Medical Insanity

The ability of the American health industry to run up cost is astonishing.  Kadizzle needs a shot for his prostate cancer.  Seems like a simple matter.  No way.  The doctor in Bismarck wrote a prescription. It seemed simple. While in AZ Kadizzle could present the prescription to a doctor in AZ and get the shot.  Nope, before you can get the shot which actually any nurse should be able to administer you have to become a patient of a doctor in AZ.  You cannot just do this in one trip to the doctor.  You have to go first to be examined, which has already been done and paid for twice in Bismarck.  Next you have to make another appointment to come back to get the shot.  This will involve about three hundred miles of driving.

The whole situation is the result of the bizarre medical system in our country.  The insurance company will not pay for the shot if you get it one day early.  The medical records all have to be faxed.  In the year 2016 the United States still has the most archaic medical record system in the world.  A modern country would have a national computer record system.  Kadizzle could write pages about the trickery that goes on just so the right people make money off the misery of cancer.  The shot will cost $1,500 plus the extra cost of three needless doctor visits.  The shot can suppress cancer for two years, after that it is useless. However, my doctor told me some doctors prescribe the shot for five years because of the kickback they get.  The shot can have some side affects that are unpleasant.  In summary when you have a medical system driven by profit people suffer, and money is wasted.  Kadizzle is one hundred percent for national health care like every other civilized country has embraced.