If Air Travel worked like Health Care

[quote name='HotShotX']http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J67xJKpB6c&feature=player_embedded

Watch, and post your reaction.

~HotShotX[/QUOTE]

Some great points are made, but some of the assumed solutions are scary as well. I mean, would you really want/trust that airhead answering the phone to know every single thing about your personal health history, every disease or problem you've ever had over the course of your entire life? How about if insurance companies, managed care companies, or god forbid the government had access to your entire health record and treatment history? Because that is one of the main cruxes of what this video is attacking.

Thankfully air travel is not as important as health care.
 
[quote name='JolietJake']They basically do as it is. It's amazing how much information insurance companies can pull up about you.[/QUOTE]

Pretty much. Regardless of who you're with, the person paying for your care is going to know:

Your Name
Your Treatment
and why you're getting it.

Whether it's on paper or online really only determines how long it's going to take, and how easy the records are to confuse and/or lose.

The makers of the video don't really take a stand on health care reform overall, but they definitely seem to want to make a push for digitizing medical records into a central hub for anyone you approve (doctors and insurance companies) to view without filling out the same paperwork everytime you see someone new.

~HotShotX
 
Not just that, i mean things like prescription history too, they can find out about everything you've taken, even before you were with them.
 
The Republican view is that Air Travel is a privilege, not a right. Just like Health Care.

For once I would agree with them that Air Travel is a privilege.
 
[quote name='Ruined']Some great points are made, but some of the assumed solutions are scary as well. I mean, would you really want/trust that airhead answering the phone to know every single thing about your personal health history, every disease or problem you've ever had over the course of your entire life? How about if insurance companies, managed care companies, or god forbid the government had access to your entire health record and treatment history? Because that is one of the main cruxes of what this video is attacking.

Thankfully air travel is not as important as health care.[/QUOTE]

Too bad those tech wizards haven't thought of some way of tracking who has access to sensitive information and what information they access.

Just think - not only could you digitize health records, you could also commission agencies to keep a central digitized record of equally sensitive information such as financial records and criminal records.
 
wait.. so he wants healthcare to be sold like travel? he wants to 'buy one ticket to his destination instead of all these separate procedures' does he mean like "hey doctor I'm sick cure me for $500" because that's fucked, separate procedures are necessary in healthcare, patients don't say "hey doc gimmie a triple bypass" like travelers say "nonstop to LA please"
 
[quote name='Koggit']wait.. so he wants healthcare to be sold like travel? he wants to 'buy one ticket to his destination instead of all these separate procedures' does he mean like "hey doctor I'm sick cure me for $500" because that's fucked, separate procedures are necessary in healthcare, patients don't say "hey doc gimmie a triple bypass" like travelers say "nonstop to LA please"[/QUOTE]

The video was a parody on how air travel might look if it was sold as how health care currently is in regards to record keeping and communicating patient information efficiently.

In regards to your comments, yes, separate procedures are necessary in healthcare, but every time the patient sees a new provider or is referred for a new procedure, they have to either start from square one on paperwork, evaluations, and approvals from insurance, at each office, or carry their entire medical records on them in physical form and pray that everything is in order.

The idea (which is proposed in the reform bills) is to digitize a patient's records so that they can be accessed on a universal share by any licensed provider they see, wherever they are. The only paperwork a patient will need to do when they see a new provider for the first time is an "access approval" form.

~HotShotX
 
I'm curious as to how often normal people change doctors versus fly.

I haven't been on a plane in ten years and, outside of urgent care facilities, we've changed Caitlyn's doctor three times, The Boy's twice, MoC has been to three different doctors and I broke down and got a primary physician just to track my health and, eventually, my PSA.

I don't see us getting different doctors for another 5-10 years.
 
[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']I'm curious as to how often normal people change doctors versus fly.

I haven't been on a plane in ten years and, outside of urgent care facilities, we've changed Caitlyn's doctor three times, The Boy's twice, MoC has been to three different doctors and I broke down and got a primary physician just to track my health and, eventually, my PSA.

I don't see us getting different doctors for another 5-10 years.[/QUOTE]

Most people don't change their Primary Care Physician much, if at all. However, they may see a multitude of "specialists" over the course of their lives.

~HotShotX
 
Going to see a specialist is the pits, the wait for an appointment is always so outrageous. I had a mole on my back that I wanted to have looked at, and when I called the Dermatologist in the middle of December and was told that they were booking appointments for the end of February. By that point, the mole would probably either be gone, or I'd have stage 4 melanoma and be a goner, so what the fuck is the point?
 
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