Wait times for doctor’s appointments at all-time high

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  • Опубликовано: 26 апр 2024
  • In the nation’s 15 largest cities, it takes nearly a month to see a new physician or heart doctor, and more than a month to see an OB/GYN. For some specialists, the wait is even longer. NBC News’ Dana Griffin has more on why wait times are surging and speaks with one doctor who says the situation is a crisis.
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Комментарии • 57

  • @christinemiller7238
    @christinemiller7238 23 дня назад +4

    This is not ok. A year out for some appointments, six months for others. I have been told to go to urgent care if I want to see someone. It needs to be fixed.

    • @SUGAR_XYLER
      @SUGAR_XYLER 23 дня назад

      I can see a doctor the same week I call within 2 days.

    • @ChrisTopherBunnell
      @ChrisTopherBunnell 23 дня назад

      The wait at the Veterans hospitals and clinics is the shortest time I have seen in the past decade. #ThanksBiden

  • @MusicAvi8Tr
    @MusicAvi8Tr 23 дня назад +2

    I can attest to this! A 4 month wait to see a pulmonologist & neurologist was my experience in a major US city.

    • @ChrisTopherBunnell
      @ChrisTopherBunnell 23 дня назад

      The wait at the Veterans hospitals and clinics is the shortest time I have seen in the past decade. #ThanksBiden

  • @randyhubbard2391
    @randyhubbard2391 23 дня назад +6

    Crooks the whole lot

  • @83DragonWolf
    @83DragonWolf 22 дня назад +1

    Too many people. Saw this coming when I was 16. Very depressing. I suffer daily and still can’t get help.

  • @pjdava
    @pjdava 24 дня назад

    NBC News, This is fantastic! I subscribed because I love it!

  • @gamej7946
    @gamej7946 23 дня назад +1

    Doctors are overstretched. I'm not in America but I've never gone to see a doctor since 2001. When i get sick i know the medication i need and will go to the nearest pharmacist. I hardly do check ups.

  • @nunyadambusiness3530
    @nunyadambusiness3530 23 дня назад +1

    herein the mississippi delta it took me 15 months to get an appt.

    • @SUGAR_XYLER
      @SUGAR_XYLER 23 дня назад +1

      😂 I can get an appointment within 2 days

    • @ChrisTopherBunnell
      @ChrisTopherBunnell 23 дня назад

      The wait at the Veterans hospitals and clinics is the shortest time I have seen in the past decade. #ThanksBiden
      You didn't care when I had a 3 to 6 month VA appointment wait under Trump. What's good for the goose isn't good for the gander?

    • @nunyadambusiness3530
      @nunyadambusiness3530 23 дня назад +1

      @@ChrisTopherBunnell huh?? excuse me?? i said nothing about the VA. and civilians and veterans should both have highquality healthcare period. veterans shouldn't have to wait 6 months, and rural civilians shouldn't have to wait 15 months. it isn't a sympathy competition you can pipe down sir, did you take you anti-psychotics?

    • @nunyadambusiness3530
      @nunyadambusiness3530 23 дня назад

      @@SUGAR_XYLER good for you? rubbing it in just shows me & other people that you are not a good person.

  • @11zigz
    @11zigz 23 дня назад +2

    i know a guy who works in the medical field and he said alot of time the staff just fug around

  • @leonardmckinney607
    @leonardmckinney607 24 дня назад +1

    I been walking out of so many offices for this
    Reason

    • @ChrisTopherBunnell
      @ChrisTopherBunnell 23 дня назад

      The wait at the Veterans hospitals and clinics is the shortest time I have seen in the past decade. #ThanksBiden
      Imagine being a disabled war veteran and not having the option to walk out and go somewhere else. Oh wait, thanks to Biden's VA, I now have the option to go to my preferred provider if the VA slows down again.

  • @conniescharre9402
    @conniescharre9402 23 дня назад +1

    Paperwork? Is she kidding? Here’s a thought, hire help. This is an excuse. Even before ACA, my doctor kept me waiting weeks before I could see him. In the case of the specialist in this little girls case, her GP should have insisted that the specialist make an except to see her.

    • @joey5532
      @joey5532 23 дня назад +1

      she's not kidding. You are obviously no doctor or have a phd of any kind so you couldn't understand, because if you did, you would know only doctors/providers can write and sign charts on patients they examined.

  • @js6728
    @js6728 23 дня назад

    qualitys values, being of good people, huh

  • @alice_and_friends
    @alice_and_friends 23 дня назад +3

    Tell me how socialized health care has long wait times please 😁

    • @ChrisTopherBunnell
      @ChrisTopherBunnell 23 дня назад

      The VA is socialized. The wait at the Veterans hospitals and clinics is the shortest time I have seen in the past decade. #ThanksBiden

  • @rebecca5303
    @rebecca5303 23 дня назад

    they need to make it easier to become a doctor and then pay the doctor based on performance.

  • @pjdava
    @pjdava 23 дня назад

    NBC News, This made me laugh so much! Thanks for sharing!

  • @ChrisTopherBunnell
    @ChrisTopherBunnell 23 дня назад

    NOT AT THE VA!!! #ThanksBiden

  • @Queen76543
    @Queen76543 23 дня назад

    Dont they hire people to thst for them

  • @williamshaw5388
    @williamshaw5388 23 дня назад +2

    Healthcare in America is a joke, but it is good that our tax money is paying for free healthcare for Ukraine and Israel.

    • @GregLakatosChradm
      @GregLakatosChradm 23 дня назад +1

      Then we'll send you to Ukraine. D/A

    • @ChrisTopherBunnell
      @ChrisTopherBunnell 23 дня назад +2

      The wait at the Veterans hospitals and clinics is the shortest time I have seen in the past decade. #ThanksBiden

    • @GregLakatosChradm
      @GregLakatosChradm 23 дня назад

      @@ChrisTopherBunnell LOL!!! Yeas, Biden did that.

  • @user-qu8lt3hf7e
    @user-qu8lt3hf7e 23 дня назад +1

    Republicans fault

  • @Pilotpailie
    @Pilotpailie 23 дня назад +1

    Still way quicker than Canada.

    • @williamshaw5388
      @williamshaw5388 23 дня назад +4

      And 1000 times more expensive.

    • @Pilotpailie
      @Pilotpailie 23 дня назад

      @@williamshaw5388 no man. You just pay for it differently.

    • @Glorymole-pv2gt
      @Glorymole-pv2gt 23 дня назад

      In Canada you can’t get a doctor at all , you must go to emergency room….mass immigration has destroyed our healthcare system.

    • @ChrisTopherBunnell
      @ChrisTopherBunnell 23 дня назад

      @@Glorymole-pv2gt The wait at the Veterans hospitals and clinics is the shortest time I have seen in the past decade. #ThanksBiden
      You didn't care when I had a 3 to 6 month VA appointment wait under Trump. What's good for the goose isn't good for the gander?
      ER visits were my only option for for the first ten years I spent after returning from Iraq with disability.

  • @tzviplayz5478
    @tzviplayz5478 24 дня назад +1

    FIRST!!!

    • @somnuswaltz5586
      @somnuswaltz5586 24 дня назад +1

      Someone posted 3 mins before you did l00ser 😂

    • @ChrisTopherBunnell
      @ChrisTopherBunnell 23 дня назад

      @@somnuswaltz5586 "l00sers" waste their time challenging who posted first.

  • @Queen76543
    @Queen76543 23 дня назад

    Migrants

    • @ChrisTopherBunnell
      @ChrisTopherBunnell 23 дня назад

      The wait at the Veterans hospitals and clinics is the shortest time I have seen in the past decade. #ThanksBiden

  • @tzviplayz5478
    @tzviplayz5478 24 дня назад

    "Jews have skills like being doctors and lawyers, so maybe they shouldn't protest. Palestinians might need to keep protesting because many of their best jobs are at places like 7/11."

  • @jaysonj9327
    @jaysonj9327 24 дня назад +1

    Remember when they told us that Obamacare was going to solve every healthcare-related problem? LOL.

    • @pat_in_va8605
      @pat_in_va8605 24 дня назад +6

      Remember when Congress gutted the Affordable Care Act because of Insurance Company and Health Management Company lobbyists?

    • @marvink7969
      @marvink7969 24 дня назад +3

      Nobody ever said that Obamacare would solve everything with regard to the healthcare system. Either you’re totally ignorant or you’re just lying.

    • @ChrisTopherBunnell
      @ChrisTopherBunnell 23 дня назад +1

      The wait at the Veterans hospitals and clinics is the shortest time I have seen in the past decade. #ThanksBiden
      Remember when you didn't care that I had a 3 to 6 month VA appointment wait under Trump. What's good for the goose isn't good for the gander?

  • @jaynhook
    @jaynhook 23 дня назад

    That young doctor is ridiculous. Sorry that making 200k/year “isn’t what you signing up for”. Maybe she should take a pay cut and change professions.

  • @robertmarley8852
    @robertmarley8852 23 дня назад

    Obama care gross 🤢🤮😳🤢🤮🤢🤮😳😷🤢🤮😳😷😣🤢🤮

  • @pjdava
    @pjdava 23 дня назад

    NBC News, You're fantastic! Let's be friends and have fun!