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It's a fucking embarrassment that there isn't an obvious person to call for help here. I wish there was an organization that would help people navigate their healthcare. Like a medical concierge/social worker. Someone is an expert on The System and acts entirely on your behalf. The would oversee your entire healthcare. They book your appointments, remind you to go, handle most billing issues, make sure you're up to d…
Will it take every single voting age person in America having a first-hand experience like this to change health care? How can any sane person prefer this over the alternative offered by Developed countries?
Tell me how to vote for change, and I'll gladly do it. In addition to being terrible, the current system discourages entrepreneurship and effectively taxes small businesses.
Turn off your TV, get off your couch and get outside and protest like any good citizen of a democracy is required to do.
Look what happens in France when the government tries to take away a single public holiday, or make changes to maternity leave.
What your government is currently offering for health care is completely and utterly unacceptable beyond belief. It's your job to make them change it.
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You say "the alternative" as if every other country on Earth has one system, and the US has a second system, and that first system is what we should have. Whereas all those other countries have a bunch of different systems (compare Canada to the UK to France to Singapore). And each of those systems has real tradeoffs for real people. (To be clear: I'd be fine with many, even most, of those tradeoffs, but people who a…
You say "the alternative" as if every other country on Earth has one system, and the US has a second system, and that first system is what we should have. That's actually fairly accurate. We have a system with 15% of the population without any sort of insurance, whereas 'the other' system provides universal coverage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_health_ins... The payment details may vary widely f…
I would bump that to "hundreds of millions". Even when you have insurance, most of it's garbage. Health insurance means you're probably OK, but not always.
The PPACA ("Obamacare") outlawed some of the worst garbage insurance plans (that almost qualify as scams) but that left people with no insurance, and the "market solution" isn't working at all.
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Yes I hope there will be some discussion around this!
I would say naive folk fucked by the system. In Europe it is kind of similar, but not as bad. My relative has non-lethal cancer. It was diagnosed by private doctor and waiting list for operation is a few months. So he called ambulance and went to public hospital with 'unknown pain'. The very same doctor (who also work in public hospital) diagnosed cancer second time and bumbed him on top of the list, since it is an '…
It's a fucking embarrassment that there isn't an obvious person to call for help here. I wish there was an organization that would help people navigate their healthcare. Like a medical concierge/social worker. Someone is an expert on The System and acts entirely on your behalf. The would oversee your entire healthcare. They book your appointments, remind you to go, handle most billing issues, make sure you're up to d…
There are - look for patient navigators.
"Navigation Services – $125/hr" -- at that price it may as well not exist.
It's a fucking embarrassment that there isn't an obvious person to call for help here. I wish there was an organization that would help people navigate their healthcare. Like a medical concierge/social worker. Someone is an expert on The System and acts entirely on your behalf. The would oversee your entire healthcare. They book your appointments, remind you to go, handle most billing issues, make sure you're up to d…
I hear that YC accepts Non-profits now. ;)
-typical HN libertarian. They'll show up, just wait.
It's a fucking embarrassment that there isn't an obvious person to call for help here. I wish there was an organization that would help people navigate their healthcare. Like a medical concierge/social worker. Someone is an expert on The System and acts entirely on your behalf. The would oversee your entire healthcare. They book your appointments, remind you to go, handle most billing issues, make sure you're up to d…
Will it take every single voting age person in America having a first-hand experience like this to change health care? How can any sane person prefer this over the alternative offered by Developed countries?
Main reason I never want to live in America is health care. Just knowing that no matter what I'll be admitted to the hospital and treated is something I never want to live without. *2nd reason would be gun violence.
Our healthcare system is terrifyingly bad, however. It's a damn good reason to avoid living here.
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You say "the alternative" as if every other country on Earth has one system, and the US has a second system, and that first system is what we should have. Whereas all those other countries have a bunch of different systems (compare Canada to the UK to France to Singapore). And each of those systems has real tradeoffs for real people. (To be clear: I'd be fine with many, even most, of those tradeoffs, but people who a…
All developed countries (excluding the US) share similarities, that when painting with a broad brush, can be called the same. Namely: People pay taxes that pay for healthcare for every single citizen. No person is without care. (end of comparison). (You can tell people it's exactly the same as how they pay for Elementary and High School, how they pay for police and firemen, etc. etc.) EDIT: Implied in my broad statem…
It's a myth that all healthcare needs are free everywhere. There's always some diseases that will fall through a net somewhere. This of course does not mean that the situation in the US is not abysmal, just that 'everywhere else has fully free medicine' is a myth.