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Seppi says the majority of people not going to the doctor are people with insurance.
'Mainly in the younger patients because more the burden is put on them for their health care in terms of higher deductibles and co-pays,' Dr. Seppi said.
Depending on what type of insurance people have, co-pays vary $15 to $50 a visit, and with the additional cost of prescriptions, a trip to the doctor just got out of reach financially.
'I did have a patient that actually had gone to the emergency room because of shortness of breath and didn't have the money to come into the office. When she finally came into the office we found that it wasn't asthma that was the cause of the problems it was a heart condition,' Dr. Seppi said.
Dr. Seppi says his office has seen a ten percent decrease in their patient load, and he expects to see even fewer patients in the future.
'As the economy gets worse we are expecting it to get worse,' Dr
nlike woolly caterpillars predicting winter severity, no doctor is venturing out on a limb to fuzzily forecast how bad the cold-and-flu season will be this year, or how it might affect children. But it's safe to say that medical professionals believe prevention is worth a pound of cure. 'For starters, the Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics this year is recommending that everyone get a flu shot between the ages of 6 months and 18 years old,' said Dr. Mary Ann Mancano, chairman of the department of pediatrics at St. Joseph Medical Center, Bern Township. That's a change from previous years, she said, when flu shots were encouraged for only the youngest (ages 6 months to 5 years) and older children at risk (asthma sufferers, for example). 'Little children can be germ spreaders and, with the flu, they can have the same level of complications as adults,' Mancano said. When children get the flu, they also become targets for bacterial pneumonia and ear infections that can ultimately lead to hospitalization. 'A person with the flu is going to feel like someone ran them over with a truck,' said Dr. Tom C
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