Health Care in the Lakes Region

[SIKSUKR]

I don't understand why this was titled healthcare in the lakes region, suggesting somehow what bbb encountered is unique here. What bbb posted is standard procedure anywhere you go.

[Lakesrider]

Oh I found all that out when I first came up here. I put a nail through two of my fingers with a nail gun working on the house. I tried for someone to look at it. Not one Dr. would look at me for two weeks. I wound up driving down to Nashua and going to the local health stop. $90 for an X-Ray and a Tetanus shot. Same day.

I too do not have a local Dr. in the area. If you remember I posted about getting pneumonia a couple years back. Cost me, well, the insurance company anyway, $8000.00 by going to Huggins ER. Thank the Lord I had insurance.

[Eagle]

Yup, healthcare is great in this country. My wife has advanced cancer (sarcoma) and is now on Temodar (a daily pill).

The cost for 30 pills? $9,000. Yes, great healthcare system.

[eillac@dow]

Originally Posted by Eagle

Yup, healthcare is great in this country. My wife has advanced cancer (sarcoma) and is now on Temodar (a daily pill).

The cost for 30 pills? $9,000. Yes, great healthcare system.

Oh Eagle, I am so very sorry. 30 pills for $9,000? It is just not right! I will say a prayer for both you and your wife.

Something has to be done about Healthcare.

My husband told me on Sunday that he was feeling a "rumbling" in his groin area (since Friday)...a day or two later his back began to bother him. Called his Dr. and they said they could see him in June. But if was a "real problem" for him to go to the local ER or Urgent Care at the hospital (he works at the Brigham & Womens in Boston). He went to Urgent Care today during work...was told ...probably just an infection that you are getting over. If it continues...contact your Dr. Hello! Isn't that what he did in the first place and they said June?

[swnoel]

Originally Posted by eillac@dow

Something has to be done about Healthcare.

My husband told me on Sunday that he was feeling a "rumbling" in his groin area (since Friday)...a day or two later his back began to bother him. Called his Dr. and they said they could see him in June. But if was a "real problem" for him to go to the local ER or Urgent Care at the hospital (he works at the Brigham & Womens in Boston). He went to Urgent Care today during work...was told ...probably just an infection that you are getting over. If it continues...contact your Dr. Hello! Isn't that what he did in the first place and they said June?

I can only assume the Messiah will wave his magical wand and all the problems with healthcare will be over.

I just heard a report that 55% of the patients at the ER, didn't need to be there.

This only creates a dangerous situation where those , really in need of treatment, will have to wait because mommy has Johnny seeing the ER Doctor for a runny nose.

Worried that June is not soon enough ... wait till 30 million more show up at the Doctors with runny noses, cause it's free and suddenly inundates heathcare with millions that don't need to be there.

Would it be better, if your husband gets to see the Doctor in June 2015...

There are only so many Doctors and most are over loaded with patients already...

How bout Wal Green, not filling prescriptions for Medicare(the Government) beneficeries because the Government has decided they'll only pay them so much... which by the way is lower than it costs Wal Green.

You think we have a problem now... you ain't seen nothin yet!

[Argie's Wife]

Originally Posted by swnoel

I just heard a report that 55% of the patients at the ER, didn't need to be there.

This only creates a dangerous situation where those , really in need of treatment, will have to wait because mommy has Johnny seeing the ER Doctor for a runny nose.

Worried that June is not soon enough ... wait till 30 million more show up at the Doctors with runny noses, cause it's free and suddenly inundates heathcare with millions that don't need to be there.

Uh, generally the people who are at the ER who don't really need to be there are the ones who don't have a primary care physician. It's not over-anxious mothers as much as it's people who use the ER more like a clinic. The real need is a "doc in the box", as we called them in the South - a bandaid and aspirin type place. Somewhere that people can go when they stepped on a rusty nail and need a tetanus shot or got a killer splinter from the docks when they were swimming.

[tis]

I totally agree. We need walk in clinics in the Lakes Region. That is one of the things I believe will safe a lot of money for our health care system. People should not have to use them as their primary care physician.
Also being able to buy insurance from state to state, as they have talked about, and torte reform. THat is what we need for health care reform, not this ridiculous bill that is being forced upon us which includes everything from pell grants to land grants and which is tax, tax tax for four years before it even goes into effect. What a joke.

[fatlazyless]

One darned good reason why my parents are still alive at ages 93 and 95 is because they get 100% health insurance, down to the very last penny, and their bills have run into $100,000 & $100,000's, all courtesy of someone else. Between Medicare and Tri-Care (U.S. Navy), they definately hit the lottery for all health insurance coverage.

......anchors away....full speed ahead...and damn those health insurance torpedos...

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Here's a tip....if you catch a bad case of the flu, and have a fever, sore throat, and start coughing up an endless stream of gooey yellow phlegm and need to get some antibiotic pills like ampicillin 500-mg to cure the fever and bust up that miserable phlegm....in the Plymouth NH area...and HAVE NO INSURANCE...suggest you drive right past the Speare Hospital emergency room and take a left-turn, go way up the high hill, just before the Plymouth Wal-Mart... and go visit Mid State Health to get examined by an A.R.N.P. on-duty medic, who can examine & proscribe for less than an M.D., and probably do it with a better attitude. ...

Mid State Health has an almost invisible sign down by Route 25.......their underwhelming sign board says .....'The Health Place'...

[BroadHopper]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

Here's a tip....if you catch a bad case of the flu, and have a fever, sore throat, and start coughing up an endless stream of gooey yellow phlegm and need to get some antibiotic pills like ampicillin 500-mg to cure the fever and the phlegm....in the Plymouth NH area...and HAVE NO INSURANCE...suggest you drive right past the Speare Hospital emergency room and take a left-turn, way up the high hill, just before the Plymouth Wal-Mart... and go visit Mid State Health to get examined by an A.R.N.P. on-duty medic, who can examine & proscribe for less than an M.D., and probably do it with a better attitude. ...

Mid State Health has an almost invisible sign down by Route 25.......their underwhelming sign board says .....'The Health Place'...

I am unemployed with no health coverage. I contacted a flu/virus last january and I got worst. Luckily I was in NC visiting my sister as NC has free state sponsored clinics for the unemployed, no insurance folks. Had an MD check me out and prescription meds at no cost. Got to count my blessings.

As for LRGH, I shattered my humerous into 10 pieces two winters ago. The emergency clinic at LRGH couldn't get an orthopedic to look at my arm so they put me in a remporary cast/sling. After calling the orthopedics in Laconia/Gilford that weekend, it seems they were all attending a frigging wedding in the Carribeans that weekend. I got an appointment that Monday and it was in Manchester. Lucky me, Dr Wang is the best of the best according to NH magazine and other sites on the website. Again my blessings steer me away from LRGH. Living in Laconia I heard a number of horror stories about that hospital and the doctors that are connected to it. I see a number of malpractice/lawsuit on the hospital in the papers. I will definitely go elsewhere.

[SIKSUKR]

The Dems just fixed all the problems with healthcare. You think it was bad before? Get ready because the government always does a much better job than the private sector

[WinnDixie]

No more walk in clinic at Laconia Clinic? I remember one there (but quite a few years ago, will admit). Used it for sinus infections and the like--that I needed care for that day-- my insurance did pay, too. Of course, "that was then; this is now"!

We have several of those "doc in the box" places that AW refers to down here. Now on Medicare and a supplement; and I have gone there a couple of times on a Sunday AM for minor stuff that I need looking at right then. My insurance has paid, too. We have a regular physician, but Sunday AM is not a time you'll get to contact him. This option beats the ER, for sure, as long as it isn't an actual emergency. I do not know how expensive it is without any insurance...would think not as bad as an ER, but that's a guess. I don't remember the exact amount I was charged, but didn't think it way out of line.

[Argie's Wife]

Originally Posted by WinnDixie

No more walk in clinic at Laconia Clinic? I remember one there (but quite a few years ago, will admit). Used it for sinus infections and the like--that I needed care for that day-- my insurance did pay, too. Of course, "that was then; this is now"!

We have several of those "doc in the box" places that AW refers to down here. Now on Medicare and a supplement; and I have gone there a couple of times on a Sunday AM for minor stuff that I need looking at right then. My insurance has paid, too. We have a regular physician, but Sunday AM is not a time you'll get to contact him. This option beats the ER, for sure, as long as it isn't an actual emergency. I do not know how expensive it is without any insurance...would think not as bad as an ER, but that's a guess. I don't remember the exact amount I was charged, but didn't think it way out of line.

Nope. You have to call ahead. They do have a lot of same-day appointments (usually) but you have to call early. Plan accordingly.

[tis]

Originally Posted by SIKSUKR

The Dems just fixed all the problems with healthcare. You think it was bad before? Get ready because the government always does a much better job than the private sector

I couldn't agree with you more, Sik. I don't know what this country is coming to. We can't afford Medicare so let's add another health program we can't afford. I wonder if the NH Atty. General will file a lawsuit as 7 other states are.

[Lakegeezer]

Originally Posted by SIKSUKR

The Dems just fixed all the problems with healthcare. You think it was bad before? Get ready because the government always does a much better job than the private sector

well, the FAA comes to mind. I hope and believe you are wrong. The feds can mandate tech advantages the insurance folks would not. The party of no may delay the improvements, but the health of the lakes region population will improve due to the changes.

[fatlazyless]

There may be some unforeseen consequences that unwind as time goes by. For example, having 305-million American all covered by some form of insurance will probably drive the demand for easy access, low-cost, walk-in health checks where people can be seen by a medical person in a retail store. Stores like CVS, Walgreen, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and other stores could coordinate with federal health policy and come up with some low cost, entry level venues that would attract people with lower level medical ailments like a runny nose /sore throat.

Social Security - 1936.....Medicare - 1965.....and health insurance - 2010.

Best thing to happen since chocolate-chip ice cream was invented!

[swnoel]

It's shameful that so many people today could care less about our children, grandchildren , and great grandchildren.

You'd rather live your lifestyle today and shackle our childrens future.... who do you think will have to pay for this?

We're already so far in debt we can't get out of what we already have!

Shame... shame to all the self centered people that have decided they want something for nothing.

We're all about to find out there's nothing for free, you either take it or steal it from someone else.

Shame shame on all of you that think this is the best thing for this country.

But then again, it has now become policy, it's politically correct to vilify those that work hard and pay for what they have.

[tis]

Wow, swnoel. What a great post. I wish I could have written it that well!

[SIKSUKR]

Originally Posted by swnoel

It's shameful that so many people today could care less about our children, grandchildren , and great grandchildren.

You'd rather live your lifestyle today and shackle our childrens future.... who do you think will have to pay for this?

We're already so far in debt we can't get out of what we already have!

Shame... shame to all the self centered people that have decided they want something for nothing.

We're all about to find out there's nothing for free, you either take it or steal it from someone else.

Shame shame on all of you that think this is the best thing for this country.

But then again, it has now become policy, it's politically correct to vilify those that work hard and pay for what they have.

This is where I really need the thanks button.Well stated.

[BroadHopper]

Originally Posted by swnoel

It's shameful that so many people today could care less about our children, grandchildren , and great grandchildren.

You'd rather live your lifestyle today and shackle our childrens future.... who do you think will have to pay for this?

We're already so far in debt we can't get out of what we already have!

Shame... shame to all the self centered people that have decided they want something for nothing.

We're all about to find out there's nothing for free, you either take it or steal it from someone else.

Shame shame on all of you that think this is the best thing for this country.

But then again, it has now become policy, it's politically correct to vilify those that work hard and pay for what they have.

This where you realize polititicians are very self centered.

[Lucky1]

Originally Posted by fatlazyless

One darned good reason why my parents are still alive at ages 93 and 95 is because they get 100% health insurance, down to the very last penny, and their bills have run into $100,000 & $100,000's, all courtesy of someone else. Between Medicare and Tri-Care (U.S. Navy), they definately hit the lottery for all health insurance coverage.

......anchors away....full speed ahead...and damn those health insurance torpedos...

..............

Here's a tip....if you catch a bad case of the flu, and have a fever, sore throat, and start coughing up an endless stream of gooey yellow phlegm and need to get some antibiotic pills like ampicillin 500-mg to cure the fever and bust up that miserable phlegm....in the Plymouth NH area...and HAVE NO INSURANCE...suggest you drive right past the Speare Hospital emergency room and take a left-turn, go way up the high hill, just before the Plymouth Wal-Mart... and go visit Mid State Health to get examined by an A.R.N.P. on-duty medic, who can examine & proscribe for less than an M.D., and probably do it with a better attitude. ...

Mid State Health has an almost invisible sign down by Route 25.......their underwhelming sign board says .....'The Health Place'...

Thanks. This is a good tip. I will be sure and look for it on my next time at the Plymouth, Walmart and then know where it is. I have health insurance. Not always easy to get a doctor here and most of mine are elsewhere.
Rain today but no news on Ice Out even though there were boaters all weekend enjoying the 70 degree weather.