Corrente Boldly shrill ... http://www.correntewire.com/node/13182/atom/feed 2008-09-05T18:00:32-04:00 Sister sutures her insured brother's hand at her kitchen table. "I couldn't get an appointment," he says http://www.correntewire.com/sister_sutures_her_insured_brothers_hand_at_her_kitchen_table_i_couldnt_get_an_appointment_he_says 2008-09-05T17:13:36-04:00 2008-09-05T18:00:32-04:00 DCblogger Americans Who Have Insurance —But Still No Access To Care, Part I:

A friend who lives in Boston complained, not long ago, about not being able to find a physician. In Boston? “Come on,” I said. “This is like claiming you couldn’t find a liquor store.”

“They’re all oncologists and cardiologists,” he grumbled. “Last week I cut my hand badly enough that it needed stitches. I have good insurance. But I couldn’t get an appointment with my family doctor—or any of my friends’ doctors. I didn’t want to spend hours in the ER. So I wound up going to my sister’s house. She sewed it up at her kitchen table.”

So what did he pay the insurance company all that money for, then?

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