Quantity over Quality Health Care

Quality care is receiving the medical attention patients deserve. Doctors are doctors for a reason. If doctors only cared about money, and not people’s health, they should have been businessmen. Primary care is the start to quality care, but most doctors just want to fit in as many patients as possible- more patients more money, but not more care. Primary care doctors should spend more than five minutes with their patients and provide a comprehensive exam. If patients can examine themselves, which soon patients must resort to because doctors aren’t caring for them, they wouldn’t go to a doctor and wouldn’t have to pay for it with their time and money. Most people without insurance suffer because of America’s profit driven system. I believe people who have quality care paid for quality care. This means, people who are not capable of paying such high fees suffer from low-mid income as well as poor health and health care, which include the majority of our population.

I think America spends enough on health care, but most of that is wasted to pay for expenses that don’t involve caring for one’s health. Since when did patients have to suffer from overtesting, medical errors, high administrative costs, hospital inefficiencies and other unnecessary areas? The only person that benefits from overtesting is the doctor, at the patients’ expense! The only thing the patients get out of their visit is an unnecessarily high bill. It is not the patients’ fault that doctors and hospitals cannot maintain their offices. It is also not the patients’ fault that doctors goofed. Hospitals are meant to be clean and doctors are meant to keep it clean. If doctors can ask the patients about their history, patients should be able to ask doctors about their own history, mainly about “did they wash their hands.” So why should patients have to suffer their consequences? It is the doctors that should suffer from their malpractice and their unnecessary costs, not the patients. If they spent half their energy to improve on their administration and inefficiencies as they do on improving their profit margin, patients can maybe receive what they are paying for- quality care.