Questions,
1)What are the strengths of our health care system?
The experience of the doctors and nurses and the experience of the system itself. Also, the medical advancements that have been made make our system strong.
2)What are the weaknesses of our healthcare system?
People not being able to access it.
Not everything is covered by health insurance, there co-payments and premiums are a bit high.
Some great opportunities aren't an option for some people because of their income level.
3)Are there are any parts of our healthcare system that is failing?
It isn't so much the care that is failing but the access and coverage is hurt.
4) What can you think of that should be changed in the healthcare system?
The delivery of the care should be changed.
The insurance companies need to give more bang for the buck.
///Since I mentioned that my blog was about Socialized Medicine, Mrs. Waltz put her opinion of it in here, she believes that it isn't the American way to do things. She believes there is no money in Socialized Medicine and people would stay away from it because of that, therefor people wouldn't be as inclined to go into the business. She believes that since we will always have to take care of people, so people will always be kept cared of. She has a very conservative view on the matter.
5) Does everyone have adequate access to proper healthcare?
In short, no.
Many needs aren't meant.
She mentioned that distant is a huge factor, especially in places like rural Maine because of people needing to travel to physical therapy but it would take around 2 hours. That becomes a major problem when you are low-income.
6)If no, why?
The way people live their life. Some people only go to the doctors or hospital when they are having a crisis.
Sometimes, doctors fill-up their time slots in a day or week, so they can't see people at all.
7) What can be changed do you think to fix that?
The client needs to be more educated.
To fix the problem of rural areas, a nurse practitioner could work in that area and see to the needs of that area, if it is too small to draw a doctor.
Stop with unnecessary test and procedures. Do one test and continue on from there.
8) Do we provide healthcare to people who can't provide their own?
Yes but it what happen is that they have to pay much more because they wait till they need to visit the emergency room.
People wait till it's bad that they see a care provider and they need to pay more because of that.
9)Is there enough education about prevention?
NO!!
It's there but not enough.
We as a culture are very disease-orientated, not prevention-oriented.
Example is dental care, you go twice a year and rarely get dental problems. You used to just go to the dentist when you had pain in your teeth.
10)Do we as a culture overuse healthcare?
Sometimes yes.
Before insurance, it was expensive, so people didn't go as much. Then insurance co-pays came along and you could go to the doctors for just five dollars or so, so we began to just go because it was cheap.
People overuse it because people can't miss work. They think they will lose their job. We have based a lot of fear into missing school and work, so we pop a lot of pills to get better.
11) (I found this question irrelevant after the fact, so I am taking it out)
12)Do you high school kids get enough care?
No, they don't go to the doctors office enough.
They only go when they are sick.
There is plan till they are 12 years old then they stop going. Only kids who play sports go for a physical.
Teenagers generally are pretty healthy, so there's really no reason to go and spend the money.
13) As a nurse, do you have kids and families who use you as their main healthcare provider? Do they use you for stuff they should go to a doctors office for?
Yes but they try to get them to go to a doctors office.
14) What do you think of the President bringing back stem cell research?
It's good.
Being able to giving someone a pancreas so they can live their life without diabetes is fantastic.
