Do you know that we are still dealing with IV fluid shortages, today? There are also other drugs that are in shortage, drugs that are hard to get because the raw resources are a challenge to obtain, or it’s quality control, or the facilities are not able to scale up. While the general public discusses drugs, often leading to discussions about opiods and the evils that several people and companies participated in for that scheme, a scheme that cost lives… there are actual shortages within the system right now. It’s actually a top concern and can be potentially lethal. Cutting costs… won’t fix that. It can’t. We’re talking some companies putting in what a billion dollars from I think it was Braun or so to try and get that going… I expect they expect to be paid for that but I am sure they’ll have no problems with if it costs too much according to some other countries heavily subsidized offering attitude, let’s just not pay them. I don’t know what they’re going to charge. I just know we don’t have enough. It’s dangerous. I don’t what they’re going to charge the USA for it. It could be more, seems usually more then the other countries, but we’ll see.
If politicians could spend some time caring about this, heck maybe spend more air time talking about PR in general which alongside all the other problems going on there, this was one of them… still is.
There are nurse shortages. PCP shortages. Discussions about who should cover what and at what rate. When should patients go to specialist. How do you get the general population to feel confident in their PCP because they’re not just GPs. There is nothing just about a GP. That’s a medical provider, someone who is more than capable at addressing a variety issues but specialists seem to be not only wanted by the general public they’re kind of pushing, purposefully or unconsciously, people towards certain fields while they’re in school, expensive school, long years of schooling for this stuff… You know what a lot of Americans don’t like… being told they need permission to see specialists.
I am fine with our candidates not willing or not able to discuss these complex issues in depth. Whether they can have these discussions or not won’t help the general public follow along. The fact the Demorats are trying to address it instead of kick the can or you know L bad, so me go destroy Obamacare approach like the Republicans do… fine.
But when someone starts talking about cutting salaries like we don’t already have shortages, or brags about Medicare, an insurance that doesn’t cover costs and actually doesn’t a cover a lot, and then starts attributing failures as some sort of fault of the communities or the hospitals administrative staff without knowing much about these communities, or about what the often community based hospital was trying to do and how it operated, then yeah I take issue with that. These conversations usually start with broad strokes like hey let’s cut costs and hey you get Medicare, and you get Medicare, and hey you, you in the back, Medicare for you too like it’s some sort of Orprah based winning, followed by some magpie nose dive, just for a millisecond into something specific and granular like hey that’s a failed community right so sucks to be them, and then zooms back out to ask why all these professional are getting paid like professionals in the USA instead of some other random ass country… come on, we can do better than that.
