I clicked on the link but I don't see where Dick Morris is getting his info.

 

Anyone?

 

Dick Morris must have misunderstood this letter from the AMA where they detail ways to improve healthcare. One of the issues is over use of certain practices or prescriptions. The letter says that in certain areas (those mentioned by Dick Morris) the medical profession can improve by not using these procedures as much as they have in the past.

 

http://www.politico.com/static/PPM118_090601_letter.html#page=14

 

Go to page 14.

I haven't seen "purely" being proposed.

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN3143203520080331?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&rpc=22&sp=true

 

That survey is suspect since the lead author is a member of "Physicians for a National Health Program".

 

http://www.pnhp.org/stateactions/indiana/

Twenty five years ago when I graduated from pharmacy school I actually had time to spend with my customers,whether it be explaining their medication or just discussing sports,the news or life in general with them. Since the advent of Insurance and Medicare beurocracy,I now spend that time on the phone with their insurance company or medicare part D provider trying to get their medicine covered or solving a copay issue. This is after a phone call to their doctor to explain to them that the drug is either not covered or the copay is too high.If the doctor decides to change the medication to somthing similar that is covered or with a lower copay,then no problem. If not,then he has to fill out a form,fax it to me and I make the phone calls.

In a typical 9 hour day,I spend an average of 1 and 1/2 hours on the phone doing just this. While my customers wait for me to fill their prescriptions and coucil them on their uses and side effects. I have a tech who also does this,so if you figure us both in,we spend about 3 hours on the phone.

I had hoped to do this full time for another 5 years,but if it gets any worse that it is now,I may give this profession up and do something else. I feel sorry for any one just getting out of Pharmacy school.

Edited June 18, 200917 yr by owsleyking
grammatical

Compared to the 20 OECD countries reporting MRI data for the latest year comparable data were available, Canada ranked 12th, reporting 5.5 MRI scanners per million people. Japan and the U.S. had the highest number, with 35.3 and 27.0 per million, respectively. The median was 6.7. Canada ranked 15th among the 21 OECD countries reporting data on CT scanners, with 11.3 per million population. Japan and the U.S. had the highest number again, at 92.6 and 32.0 per million, respectively. The median was 14.0.

Notice where the countries with socialized medicine fall. (France, Canada, UK)

Note to self: Don't move to Mexico.