...tales from ObamaCare: Its going to be one part of a complex part of the health care system, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the architects of Obamacare, told Fox Newss Bill OReilly Tuesday night. So if your kid has a sore throat and you want to find out if its strep throat, or your kid has what appears to be an ear infection and you want to find out if its otitis media -- you really dont need to go to the pediatrician. You can go to these clinics. Well, you dont need a doctor for every part of your health care, Emanuel responded. You dont need a doctor, OReilly echoed. If I want a strep throat diagnosis, I dont want Lenny who just came out of the community college... Excuse me, but those are nurse practitioners -- its not Lenny out of a community college, Emanuel said. And it is just putting a swab back there and getting a strep throat assessment. Emanuel said electronic health records make it possible for the clinic to send the diagnosis to a patients primary physician. Are you worried? OReilly asked. Say you had VD, STD -- Im sure you dont. Please, dont insult me, Emanuel replied. Okay...doc...hmmm. Here are 2 additional stories, the first illustrating that at least 10% of the public wouldnt be able to recognize if they were sick enough to go to the clinic in the first place. The second, proof that Lenny the nurse practitioner can get it wrong. Anyone feeling as confident of the Bronze plan option as our President prescriber?
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:51:39 +0000
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