http://www.lifeofaninvestor.com/health-and-exercise/a-healthcare-lesson-from-our-neighbor-to-the-north/ My journey through stock, real estate and life investing Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:29:40 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.lifeofaninvestor.com/health-and-exercise/a-healthcare-lesson-from-our-neighbor-to-the-north/comment-page-1/#comment-1150 Ken Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:41:40 +0000 http://lifeofaninvestor.com/?p=272#comment-1150 Right on! To be fair, there are lots of folks who complain about long waits at US ERs. However, because these hospitals still have incentive to entice patients to seek treatment in their facilities you see hospitals advertising a 30 minute guarantee, where you'll see a physician or nurse practitioner in less than a half hour. Even hospitals that don't offer that guarantee are constantly looking at how to eliminate ER waits because they realize it is a major dissatisfier. If you take the free market out of healthcare, would that be the case? Right on! To be fair, there are lots of folks who complain about long waits at US ERs. However, because these hospitals still have incentive to entice patients to seek treatment in their facilities you see hospitals advertising a 30 minute guarantee, where you’ll see a physician or nurse practitioner in less than a half hour. Even hospitals that don’t offer that guarantee are constantly looking at how to eliminate ER waits because they realize it is a major dissatisfier. If you take the free market out of healthcare, would that be the case?

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