Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Texas Doctors Experiment With Care, Payment Models

This past week I read an article from the Texas Tribune, "Texas Doctors Experiment With Care, Payment Models" In a suburb of Dallas, Tx there is a medical practice that is referred to as "The Galleria of Health Clinics." It offers medical care for a variety of needs including, pediatric care, diabetic care, OB/GYN, Dietitian, Cardiology, Chiropractic care, and much more. "..patients receive a year’s worth of wellness exams in a single visit, get their e-mails answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and have their mammogram or MRI results logged into their electronic medical record by the time they pull out of the parking lot."
This place sounds AMAZING, who could ask for anything more? It's like Health Care heaven! Why don't we have practices like these all across America? Answer is, Health Care Spending. By 2020 our country's medical expenses are believe to be around $4.6 trillion dollars, putting us deeper and deeper into the hole. Our country's health care spending's are ridiculous. In my opinion, like many others, we are where we are today because of medicaid being given to non-citizens. The government throws out billions of dollars to people who are in our country illegally, instead of giving it to citizens who were born here that need medical attention. It is unbelievably hard and expensive for a U.S. citizen to get medical insurance yet it is so easy for an immigrant to get free medical care. Now I LOVE my Mexicans, that's my culture, but I work at a Mexican restaurant and I mean DAMN. All my co-workers get Lone Star, WIC, Medicaid, you name it. Meanwhile I'm over here working super hard to pay my bills? If the Government stopped handing out so much money to non-citizens, we wouldn't be trillions short, and we would be able to have necessary places like this practice all over. The doctors at Kelsey-Seybold came to a rather smart solution to make the cost reasonable for patients, and that is by getting the groups of family physicians to share patients medical information electronically. It makes visits cheaper by being able to solely go to one place where you can be treated for any need. People don't understand how much easier and cheaper places like this could make our country's health spending's lower. However, we can't have places like this because the Government hands.out.too.much.M O N E Y

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