It’s easy not to trust a system associated with charging you $500 for Tylenol. Much easier (and occasionally even safer) to just smell some lavender and hope that helps. Go to an ED and you could just die of a stroke or heart attack in the waiting room or even get run over by somebody who died of a heart attack while driving and just plowed through the waiting room because they couldn’t afford an ambulance. And the Healthcare system is largely failing because of insurance companies. Burn inhumana and united quacks to the ground 2k24.
Edit: also housing. Fix the housing crisis and the Healthcare system could probably pull through despite the odds. There’s a huge number of homeless people that just live in hospitals, especially psych wards and I’m not even kidding.
There’s so many things wrong with the Americans healthcare system, I don’t know how to find the most absurd one.
But also the fact that you can advertise for medicin, and that the patient actually has a say in what they get at the doctor, is insane.
Why would you trust those guys, if the medicin they sell is sponsored?
Just wait for what’s coming. The ACA set us up for monetization of healthcare on steroids, and it’s just about to hit critical mass. I think anyone engaged with the healthcare system today can see the enshitification accelerating.
For just a sampling of what’s to come, there is a projected shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036. It seems like doctors aren’t interested in joining the rest of us in working for slave wages to benefit Wall Street.
lack of residency spots by design and high student loans make becomming a primary care doctor a losing proposition. specialize to survive
Yep. If you look into how the USA produces doctors, it is over giant hazing ritual created by a person who loved cocaine.
Nursing school is less intense in that sense, but it is absolutely mean girl boot camp I shit you not literal cliques form and I stg they’re literally adults and they do it anyway it is WILD to watch.
Or go to work at an insurance company denying claims. It’s better money and less hassle.
Residency is almost just a hazing ritual for gatekeeping . I honestly don’t think it makes doctors better. However, residency is not new, but the building doctor shortage is. My primary care physician of 20 years just retired early because the corporation that bought out his office was pushing him to take so many patients for such little compensation that it just wasn’t worth it.
Can we all agree that letting Wall St corps enshittify every aspect of our society so they can reap extreme profits at everyone else’s expense needs to end?
I might put it more violently, but… Yes.
Advertising of prescription medicine is illegal in my country so it’s crazy visiting the US and those are like half of the ads
You can have insurance and still be expected to pay thousands of dollars of one out of network doctor sees you at your in network hospital.
With the joy of high deductible health plans you can pay thousands of dollars in network, because they can get away with it.
I wish the insurance companies encouraged better life styles.
I wish the insurance companies were regulated to benefit the people they SHOULD protect.
I don’t
The patient doesn’t really get a say. Only the shitty doctors giving into their patients demanding medications they don’t need. Which isn’t to say it doesn’t happen, but it’s not standard.
Must be pretty widespread since there’s so many ads for drugs and medicin.
Because the bad doctors, as I said, do give in to the pushing patient. That doesn’t mean all do.
Even if it’s a small percentage of doctors, that could be a big boost in sales for the pharmaceutical company.