The first doctor I saw disliked me intensely because I wanted answers and felt that if I had medical questions and concerns, I should be able to make an appointment to see the doctor and discuss the problems. His perspective was that he was to see me every three months unless I had an emergency. He refused further treatment and told me to get another physician from my HMO Plan. It was then that I began to really investigate what present-day American health care is all about, and I was again shocked and amazed. The doctors in Medicare and other HMO groups are rewarded for holding down costs, which often results in less than adequate care.
Doctors are abrupt with patients.
The government intervened to make health care affordable and instead, it has become less affordable than ever. The government's intervention fed the greed instinct of the health care providers and sent costs soaring. The attorneys fueled the cost problem with added litigation. Congress began seeing the HMO as a way to cut costs, but instead, it has cut the level of care for those who must use the HMO as opposed to the private payee or covered insurance programs of the past. The only area of agreement I have found in my research on health care in America is that it's a mess and likely to get worse.