A Sick Healthcare System

By Cathie Ramey
RedwoodAge.com

  When it comes to healthcare, American women know what they want. They're just not getting it.

Given the choice, American women want a healthcare system that is timely, personal, convenient, and coordinated. Instead, a Harris Interactive poll finds they experience a disjointed system that results in confusion, duplication and contradictory recommendations by their doctors.

It's a big problem. Americans visit their family physicians 215 million times a year, accounting for about a quarter of all doctor visits. 

Sixty percent of those surveyed said it was a "challenge" to obtain healthcare for themselves and/or family members; and when they do, more than a quarter said the burden of informing one medical provider what another had recommended or diagnosed fell on their shoulders.  READ MORE on RedwoodAge.com