4 Health Reform Changes to Expect at Your Doctor's Office

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people will not run to the Doc cause they have health insurance ,that is not true some people feel that not every one should have health care ,but we will all benfit,if there TB and other disease , do you want these people walking around ,spreading to your family ,Greed is what trying to stop health care we in America has to wake up if we work all of us ,we can get the cost of healthcare down.

Bernadette Sampson of NY 12:20PM July 28, 2012

Forget the so called team approach. It is patheti to even refer to it as "team". Yes, you get delegated to incompetent admins who can not even speak or understand English. Abunch of Drama Queens from nurses to assistants who are looking annoyed all the time. They make you feel that they are doing you a favor to see you. They forget that besides a patient you are also the customer. They bitch and moan an groan and if you say pip they will give the next appointment in two years!!! Or you have these primadonas (doctors) only speaking with you if you are having a heart attack. Massachusetts is the worse. Try Mass General - a great hospital that has already started to apply the new rules. Try the Bulfinch Medical Group. Great doctors - the triage, the admins, especially the office managers are really cranky!!!!

Natasha of MA 9:56PM July 27, 2012

We patients will fight it to th point that any doctor does not make themselves available will not be getting our business. I am sick and tired of doctors who tell you that unless you explain to a nurse or the triage what your problem is you can not speak with the doctor. I am in MA and going through hell to get to speak to a doctor. And when you see them they talk to you and type on a freaking computer! 15 minute appointments with freaking specialists and 30 minute if it is your physical. And they freaking look at the clock all the time. My hairdresser spents more time with me than my doctor! And the cost of it keeps climbing anyway! They charge more and you get less. Oh, forget that you have to wait for months to get freaking appointments. Welcome to Obama Care!!!!

Natasha of MA 9:40PM July 27, 2012

I am forced to go see a Dr. every 30 days, and what I see is government interference making things worse for doctors and patients. More paperwork for doctors and more trouble for patients. Our government insists in treating me like a criminal, and my doctor like a secretary who has nothing better to do than fill out paperwork to satisfy some bureaucrat. It has not made my care better, and it has made the doctor's job much less fulfilling. It would be much better if government could just stay out of the doctor/patient relationship.

Gypsyman of KY 8:10PM July 09, 2012

Who is deciding how much "healthcare" is needed? The doctor? Panel of non doctors? ????

Delores Healey of TN 12:49PM June 04, 2012

Who is deciding how much "healthcare" is needed? The doctor? Panel of non doctors? ????

Delores Healey of TN 12:48PM June 04, 2012

Who is deciding how much "healthcare" is needed? The doctor? Panel of non doctors? ????

Delores Healey of TN 12:47PM June 04, 2012

I have met the "team" approach and find it amazingly unimpressive. There is no "team", just passing patients off to less qualified persons and spreading the doctor around the office more. There is no savings on the cost for the patient, they get charged the same rate whether they see a doctor or a PA. Frankly, most PA's aren't a doctor if they were they would have gone to medical school.
Patients are frustrated that doctors refer them to surgeons and want to see them in a follow-up appointment only to find a stranger (PA) who says "Oh, I guess you are seeing me today. Why are you here?" Looks very confused, reads the chart, and says..."I guess we can do some blood work since you are here. You really don't know WHY the doctor wanted to see you after surgery? I guess I'll have to ask before you come back to hear your test results."
So much for saving money. Order unnecessary tests, wasted office visit, and anticipating another wasted visit to get the reults of a test because the office won't give them to you unless you come in for an appointment. If people actually think this is improving the quality of care I hate to find out what they received before.

MT of TX 5:39AM March 27, 2012

The so-called health care reform act has done nothing but push medical professionals out of medicine sooner, make wait times longer and drive up the cost of health care. The number of doctors taking Medicare patients is going DOWN, not up, because of Obamacare. Why? The added government bureaucracy makes it harder for already overworked doctors to deal with the HHS red tape. It's easier just to shut down than deal with more red tape.
As far as medical records being digitized and organized more efficiently, the best way to do that is through private, profit-driven competition. The federal government's track record is lousy when it comes to efficiency and effectiveness. The post office and the IRS are two examples.
Speaking of the post office, get used to waiting much longer for MRIs, tests, and other things necessary to accurately diagnose all kinds of conditions. Another example is the Obamacare mandate that breast cancer screenings only be done on women once they reach age 50. This goes against what Susan G. Komen's website recommends and, if not changed, this will kill millions of women in their 30s and 40s.
The article falsely suggests that prevention, teamwork and medical record efficiency were alien concepts before Obamacare came along. Unless Obamacare is repealed or struck down, this blatantly unconstitutional law will turn the greatest health care system in the world into one of the worst. The point of this law was not to fix health care, but to have one party control of healthcare that would eventually lead to a single-payer system.
See the attached link for example after example of the failure of socialized medicine. http://www.biggovhealth.org/

John of OH 9:20PM March 19, 2012

Thank you for this information. I really hope that these changes help to bring down the cost of health care for everyone! This Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute seems like a great idea, again fingers crossed that it works. We have to do something different than we are doing today~ I blogged about these changes http://www.comparehealthrates.com/blog/2012/02/health-care-reform-changes-affect-doctors-visits/

Healthy Leigh of OH 2:01PM February 17, 2012