Barry Baines
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Their doctor is the emergency room or the urgent care clinic, which generally tends to be more expensive than if you have an appointment with your doctor.
Their doctor is the emergency room or the urgent care clinic, which generally tends to be more expensive than if you have an appointment with your doctor.
Yeah, those are clearly, there are a lot of access things, but again, that's a whole different issue. That has to be with,
Yeah, those are clearly, there are a lot of access things, but again, that's a whole different issue. That has to be with,
where we're at with with shortages in our health care system from a provider perspective there's a real shortage of primary care providers in terms of internists family physicians um pediatricians just in in general and again i don't i don't want to be going down the rabbit hole for why that is uh but we have um a lot of doctors are You know, doctors and nurses.
where we're at with with shortages in our health care system from a provider perspective there's a real shortage of primary care providers in terms of internists family physicians um pediatricians just in in general and again i don't i don't want to be going down the rabbit hole for why that is uh but we have um a lot of doctors are You know, doctors and nurses.
Then we had COVID, which just totally like screwed everything up for just about just about everybody. And so all those kind of things, again, there there are issues that they relate to insurance. OK, but that's not a health and that's not the health insurance complication we have.
Then we had COVID, which just totally like screwed everything up for just about just about everybody. And so all those kind of things, again, there there are issues that they relate to insurance. OK, but that's not a health and that's not the health insurance complication we have.
Once you get insurance, then you have this other bag, you know, can of worms, you know, like, you know, like you, you know, talked about where, well, you want to get in for, you know, for your annual exam and you have to wait, you know, months and months and months and months, you know. although I know, and I, I've encountered the same thing.
Once you get insurance, then you have this other bag, you know, can of worms, you know, like, you know, like you, you know, talked about where, well, you want to get in for, you know, for your annual exam and you have to wait, you know, months and months and months and months, you know. although I know, and I, I've encountered the same thing.
And, uh, then they also say, but if you'd like to be on a waiting list, cause people cancel and you have flexibility, uh, you know, you can get in a lot, a lot, a lot sooner. So, right.
And, uh, then they also say, but if you'd like to be on a waiting list, cause people cancel and you have flexibility, uh, you know, you can get in a lot, a lot, a lot sooner. So, right.
Yeah, that was the hallmark of the Johnson administration. Johnson administration. It was like in the 60s. In the 1960s. Yeah. There had been, you know, historically multiple attempts to get Medicare. you know, Medicare, a Medicare type program. And I think even with, with FDR, you know, trying to, trying to do that. So that's where, but that was the hallmark of, you know, of where Medicare.
Yeah, that was the hallmark of the Johnson administration. Johnson administration. It was like in the 60s. In the 1960s. Yeah. There had been, you know, historically multiple attempts to get Medicare. you know, Medicare, a Medicare type program. And I think even with, with FDR, you know, trying to, trying to do that. So that's where, but that was the hallmark of, you know, of where Medicare.
Actually, I know a little bit about that. And what it relates to was some tax treatment. And this was tax laws that allowed companies to offer health insurance benefits to their employees and it wouldn't be counted like as income.
Actually, I know a little bit about that. And what it relates to was some tax treatment. And this was tax laws that allowed companies to offer health insurance benefits to their employees and it wouldn't be counted like as income.