http://www.smallbusinessboomers.com/us-healthcare-leadership-an-oxymoron/#comment-540 Jean, The last numbers I saw said that there were 42 million uninsured and another 16 million under insured. In my post Tuesday I offer some numbers regarding who is NOT paying taxes. As to waiting, a friend of mine had a mammogram and the POSITIVE results were MAILED to her and include a second appointment a MONTH later to confirm the diagnosis. Instead of waiting, she went someplace else and paid for another one which was also positive. She had immediate surgery. All of that happened BEFORE the date she'd been given for the follow-up by her HMO. Fortunately she could pay. But I'm very tired of everybody saying what great healthcare we have here. Many of the people who have the money are flying overseas for their procedures. Worse, I saw statistics that said that more than 50% of hospital-related infections were a result of personnel, especially doctors, not washing their hands. Kaiser has signs up in patients telling staff to wash their hands, but my friend said that when her mother was there recently she had to remind them to wash more than once. Jean, The last numbers I saw said that there were 42 million uninsured and another 16 million under insured. In my post Tuesday I offer some numbers regarding who is NOT paying taxes.

As to waiting, a friend of mine had a mammogram and the POSITIVE results were MAILED to her and include a second appointment a MONTH later to confirm the diagnosis. Instead of waiting, she went someplace else and paid for another one which was also positive. She had immediate surgery. All of that happened BEFORE the date she’d been given for the follow-up by her HMO. Fortunately she could pay.

But I’m very tired of everybody saying what great healthcare we have here. Many of the people who have the money are flying overseas for their procedures. Worse, I saw statistics that said that more than 50% of hospital-related infections were a result of personnel, especially doctors, not washing their hands. Kaiser has signs up in patients telling staff to wash their hands, but my friend said that when her mother was there recently she had to remind them to wash more than once.

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