The Wait Goes On
It’s Not Just ER Patients These Days. The Entire Healthcare System Is in Limbo.
It used to be that long lines in the emergency room were the worst part of waiting for American healthcare. Now we’re waiting for everything: health insurance to be available and affordable; primary care physicians to increase in number; politicians to stop bickering long enough to make some decisions about physician fees in Medicare; Supreme Court justices to decide whether Congress is allowed to do what it did in the Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act.
You remember that goal of comprehensive reform? Cover everybody, improve the quality of healthcare services, …
