Health care in the US has gone down the toilet.

[Mike]

It can't be as bad as the health care in England,
the hospitals here cannot accommodate patients,
I don't know if it is shortage of staff, or of space,
I think that it is staff.
I know that there are many empty wards, yet they
are treating people in hospital corridors, taking
away any dignity that they have left.

These are public corridors, that the public use.

Mike.

 

[debodun]

And the crap gets deeper. I'm starting to see a pattern developing. Just yesterday, I broke my glasses. Grabbed my back up ones. Figured this was good timing as it was time for my yearly eye exam. Good news... my vision hasn't changed at all. So, I ask them to go ahead and make me another pair of glasses.

No can do is the reply. First, you must go to these referrals and have more tests done. If my vision hasn't changed, why can't you just get a second pair of glasses? Well, this led me on a search to find another eye glass place somewhere nearby. Well... surprise, surprise,every one of them is part of a system called "eyecare partners"... which just happens to belong to a... SURPRISE... private equity firm. Shit.......

Oh, the old "doctor-go-round".