Comments on: If you need health care right now… http://www.cpt12.org/news/index.php/2009/09/04/if-you-need-health-care-immediately/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:53:00 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Medicaid Doctors http://www.cpt12.org/news/index.php/2009/09/04/if-you-need-health-care-immediately/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Medicaid Doctors Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:53:00 +0000 http://www.kbdi.org/news/?p=97#comment-59 This is so interested! Where can I find more like this? This is so interested! Where can I find more like this?

]]> By: Ann Imse, editor http://www.cpt12.org/news/index.php/2009/09/04/if-you-need-health-care-immediately/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Ann Imse, editor Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:14:34 +0000 http://www.kbdi.org/news/?p=97#comment-6 Thanks for your comments and suggestions! The discount story can be found, above right, under the headline, "Doctors offer healthy discounts." Thanks for your comments and suggestions!
The discount story can be found, above right, under the headline, “Doctors offer healthy discounts.”

]]> By: Jack Shaw http://www.cpt12.org/news/index.php/2009/09/04/if-you-need-health-care-immediately/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Jack Shaw Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:01:19 +0000 http://www.kbdi.org/news/?p=97#comment-5 Oh, and a postscript. Your article makes tentative reference to "discounts" etc., but doesn't follow through. That's what editors are for -- to keep things professional. There's no substitute for another set of eyes. JS Oh, and a postscript. Your article makes tentative reference to “discounts” etc., but doesn’t follow through. That’s what editors are for — to keep things professional. There’s no substitute for another set of eyes.

JS

]]> By: Jack Shaw http://www.cpt12.org/news/index.php/2009/09/04/if-you-need-health-care-immediately/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Jack Shaw Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:57:48 +0000 http://www.kbdi.org/news/?p=97#comment-4 If CPN (or whatever you call yourself) is going to do real investigative reporting, it will have to do better than this article implies. Here, you relate a story of a woman whose child could have been treated under "presumptive eligibility". If she was qualified and applied, it was incumbent upon those to whom she applied to already be aware of "presumptive eligibility", and not her. As things stand today, the health system "consumer" has to know more about the labyrinthine system than those who administer it. This on top of often limited facility in English. Add to that the fact that the very people who must understand so much more than most are in a socioeconomic category (aliens, elderly, impaired, etc.) that the assumption of their access to online resources (one your article also implies) is absurd. Who in this category is Internet savvy enough to Google the day away navigating the maze when a child or other family member is clearly ill? All of these possibilities are Monday-morning advice. There is only one true solution: a health system that doesn't presume post-graduate understanding of bureaucratic systems and require online acumen. The cost will be manageable once people recognize the elephant in the corner: a going-nowhere multi-front military adventure and the expense of feeding it at Pentagon prices. That money could buy a lot of aspirin. If CPN (or whatever you call yourself) is going to do real investigative reporting, it will have to do better than this article implies. Here, you relate a story of a woman whose child could have been treated under “presumptive eligibility”. If she was qualified and applied, it was incumbent upon those to whom she applied to already be aware of “presumptive eligibility”, and not her.

As things stand today, the health system “consumer” has to know more about the labyrinthine system than those who administer it. This on top of often limited facility in English.

Add to that the fact that the very people who must understand so much more than most are in a socioeconomic category (aliens, elderly, impaired, etc.) that the assumption of their access to online resources (one your article also implies) is absurd. Who in this category is Internet savvy enough to Google the day away navigating the maze when a child or other family member is clearly ill? All of these possibilities are Monday-morning advice.

There is only one true solution: a health system that doesn’t presume post-graduate understanding of bureaucratic systems and require online acumen. The cost will be manageable once people recognize the elephant in the corner: a going-nowhere multi-front military adventure and the expense of feeding it at Pentagon prices. That money could buy a lot of aspirin.

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