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system up more than it is? Yesterday I took my 90 year old mother to the mall for some shopping. After about an hour she comes to where we were to meet up. She said she had a medical problem and she wanted to go see her doctor. So I take her to her doctors office, it turned out he wasn't in. The receptionist said she we would have to see another doctor at an urgent care center on the other side of town. I take her to the urgent care center. Upon arriving at the urgent care center first she was asked for an insurance card, then they give us about 5 pages of papers to sign and fill out. They wanted to know my mothers medical history, she has probably been in the hospital at least 20 times, in a nursing home 4 times, had about 8 operations and taking about a dozen prescriptions. Just how in the hell is a 90 year old women supposed to remember her medical history and dates and all her medications? We waited 3 hours in the waiting room before she was called back to the examining rooms. About 45 minutes after she went back to the examining room a PA calls me back and tells me the doctor wasn't there today and that she had examined her. She tells me basically there was really not much she could do since she didn't have access to her medical records and wasn't sure what medications she was on. The PA said if she had any more problems take her to the emergency room (the emergency room always takes a minimum of about 12 hours to get in and out of). Anyway here's the rest of the story. Today I see my Republican Faux News junkie neighbor and what is she all upset about? She is worried about the (government) having a data base with your medical records. I told her what had happened the day before and said wouldn't it have been better if the PA was able to access my mothers medical files? I said what if you are out of town and have to go to an emergency room wouldn't it be better if they could just look up your history on line? After explaining that to her I think she actually agreed that it was a good idea. These people listen to Limbaugh and Faux and don't even think about what they are saying. It is starting to look to me like the right-wing nuts and the insurance industry are going to kill health care again just like in 1992.
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