Co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles. None of it makes any sense.

that rich people don't want Medicare for all; there would be poor people in line ahead of them.

Think about it. I talked to people in Canada and they tell me they would never trade health care systems with the US, but one may have to wait in line longer in Canada for non-life-threatening procedures.

I'm not even so sure about that, I waited 7 months to have knee replacement surgery.

There are too many people here who don't want to share because they're convinced that "other" people don't deserve anything.

This selfishness rooted in racism has been nurtured by right-wing media for decades.

Except for a short period when Slavery wasn’t a thing, just indentured servitude. And then the Rich discovered that the “people” didn’t discriminate so much and they found common cause against the Rich. So, low and behold they found a vehicle that ensured the people would work against each other rather than for each other.

We would already have it.

my recent trip through the medical/industrial complex took almost a year of f’ing around. ended w emergency surgery. wd have been at least 2 more mos if it hadnt gone hot.
the wait for a non-urgent colonoscopy is 6 mos, min. even after being in the er twice, the wait was 2 mos.

i wasnt in huge pain, which is the only thing that speeds things up. but i was almost non-functional. FOR A YEAR.

and what is your insurance? I never had to wait that long or go to the ER. I have BCBS PPO Medicare Advantage.

i have united healthcare. they havent made a peep.
i’m in chicago. it’s not like there’s a big shortage. tho there r a lot of ppl who come here from elsewhere to the hospital that i ended up, i started w a chain that had 9 hospitals here. a couple r magnets for ppl in this part of the state, but only a couple.

i did find out, sorta accidentally, that if waits r long, go to where the rich ppl live, if u can. i got in to see a gi very quickly in the office on the far northshore, when it wd have taken almost a month to see the same doc downtown.
even so, i need a special ct, and it’s a 2 wk wait. last test i had was same. all those 2 wks start to add up. they got pissed at me at 1 e.r. cuz i knew that and came there even tho i wasnt dying. even tho i chose a sunday morning, knowing they wouldnt b busy. (another little secret.)

...ignore the fact that people have to wait for all kinds of medical services here, even a doctor's office visit requires a wait. That is really a lame excuse to defend our current, cruel system.

with my Primary Care Physician. It will be in August! Tell me about wait times in Europe...

My doctor found I have a-fib in early February, and with all the "out of network" BS, I'm still waiting.

These medical journals for anti-him bias, and soon they’ll be as honest and dependable as the Pentagon.



https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-administration-targets-academic-journals-attorney-letter-proposed-funding-cuts

Unless you’re a billionaire.

…while healthcare in the US is the most expensive in the world. Our system of private insurance with its overhead and profit, adds about a 30% increase to our cost., while Medicare overhead is about 2%.

It says access denied.

For the full paper you can register for free. According to the website.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa2408259

so we know how to do it in the US, we just don't want it to be universal for everyone. And still Republicans want to cut Medicare and privatize it for profit.

The US VA is similar to UK NHS and Japan's system.

Obamacare is similar to the Swiss system.

We know how to do these systems. We just don't have the political will to do it.

Then along comes a Luigi to bring lots of attention to the problems with our for profit insurance denying claims.

i grew up from 10 to now with zero medical debt...thank you tommy douglas

In 1990, I was diagnosed with lymphoma.

It returned in 2019.

I was able to achieve remission in 2022 but only on the fifth type of treatment.

Three things had to happen for me to reach remission.

1) The attempted repeal of ACA 2017 by Trump and GOP failed. ACA or Obamacare provides me protection against lifetime limits.

2) My healthcare provider successfully appealed the payment of the drug against my insurer. It will not be done with this GOP President and Congress; but decision on treatment care should be removed from insurers.

3) The drug that worked was approved by the FDA the year before. Unfortunately, every time lymphoma returns it gets more aggressive and resistant to prior therapies. That is way, cancer research is important. Cancer research that Trump and Musk have cancelled.

Trump's policies are detrimental to my health.
Trump's is incompetent in healthcare; but he is incompetent in everything he touches.
I would probably have better odds if I lived in a place like Canada or England.

is all the big wigs care about in this country.

My whole life and it has gotten much worse, I was hopping there might be a tipping point in my life....have not seen it yet

The last 18 months of my husband’s life—lots of 911 calls resulting in multiple stays in 4 different hospitals. He had original Medicare with plan F supplement referred to by one RN as the gold standard of insurance—so that was not the problem. The problem is that US health care just plain sucks—it’s the profit motive and moderate incompetence rule the day. Beware the cath lab—it’s hugely profitable. Beware the the large doses of prescription medications that cause your pharmacist to say “wow that’s a heavy dose”. Two times we were checked out of a hospital with the wrong prescription lists. One time he was able to walk into the emergency but left several days later in a wheelchair with oxygen because the the hospital’s cardiac team overruled his own doctor and one of their other teams and medicated the living hell out of him. There really should be a disclaimer above all hospital entrances that says “Abandon All Hope”. All of this was proceeded by decades of over medications that led to kidney problems. Then he was put on dialysis way too soon because his doctor thought it was a good idea, that it would preserve kidney function when in reality it hastens cardiac problems.
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