Jackson Jambalaya

Baby boomers are going to get exactly what they want. Imported, third world healthcare workers who speak in incomprehensible dialect and will treat them the same way they treat livestock. But this is the globalist, outsourced, America that provided the boomers their wealth and robbed their grandkids of a future.

For at least the past 15 years medical doctors who see patients have been pushing for more and more physician's assistants and nurse practitioners.


Is this because they have been worried about staff shortages or because they're lazy and want to shove off half their patient-load to staff who are untrained in the highest levels of patient care. Doctors can't get full payment now for a multitude of ailments owned by the Boomers Sid talks about, so why waste their time seeing us?


Hmmm. If we need all these lower level doctor-wanabees, we don't need all these doctors. I go to multiple clinics at my age and used to see an MD every time I visited a clinic. I haven't seen one, now, in two years.

As a boomer not living in a rural area, my spouse and I recognize the shortage. It is difficult to get a timely appointment when something goes wrong, and walk-in clinics refer to their affiliated hospital's doctors.

Also, we see the " business" model in use, where waits are long and we are like "widgets" in an assembly line. It used to be in a " specialty" even that patients had their own doctors and would be "seen" quickly when ill. So we are urged to go to an emergency room where costs are higher and wait time is even longer.

Then, Medicare acceptance and a battle with our "supplemental" insurers ensues.

Profit rules all our lives now. Once upon a time in a country our children miss, this wasn't the case and our children and grandchild don't realize a country ruled on greed and party loyalty rather than honor and community is the problem.

Medicine is now a business , not a profession.

Rural MS can get prosperous enough to take care of their own health care or move to a city that has hospitals that accept indigents.

I see an internist, a cardiologist, an eye doctor, an orthopaedic surgeon, and a cardiologist, and have no trouble getting the necessary appointments. I am grateful for access to excellent health care in Jackson.

8:43
Of course Medicine is a business. If government ran the whole thing, you would be on a cold gurney in a drafty hallway with a med student to take your appendix out, after you waited 2 months with acute appendecitis.

MS is not a retirement destination. Check out the laws (there are none) that protect the elderly. With the government forcing high cost, substandard care, they have created rich owners of nursing homes/medicaid payment providers and left their vulnerable with crappy care. Rural hospitals had wings dedicated to nursing home so they could stay afloat in rural communities. When the state forced, $125,000 annually on its people, they shut down. As I take care of parents , I realized I needed to plan my retirement in another state that has a better care system. Until voters want a change, we will continue to have rulers (the good ole boy club of MS) and the rest of the state who is and wants to be last in this nation. Tag I am out and it is all yours.

The nurse practitioners I’ve encounter do a great job. This includes spinal, shoulder and general medical services. We need more NPs.

There’s always a coming “crisis,” and those that helped create said “crisis” will always be willing to tell us how about the next “fix.”

Get ready to hear the words “boomers” and “crisis” together more and more and more. The “rich men north of Virginia,” the ones that recently printed $9 Trillion, knowing the electorate doesn’t have the common sense required to understand “it has to come from somewhere,” those rich men need somebody to blame for the currency devaluation pain (crisis) the younger generations are dealing with, and “boomers” are as good a group to blame as any.

Re: the nursing shortage, pay them more, then magically, the nursing shortage goes away, without the help of universities, the same group that help perpetrate the student loan “crisis.”

9:22 - You nailed it. I'm 12 years away from retirement and I've begun traveling to at least one destination a year to try to figure out where to run to when it's all done.

9:13 it's government interference in healthcare that has created so many of the problems. You say healthcare is a business, and it certainly is. So when the government artificially passes laws that force hospitals to treat anyone who shows up, regardless of their ability to pay, where does the hospital lay that uncompensated care? It's a write-off, and the billions in write-offs nationwide must be reconciled with higher day rates, elevated service charges, and yes the famous $20 aspirin pill. In turn, insurance companies get charged more, and they in turn charge their policy holders more, which means a higher deduction from paychecks to cover that healthcare coverage. That's just one example of government meddline (there are many) that makes healthcare more expensive for us all. Some say it's the humane thing to do, and maybe it is, but the bill still has to be paid - it's just a matter of who pays it, and how much.

10:12 Where are you going to run? There's no where to run. Canada? Spain? Let me know. I'm listening.

The state could possibly get several hundred more students involved in nursing programs if the college board would approve a program for Jackson State. Not going to happen though. That just don't fit the master plan no matter the need. One more reason why Mississippi is last.

“Life’s a bitch, and then you die “.. so …..

New doctors do not want to stay in Mississippi. Guy next door has 2 sons at UMMC and says they hear from recruiters all over the U.S. They will not be staying.

Nurse practitioners are great!
But, u get billed for SEEING a doctor!!!!

I saw a Physician's Assistant a month or so back. I engaged her in conversation in order to find out just exactly what her training and experience and duties were. She explained, I guess, that she's a pay grade higher than nurse and on the level of NP, pay wise.

After an X-ray she advised me that I had arthritis, not gout (as I thought). I didn't bother to tell her that gout is arthritis.