Fee-For-Service American Health Care: You wait for appointment days and weeks later, arrive on time and wait, and wait, and wait in germ infested waiting room full of coughing, wheezing sick and contagious people. You’re finally called to the back, asked a few questions, then left in a 200 square foot room with the door closed under the promise “the doctor will be right in.” More waiting, counting minutes, then counting floor tiles, then focusing attention on memorizing anatomy charts on the wall, then waiting, waiting and more waiting. Then the doctor bursts in with “Hi, what brings you in today?” You explain for the third time why you’re there. Five minutes later you’re escorted to the exit clerk with a prescription in hand. You pay your copay. You are released to leave. You’re cured.
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