I'm over 65 and my spouse is over 70. We're staying inside as much as we can but we both have doctor's appointments this week. We're afraid to go and afraid to not go.

regarding some sinus issues and while it was a $20.00 charge. I saved that much in gas, time and discomfort.

If they're not essential, you'll probably be told not to reschedule and only your doctor(s) can decide if they're essential or not.

I have to go at the end of April, otherwise I'll get cut off!

My husband must have eye surgery every 3 mos. for the rest of his life. He is 83 right now; next surgery at the end of April too! If he lets it go, he could go blind in the solitary eye he still has vision left in!

We do not know what the hell to do!

Are we fucked yet or what?

if you can't take your own vitals, I guess Drs offices (hotbeds of disease) would make sense. Call and ask if you can take care of it long distance. Good luck. We live in the middle of nowhere so, it's a normal thing to self-isolate.

A site I have rarely used until now.
If I can't verify it, I usually take it with a grain of salt.
It took my breath away to read about the policy they were considering at the time.

yup

There are no perfect choices, sometimes not even good ones, but they do the best they can with the guidelines and rules they establish beforehand. If they could do it perfectly they would be God himself.

(sigh)

-There has always been a greater need for healthcare than the amount available
-THEREFORE, some mechanism will decide.
-There really are only three options:
1. A government official or hospital administrator decides
2. An insurance company adjuster decides
3. The 'free market' decides.

If there's one heart available for transplant, and two people needing it, *SOME* sort of decision will be made. Maybe it's a 93-year-old woman with 6 months most left to live vs a 7-year-old kid, maybe it's a millionaire vs homeless person, maybe it's a Magat vs a Social Worker... in every case, some form of rationing is going to happen, cold hard fact.

Health care, even in the most advance countries, still has to assign resources that are less than demand. When there is less of something than is needed, some way of assigning stuff goes on.

what happened, didn't Trump or Jared git in on any of the projected contracts.

Every time they do something that discourages me, they do something else that just fires me back up.

there's any way we can ramp up production of ventilators. I know, there has to be enough trained medical personnel to use them, also.