Assignment 15

I found 3 people to interview about using pain solution clinics as a transition from hospital narcotics. Two of the interviewees are family friends of my mothers, and the third is a mutual friend of my roommate. When it comes to medical well being, all three interviewees originally stated that price is one of the most important factors, if there is a drastic variance in the cost. However if the prices are relatively close, health is something so important that most of the people I interviewed claimed that they are willing to pay a little more if it does result in better long term health. While style is not a big concern, (efficiency is more important than flashy looks for medicine), quality is something that everyone was very interested in. Quality must be very high if patients will consider it and if hospitals will refer their patients to these clinics. In this system, the most common way of paying for the service will be through insurance and medicare. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It is good because more people will come for the better service if they are less responsible for the payment. However, dealing with medicare from certain patients can definitely be a struggle. For this reason, payment does not come right away, but takes several weeks to be processed and sent out to the doctors. When looking back on the effectiveness of the purchase, the potential customers would look primarily at one thing- how effective the treatment was. Similarly, reflecting on a bad purchase would be if they received poor treatment, and the pain that they felt was not significantly made better. In summary, the three people I interviewed felt similarly about the ideals of treatment, and felt the same way about why they want it. Health is a primary concern for so many people because it effects their everyday lives, and determines how they are able to interact with the world. Because of this date, I can determine that there is little shortage of people who need this service at one point or another, because people are always getting injured. Also, I determined that  people are also usually willing to pay a little extra for superior care, but not all the time.