Cash and Money

You sometimes I just wonder about people and what has happened to healthcare. I saw a nice family this week who's child had an allergic rash. When I came back to the room to talk about our plan and told her that she was going to need to get some over the counter steroid cream she responded.."wait, wait, I am going to have to pay for something?!?!" I honestly didn't know what to say and we are certainly not talking about an expensive item that is likely going to take the rash away. Is that how the public thinks healthcare should work? All the care should be free and all the medications free? Let's see what healthcare reform has in store for us.

90%?

While this post is not about the rumored Apple tablet PC, I do find it pretty cool and maybe it would even have possible benefits to the healthcare industry. Today in the ER, I asked one of the financial experts and she claimed that 90%, yes 90% of the ER visits to our Pediatric ER get paid for! I was shocked by this number...could it actually be this high? I do think that it is good that the hospital is actually getting paid when kids come in with nothing, there needs to be a line drawn. Maybe you should be charged for ER visits that could be seen at your community MD. I still am amazed by how many people actually have primary doctors and yet they do not actually go to them! They only go for well child visits. I don't know, once again it all seems wrong to me.