[mindslight]

I've heard this before, but I still can't figure out where this first class medical care is hiding. For the regional medical system I'm familiar with, there are two major hospitals, each with a set of associated providers. They both take most "insurances", because they effectively have to. I'm mostly familiar with the "better" one, and my experiences there have not been good. Are they checking the class of a patient's "insurance" plan behind the scenes, and sending different doctors based on that? Do I need to travel to a major 1M+ city (somehow even during an emergency)? Or what else gives? Where are these engaged doctors, who actually give you more than a 10-20 minute slice of their time, actually hiding? Ones who don't simply pass the buck to a different place (often booking many months out), recursively? Because from what I've gathered, I suspect that most people are just not very good at judging the competence of professionals, and are absolutely unable to judge the constructive incompetence of systems.