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Originally Posted by Noah930
Sounds like you should move to Qatar.
If you thick picking an oil for your air-cooled 911 was difficult, wait 'til you need to choose a medication for a serious medical ailment. One of the reasons why in America we have physicians as gate-keepers for medications is due to education and liability reasons. But hey, if pharmacists and individuals are willing to accept that responsibility, that's fantastic for everyone involved. I'd be all for it.
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Guess I struck a nerve; sorry. America's health care system is broke, on all sides. Do we have great doctors? Absolutely. That's why most foreign countries (that have money) pay to have their doctors trained here. As to your scenario...if that ever happened, they have great doctors and a good working system there.
Case in point: While in Qatar, I did something stupid and broke a few bones in my hand. Went to the doc, he sends me to the next room for Xrays, bada boom, bada bing. I'm in/out in a couple hours. Fast forward a few years to when I'm living back home in AZ. Fall off my roof (don't ask how), break my wrist. It's a Sunday, so I go to the ER, wait a few hours to be seen (and I live in a SMALL "city"), they toss on an Ace bandage and tell me to go to a regular doc on Monday--charge me my $100 copay, and a couple grand to my insurance. Monday rolls around, I go to my doc, pay his co-pay, pay the co-pay to the "specialist" who does my Xray, and paid another co-pay to someone else...I don't remember who. Another $100+ in co-pays now, not to mention what they're going to charge my insurance provider.
Do you seriously not see a problem with this system?