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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
The system obviously needs work, but it also needs money.
Not sure if you've had to visit an ER or get a new family doctor lately, but the system is pretty much broken, especially compared to how it was just 20 years ago. Even with supposedly 'better' demographics, increasing population equals increased demand. Just do whatever it takes to fix it.
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Throwing money at it does nothing except to burn that money.
There are no magic answers because the problem is complex, from they way family doctors work as private businesses on a piecework compensation scheme and not as employees of those who are paying them, to the way referrals and test requisitions are handed out without oversight. Everything is inefficient to the Nth degree. Those who have found loopholes in the system are raking in the dough,
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