{"id":5300,"date":"2016-09-20T18:09:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=5300"},"modified":"2016-09-20T18:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T23:09:46","slug":"the-candidates-health-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/09\/20\/the-candidates-health-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Candidates\u2019 Health, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to medical providers<\/a>, a reader has a question:<\/p>\n

What is this “relationship” with a doctor of which your friend speaks? That only happens in my dreams. Nobody but the lucky or the rich can afford such a thing today with health insurers regularly stirring the pot, and making each visit more expensive and less productive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I cannot speak for them, I think it’s clearly an idealization. As a personal anecdote, I typically get an hour with my G.P. at my annual checkup, a long conversation, a few jokes – although we do clip right along. That said, I know my Arts Editor has a far different – and more negative – experience.<\/p>\n

So I’m tempted to suggest that as our medical experience, as it were, reaches a breaking point and we consider moving farther along the single-payer solution, the situation may ease and once again have real human interactions with our medical providers.<\/p>\n

Yet, it occurs to me to wonder – if everyone’s covered, do we have enough doctors, or at least G.P.s, to achieve the reader’s ideal – or are we so undermanned that what we see today is of necessity, not greed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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