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I really don't understand why the US doesn't have a grown up healthcare system. Do you just not see how much better healthcare is in the rest of the developed world?
I really don't understand why the US doesn't have a grown up healthcare system. Do you just not see how much better healthcare is in the rest of the developed world?
I’ve lived in quite a few different countries (including a couple that are frequently praised for their public healthcare systems), and the quality of the healthcare I’ve received in the US is far better than anything I’ve had anywhere else.
If you cant afford it, you're fucked in hundreds of different ways, including basically signing for any care "i agree to pay whatever im told for the rest of my life" blank check.
And healthcare is the leading cause of bankruptcy. This sort of crap doesn't happen in a decent country.
https://www.forbes.com/2010/03/25/why-people-go-bankrupt-per...
But yeah in the end all of this machinery that gets between the patient and the provider and affects that relationship negatively needs to be done away with.
I really don't understand why the US doesn't have a grown up healthcare system. Do you just not see how much better healthcare is in the rest of the developed world?
I really don't understand why the US doesn't have a grown up healthcare system. Do you just not see how much better healthcare is in the rest of the developed world?
The healthcare system in the US is much better for a small group of people who make a lot of money from it, and they have bought the entirety of one, and much of another political party to ensure that it stays that way.
I really don't understand why the US doesn't have a grown up healthcare system. Do you just not see how much better healthcare is in the rest of the developed world?
US healthcare system works for people with money, and people with money make up most of the voting base.
To the hospital systems and insurance companies, the confusion is a feature, not a bug. They assume most patients and their families will just knuckle under and pay what they're told they owe. Since the health care sector is one of the largest political donors, elected officials have little incentive to fix anything, so they nibble at the edges and call it reform.
Every interaction I have involves checking out, standing before a sign that says, "all fees must be paid at time of service." I pay then, then months later get more bills to be paid well after the time of service.
Every interaction I have involves checking out, standing before a sign that says, "all fees must be paid at time of service." I pay then, then months later get more bills to be paid well after the time of service.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’ve lived in quite a few different countries (including a couple that are frequently praised for their public healthcare systems), and the quality of the healthcare I’ve received in the US is far better than anything I’ve had anywhere else.
The quality of care you did receive in those countries may have been lesser, but what could you have gotten if you paid as much there as you pay in the US?
If you ignore the fact that I was already paying substantially more for it with higher taxes, the answer is still nothing. Countries with public healthcare don’t have expansive private healthcare systems, and nowhere in the world has a healthcare system that offers the level of service that the US system does. For example my sister was giving birth in New Zealand, and I wanted to just pay out of pocket for a private hospital for her. There are zero private hospitals in the country that offer this service, so her only option was to go to her local (and notoriously bad) hospital. She remained in the maternity ward for nearly a week, because while she was there that hospital had its 15th norovirus outbreak for the year.