More Health Care for the Poor in New York
The City Counsel of New York City has set aside 26 million dollars to be used to create 10 new health care centers in underserved areas in New York. They are finally responding to the complaints by the poor and uninsured that were asked to fill out a survey that named the various problems with the current state of available health care. Among those complaints were that doctors and nurses didn’t spend enough time with patients. Appointments were not timely and patients had to wait long periods of time before they could even get in to see their doctors, and that medical staff didn’t listen well and care itself was too expensive.
As with everywhere else in the country, New Yorkers are using the ER as their primary doctors, and that situation is not good for anybody. It’s hoped that by creating these additional medical centers the people that need them will be better served and get better care, and it will ease up the traffic at area hospital ERs.