We have the worst, most expensive way of paying for health care in the world.

Aug 27, 2024
7:08:12am

DubuMfalme Truly Addicted User

The care you get is top quality, but I'm not sure why we put up with this opaque, brutally expensive system, instead of looking around to literally any other developed country and picking one of them.

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Time

Health Insurance is such a scam sometimes

RockyBalboa

Aug 27, 7:01am

Always a scam.

Haysom Till

Aug 27, 7:03am

We have the worst, most expensive way of paying for health care in the world.

DubuMfalme

Aug 27, 7:08am

Because our politicians are in the back pocket of lobbyists, and we all want to

Junior Deputy

Aug 27, 7:09am

Also change has been demonized in our society.

boctabulous

Aug 27, 7:11am

Consumer protection is communism

vagabonder

Aug 27, 8:49am

Exactly. Basically any change is communism or socialism etc

boctabulous

Aug 27, 9:16am

Yep. That’s how corporations and lobbyists have framed it for decades.

Y-Phile

Aug 27, 4:46pm

You don't want the Death Panels to target your grandma do you?

dYrtbYkerYder

Aug 27, 4:57pm

Special interest always have an outsized gain at cost of overall society

BYU'01

Aug 27, 6:00pm

Politicians like using it as a political football more than they like solving

macdizzle

Aug 27, 7:27am

More of a piñata than a football. Bash it and get as much money as possible out

Nakedbootleg

Aug 27, 7:59am

If politicians actually were interested in fixing the problems of the country a lot of them would become unnecessary.

greatbam

Aug 27, 11:31am

A lot of stuff is top quality but I would argue going to a standard dr is not top quality

TADOW

Aug 27, 7:48am

Dear premed majors. It’s not too late to change your mind. This is the

Nakedbootleg

Aug 27, 7:57am

So true.

EDthoracotomy

Aug 27, 11:18am

This is what happens when you have MBA And other business administrators running

Powerbait DPM

Aug 27, 7:59am

Healthcare admin provide almost 0 value

EDthoracotomy

Aug 27, 11:19am

I'd argue negative value as they are overhead and source of frustration.

Powerbait DPM

Aug 27, 12:10pm

On second thought im with you.

EDthoracotomy

Aug 27, 7:26pm

This has everything to do with a 3rd party payer system created by the tax code

BYU'01

Aug 27, 4:58pm

🙄 This is what you get when the government creates perverse tax incentives

BYU'01

Aug 27, 4:57pm

But adopting what others are doing is an admission that the US isn't the best

downtownchrisbrown

Aug 27, 8:14am

The AMA is the actual reason

boyblue

Aug 27, 8:56am

Step 1: Refuse to talk about obesity. Step 2: Get everyone addicted to RX drugs.

dYrtbYkerYder

Aug 27, 10:34am

Universal health care is complex, only 32 of 33 developed countries have it

Dataguy

Aug 27, 11:42am

Our problem is we're too stupid to agree on anything that shouldn't be covered

dYrtbYkerYder

Aug 27, 11:56am

And also that not every office/hospital needs all the expensive tools/machines

Dataguy

Aug 27, 2:34pm

Threat of malpractice suits is a big part of the problem.

dYrtbYkerYder

Aug 27, 4:00pm

You are wrong. Take it from a foreigner

crablegs

Aug 27, 2:08pm

It didn't used to be this way. 70s and 80s much easier

Coug Dude

Aug 27, 3:36pm

*always

boctabulous

Aug 27, 7:10am

Obamacare has given those that can't pay better health insurance and care

byusage

Aug 27, 7:34am

Ya cause prior to Obamacare our healthcare was great 🙄

boctabulous

Aug 27, 7:58am

It was! Costs have skyrocketed and quality of care reduced

pegushin

Aug 27, 8:29am

It put my company out of business

Coug Dude

Aug 27, 10:32pm

Because of collections, they’ve always got you by the steelies.

OmahaOmaha

Aug 27, 7:35am

Best insurance I had was a company that required me to pay "cash" upfront

Tio

Aug 27, 8:47am

I am not sure that is legal anymore...

Iman23

Aug 27, 8:57am

Was just billed twice for doing PT. Called the office and told them I already

Lefty24

Aug 27, 7:05pm

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