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As a patient, post-2020 I find even basics like appointment scheduling to be hard. (I'm also an MD, which makes all of this easier for me, and yet it's still a morass of scheduling hell, too many phone calls, too many logins/reauthentications, etc.)
As a patient, post-2020 I find even basics like appointment scheduling to be hard. (I'm also an MD, which makes all of this easier for me, and yet it's still a morass of scheduling hell, too many phone calls, too many logins/reauthentications, etc.)
I de facto require semaglutide due to the side-effects of the only anti-depressant I'm able to tolerate (I've titrated up and down on 17+). Unfortunately, I currently don't have health insurance and hovering at 35% excess weight. There's no point in my going to a doctor when all of their recommendations are "window shopping". The only way this shit stops is not Medicare for all, which is a red herring with third-clas…
The actual issue is way way simpler: Doctors and other healthcare works make too much money for it to be affordable for everyone. That's it, it's as simple as that.
Compare Dr salaries to other countries. Doctors in the US make 2 to 10 times as much as other counties. (Google it if you don't believe me.)
And they make so much because there is not enough supply. And colleges take advantage of that and charge insane tuition.
Want to actually change things? Start educating way way way more Doctors, and encourage people to go to low cost universities (which do exist - but everyone wants "the best").
See: https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2022/02/16/physician...
As a patient, post-2020 I find even basics like appointment scheduling to be hard. (I'm also an MD, which makes all of this easier for me, and yet it's still a morass of scheduling hell, too many phone calls, too many logins/reauthentications, etc.)
Appointment scheduling is beyond awful these days. We're getting specialist appointments scheduled literally a year out, or just outright rejected because they're too full. It's de facto rationing.
I de facto require semaglutide due to the side-effects of the only anti-depressant I'm able to tolerate (I've titrated up and down on 17+). Unfortunately, I currently don't have health insurance and hovering at 35% excess weight. There's no point in my going to a doctor when all of their recommendations are "window shopping". The only way this shit stops is not Medicare for all, which is a red herring with third-clas…
> The ultimate solution is [...] making for-profit health insurance illegal. > Every other free country in the world has [...] ... and most also have private health insurance too. Some have a higher percentage of people with private health insurance than even the US does, often in a supplementary role.
I guess that countries that provide public health insurance don't have people skipping doctor visits because of costs, even if the majority of residence also have private insurance.
We can't even get people to pay $14/mo for YouTube without ads, and you expect them to pay for healthcare?!
The US system sounds totally broken compared to my experiences within the Singapore and Australian health care systems.
I de facto require semaglutide due to the side-effects of the only anti-depressant I'm able to tolerate (I've titrated up and down on 17+). Unfortunately, I currently don't have health insurance and hovering at 35% excess weight. There's no point in my going to a doctor when all of their recommendations are "window shopping". The only way this shit stops is not Medicare for all, which is a red herring with third-clas…
Gastric bypass? Has the benefit of being a onetime payment instead of in perpetuity.
As a patient, post-2020 I find even basics like appointment scheduling to be hard. (I'm also an MD, which makes all of this easier for me, and yet it's still a morass of scheduling hell, too many phone calls, too many logins/reauthentications, etc.)
Even things like my yearly checkups which technically doesn’t need an MD, have gone poorly. One of the NPs strongly wanted me on statins of slightly elevated cholesterol meanwhile the MD that I eventually took a second opinion from, suggested that for my age and physical condition, I most definitely don’t need to be on them.