In Australia, the government pays for our healthcare, and we give it back by paying for advanced transport options, speeding fines and tollways. We're not rich, but we're alive and fed.
It is Not totally free...we do pay a levy on our taxes to at least help pay the cost of healthcare ....the rest is from high taxes on everything....but at least we can get healthcare, especially when an emergency...I am grateful for what we do have 💙💙
I feel awful for that doctor who worries about the patients who are not insured. He shouldn't have to worry about this. He should be able to treat people without hat worry. This is why US healthcare is so dreadful. You need a single payer system - it'll also be a lot cheaper.
I couldn't agree more. The doctor should not be worrying himself about which patients have insurance and which ones do not. That factor alone should not and cannot effect the care he provides. Regardless, he has to see and treat that patient. A doctor or hospital cannot refuse care to anyone only because of their lack of insurance. The nurses and doctors in this video made a very good point. A lot of the patients that they get daily are not emergency cases. Cases that are not emergent are the cases that prolong the waiting time, create delays, and create staffing issues for the hospital. If there were mire family practitioners that would be willing to take on a patient that does not have health insurance it would solve a lot of the Emergency Department complaints all over the country. The one nurse made a good point, that they should create more clinics available to those without insurance so that they would not have to go to the hospital for care. Also, making insurance available to everyone would crowd waiting rooms for a year or two until they can find the staff and the facilities to treat all the people that can finally seek treatment.
Thomas Newton how are they going to come up with that money......the doctors and nurses are not going to work for free.....if free health care for everyone was available tax payers would have to pay more taxes
There is no such thing as "free" healthcare. In places where "free" healthcare is in effect, the citizens are *still* paying for it through increased taxes (which adds up to about the same expense as paying directly for private insurance). *Nothing is ever free.*
As a future RN hell no I want to help people but the US is in enough debt and countries that have systems like what you believe we should have take out huge taxes.
One time my doctor admitted me to the ER for my mental health state and I honest to God felt so bad for wasting their time. I didn't even want to be admitted and every nurse and doctor looked at me like I was wasting their time, which I knew. I had no idea how crazy it really was for them until now
You weren't wasting anyone's time. Mental health is just as serious as physical health. If that's the way they made you feel, maybe you were reading into things too much, the hospital staff might have been tired, or they just weren't good nurses and doctors. I'm glad your well now.
Healthcare professional here: You absolutely did not waste anyone's time. Having psych admits in the ED is a normal part of working on that unit. This is particularly true in the US where we don't have a good health insurance system so people with mental health issues don't get adequate care and end up in crisis.
I can watch all kinds of health care things without blinking an eye, but seeing that child brought in via Life Flight, intubated, was heart wrenching for me. My little brother died on a Life Flight. He arrived at the Children’s Hospital intubated, having been resuscitated several times. He was declared DOA, dead on arrival.
Born and raised in the U.S and I hear of all these other countries with free health care and I think that's great, so why not here, but money will always rule this country before anything else and that's sad...
My grandad had a pain in his chest that he thought was indigestion He took my cousins to school and played 18 holes of golf, he then felt strange so went to the hospital where they checked him over then rushed him to the er because that chest pain was a massive heart attack and he required a quadruple bypass surgery
In Canada, we have universal health care and that's the bare minimum. Wait times, not enough staff, tight funding, are just a few. We have one of the highest price rates for prescriptions, meaning we're paying hundreds out of pocket.
It's alarming that the medical staff wouldn't believe their patients when they claim that their primary care physicians sent them to the ER. That's exactly how my daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor; I took her to her pediatrician who then sent us directly to the ER to get a CAT of her brain based upon her symptoms.
Just curious, do you not get a referral letter or anything like that from the primary care docs? Surely that's proof enough for the hospitals? I'm from Malaysia and that's how our system works.
I once had three herniated discs in my back which is extremely painful and doctors will say it’s one of the most painful things you can experience. The ER doctor did NOT believe me because I was saying I couldn’t feel anything in my right leg and only had excruciating pain when sitting. He literally screamed at me and yanked on my leg hard because he thought I was lying. It wasn’t until my MRI came back that he believed me and decided to call in a neurosurgeon. Doctors don’t care.
+Amanda Cormier Why is it ridiculous? Just because you are in need doesn't mean that others have a duty to supply your need. Medical care is a service just like any other. Why shouldn't physicians and nurses be compensated for their work?
Because it's so sad that you have to pay thousands of dollars just to get care for being sick. It doesn't make sense. Oh I'm sorry you're dying but you must pay us $5000.
taylor koziak maynard If you have insurance than it barely costs anything, I have been to the ER in america and it costed me like 50 dollars out of pocket and I got very prompt and high quality care
Dudefromspace567 and what if you have been diagnosed with something like appendicitis? up to 50k for an appendectomy? what then? it's free for us. my good friend just had it
taylor koziak maynard Do you not understand how insurance works? The hospital bills 50k to the insurance who pays like 5k and then you pay as low as a 100 dollar copay. Stop saying it is free for you guys, nothing is free, you pay taxes that pay for healthcare, we pay for insurance that is most likely payed through an employer or medicare for the retired (and provide insurance for those who cannot afford it through taxes)
Since childhood I have had problems with my heart. Now due to my age I have more problems that require constant treatment and medication. Fortunately in the UK we have our NHS. Today I had an MRI scan that would have emptied my pockets if not the the NHS. We are so lucky here. Visit the ER or the GP and get world class treatment. If the UK can have an NHS then why can't other countries like the USA do the same?
I'm staying up late every night watching and researching about er nursing because that's what I want to do when I grow up and I don't learn any of this stuff at school so..
As a medical student dead set on specializing in emergency medicine, there are far too many reasons to finish a Ph.D. in America, then high tail it ASAP to another country after residency. What isn't covered in this video is the culture. There are countless times patients or their families will come in acting way out of conduct, treating the medical staff like they are fast food service employees. (Screaming, threatening violence, threatening lawsuits or filing a corporate complaint if they don't get A and B in 5 minutes.) There are even flashing neon signs at some ERs in larger cities advertising wait times. The ER administration are generally business people, and value "customer service" more than "professional care." It would be malpractice to throw out someone who was violent and ranting away if there was anything medically wrong with them at all, and ambulance chasing lawyers will be more than happy to obliage to them, stating their behavior was something medically wrong and it's our fault entirely. All in all, people can get away with acting like spoiled children in the ER. They can do things there they wouldn't be able to do in walmart, because it makes them feel entitled and important, even if they aren't paying a cent to be there. So this, along with how horrible and behind the health care system is compared to Australia, Japan, or other single-payer health care systems where everyone is insured, are the main reasons I'm not even going to live near my family and friends to endure this kind of treatment of both patients and staff. In the UK, patients can be removed if they act out of line and do not have a medical condition influencing the behavior. There are WAY less of these problems there. And in the USA, so many 'patients' are drug abusers looking for opiates, who will threaten all kinds of things if you don't fill out their chosen prescription. (Pill mill doctors.) It's ridiculous.
I live in Australia and I really feel for these people. I had a really bad chest infection and due to coughing a did some damage to my intercostal muscles so i went to the ER. I am not insured and I waited for maybe an hour. Doesn't cost a thing! We have a great healthcare system here. the only thing you really need it for is dental and ambulance. A lot of doctors here also do bulk billing which is another good thing.
Ait so how's it going with med school? I'm also planning on being an ER Doctor and am starting college in a few months, any tips from what you've experienced?
I walked out of the ER with a rapidly growing cancerous brain tumor TWICE. I paid for insurance and was working two jobs and going to college. They seen I was from the city, they seen my skin color, my age (21 at the time) and seen how many patients they had and assumed I was getting headaches from pregnancy, simply bc I refused to get a pregnancy test. I had been celibate for 6 years. If I didn't go back and refuse to leave I would of died of hydrocephalus!!!! -3 years cancer free now!! How many people have to almost and actually die for them to change healthcare?? They've got to scrap the whole thing and have people who work and do actual labor in hospitals and the tax payers decide this.
They are not magicians, taking the pregnancy test would have allowed to eliminate idea of pregnancy related issues and move on to the next tests. Stay blessed and healthy
I can absolutely relate to both sides of this issue. I was on Medicaid for 7 years. The primary care doctors are so bad that you're only option is to go to the ER when you're sick. I must have went about 15 times in that period. Something that could be as benign as acid reflux turns into these back and forth visits to the ER because they just rule out life threatening situations, but won't tell you to just take Prilosec. This ends up costing the government 10x more money when they could just have decent doctors in the primary care setting, so patients don't have to run to the ER every time they have a minor complaint. At the same time, people shouldn't go to the ER for a simple cold
the problem is primary care doctors are being pressured to set a quota by the insurance companies. The doctors want nothing more than to spend time with patients but our health care system demands paper work.
The Coffee Nut I don't think that's the case at all. There are some doctors who overbook appointments and as a result they cannot spend more than 5 minutes with a patient. But it has nothing to do with insurance quotas. I've been to doctor's offices where I was the only patient in the waiting room. My earlier statement was in regard to the fact that some of the these doctors have gone to medical school in third world countries, lack board certification, have no bedside manner, so this causes patients to run to the ER and run up unnecessary costs
jane ervin I'm looking at the post and this was almost two years ago...btw, who said I speak for physicians? You say "us" as if you are a physician yourself. Care to provide your real name so we can verify that?
Patient: "If you aren't to me in 20mins I'm going to check myself out." Me: "Woman, if you feel your issue is minor enough that you could go home and marinate, then you shouldn't be here to begin with. Also, chronic abdominal pain is best treated by a GP and costs significantly less."
For the man with diabetes it might be very important to get that drink. Diabetics need to have sugar as soon as their blood sugar drops or they could be in danger. This is why he was given the fizzy drink. Sometimes they are given apple juice, sweets a lollipop or like in this case a fizzy drink.
I remember when I had a severe head fracture, blood etc. and the first thing they did once I entered the hospital was take me to an office IN A GURNEY to ask for my insurance information.
Multihp22 I feel like that would never happen in the USA because people care more about having to pay higher taxes than they care about people. Out taxes go up the tiniest bit and everyone freaks out, it's kinda sad actually because they will say we need free healthcare but if we try to do it they cry about our taxes going up.
Thank God I live in Canada because I don’t have to worry about paying to visit the hospital those people should live in Canada so I don’t have to worry about those expenses anymore
I am grateful and blessed that I have private medical insurance should I ever find myself needing medical care. But, I am doubly blessed that I live in Australia and have Medicare which covers most of my medical bills.
I can’t believe how much people pay for health care that’s disgusting it’s horrific uk here our health care is not the best at all whatsoever but we don’t pay all our wages to keep us alive and healthy I’d move country definitely I would I could not afford that game
*That poor lady with the abdominal pain the lady continued to have is probably IBS or possibly ulcers. It would be cheaper for the ER doctor to prescribe her Bentyl with a ton of refills than to have her keep coming back to the ER and definitely some pain medicine. Obviously if she keeps coming back several times a month, she’s got something seriously wrong and she shouldn’t be neglected*
No one should ever have to choose between keeping the lights or receiving "world class care" I know this being a patient for my psychiatrics and phsyicalcal health , I have a history of e convulsive disorder ( epilepsy) and my high blood pressure , gi issues and heart murmur. IMHO even though I am a young republical but I strongly agree with the hard cold fact that the american health care system is a messy debuckle the need to be fixed and the fact is that there are factor l the biggest of which is the fact the many members of congress and senators are bedfellows bith big pharma and insurance industry insiders and don't want to mend the fence because of fear of the troth coming out.
Iam from SOUTH AFRICA working in one of the bigges hospital group and must say i take my had of for the front line worker. Specially my hospital emergency dept. The Dr's
Even with insurance you still have to wait hours..I only go if it's an emergency...but the people up front don't think it's an emergency and will make you wait..and wait...so then I just want to walk out.
It’s pretty disgusting that Americans are expected to pay a huge bill if they get sick! We moan about our NHS but actually it’s pretty damn amazing compared with the US system. At least we get pretty great care and it’s all covered with the small amount of our taxes. I got sick at the beginning of this year and was in a London hospital for nearly a week. I walk out at the end of it and don’t pay a dime and that’s how it should be. Medicine should be about patients and not how much money they earn. Many homeless people in the US cannot access healthcare because they have no money to pay for it. Disgraceful
I just spent two nights in the hospital due to an infection I got post-op. My insurance was billed $19,000 dollars. I have to pay $3,000. Our system is broken.
I'll call bullish!t on this one. I work in a Level 1 trauma center and you were not taken bleeding on a gurney into an office so they could get your insurance info. Try again.
Hi! From Canada here, yes we have free healthcare but it’s not quality healthcare like you folks down in the US have. We wait hours to see a doctor then pay really high price for prescription
I'm a smoker and yep, I agree that obese people cost the health care system a hell of a lot more than smokers. BTW, if you develop any kind of cancer, forget the health care system. Go online and order vitamin b17...500 MG.... take 3500 MG a day...split it up so you take 3 times a day...WITH FOOD.... 45 days...no more cancer. Just saying....it works
In US there is healthcare for only rich. In India there is no healthcare. Indian govt spends 1% of budget on health compared to 6% that is expected as normal. Indian govt want to weaken Public healthcare system so that people will have to eventually go to appollo and Max and even at corporate hospitals healthcare is not upto mark
Uninsured people keep insisting that they are discriminated against. I doubt it. Also, have some clinics open 24/7 to treat non emergency patients . Less expensive, more time efficient.
Our health care system is pitiful. The ones that get treated are wealthy. I have worked with children on assistance and some have good care but there are a few have not and are pushed out as soon as they can.
I hear time and time again from doctors that a person’s diet and lifestyle will determine, to a great extent, their well being. If you eat poorly and never exercise then your health is going to be terrible especially when you get older.
I know if you pay up front you can get a discount about 33% from a lot of appointments places and some if you are a regular may allow you to start putting some money the 33% not always but does help, So it doesn’t hurt to ask
I don't like it when my pulmonologist asks me to go to the ER for bronchitis, I've had bronchitis so much because I have asthma I'm getting to the point of it's bronchitis again.
my dad had to go in there after he dislocated his shoulder snowboarding. it was awful. we had to wait like 2 hours before he could get in. He was put in the tiniest room and there were like 7 people in there and we didn’t leave till like 11:00 at night and we live 3 hours away so we didn’t get home till 2. i had school the next day and went in 3 hours late cause i got no sleep.
I've been working in health care a long time. Life is complicated and there are no easy answers to fix this problem. If you are watching this and believe you have a simple solution that will fix it, which ever the side of the isle you're on politically, I can assure you it won't work. So don't be so smug and think you know everything.
A person in the actual health care system that doesnt understand you have to pay for service immediately in all other places other than the ER isnt paying enough attention. If you dont have $100 you cant be seen at urgent care. People without insurance do not have PCP
I wish we could all just be taught how to take care of ourselves and do what doctors do, if we all knew the right ways to care we could just take care of our own families and not be so depended on just doctors and the er wouldnt get over crowded the er would be for actual emergency like being shot, stabbed or needing an operation.
Love the series. But i am glad to live in Denmark where we pay for hospital bill through our taxes. So everyone can help without having insurance. So good. My son had 2 heart surgery one at 6 month old and again at 12 years old. And didn't pay anything All the treatment he got maybe costs about 1 million Danish Crown He would have died if he didn't get that surgery. Love from Denmark 🇩🇰 You should have to have the same system its great
It's not the doc it's the practice most times they work for and here in US specialists make far more than European docs so yeah some of them are in it for the money not just debt payoff. When you want to see a doc you have to pay up front and then they will see you, you pay lab costs to a separate company, x-rays cat scans etc to another company and medicine at the drug store. If you have insurance and only if that office agrees to accept it will they bill you. Then you have copays your upfront cost to see a doc and then whatever insurance doesn't cover say they pay 80 and visit 100 you have to pay as well.
The Melodies Official Channel my sister lived in Canada and when she had to see a doctor she had to wait and wait. She had cancer she couldn’t wait. She died 10 years ago
i feel so bad and sorry for my parents because they have to pay tons of money even with insurance for doctors. Nobody knows what's wrong with me for a year and now insurance are telling us that they are not going to pay as much as they did for last year.
"Yeah, he was all grumpy and he chewed on ya, huh?" - Not really therapeutic to a 3/4 year old. But I laughed so hard...
In Australia, the government pays for our healthcare, and we give it back by paying for advanced transport options, speeding fines and tollways. We're not rich, but we're alive and fed.
+FraggingBard wow
The gov. is the people lol.
This is why I’m a proud Aussie, and the gun laws are good too
and this is exactly why i want to move back to australia. man oh man america sucks. truly. 😂
It is Not totally free...we do pay a levy on our taxes to at least help pay the cost of healthcare ....the rest is from high taxes on everything....but at least we can get healthcare, especially when an emergency...I am grateful for what we do have 💙💙
I feel awful for that doctor who worries about the patients who are not insured. He shouldn't have to worry about this. He should be able to treat people without hat worry. This is why US healthcare is so dreadful. You need a single payer system - it'll also be a lot cheaper.
I couldn't agree more. The doctor should not be worrying himself about which patients have insurance and which ones do not. That factor alone should not and cannot effect the care he provides. Regardless, he has to see and treat that patient. A doctor or hospital cannot refuse care to anyone only because of their lack of insurance. The nurses and doctors in this video made a very good point. A lot of the patients that they get daily are not emergency cases. Cases that are not emergent are the cases that prolong the waiting time, create delays, and create staffing issues for the hospital. If there were mire family practitioners that would be willing to take on a patient that does not have health insurance it would solve a lot of the Emergency Department complaints all over the country. The one nurse made a good point, that they should create more clinics available to those without insurance so that they would not have to go to the hospital for care. Also, making insurance available to everyone would crowd waiting rooms for a year or two until they can find the staff and the facilities to treat all the people that can finally seek treatment.
Mr. Handy come to Germany. Yes, there will be wait times but federal hospitals are not allowed to turn you away, even if it is a minor thing.
Nicole K that’s every doctor my dad tells me about this all the time because I want to go into neurosurgery.
Eat shit socialist swine
What’s the point of having the equipment and technology if it isn’t available to such a large segment of the population?
I think free health care should be available for everyone
Thomas Newton how are they going to come up with that money......the doctors and nurses are not going to work for free.....if free health care for everyone was available tax payers would have to pay more taxes
There is no such thing as "free" healthcare. In places where "free" healthcare is in effect, the citizens are *still* paying for it through increased taxes (which adds up to about the same expense as paying directly for private insurance). *Nothing is ever free.*
Ok fine "Universal Healthcare", whatever you want to call it. Doesn't mean it wouldn't be the best system.
Let me guess....housing should be free too? You do realize that nothing is EVER free, right? Someone has to pay.
As a future RN hell no I want to help people but the US is in enough debt and countries that have systems like what you believe we should have take out huge taxes.
One time my doctor admitted me to the ER for my mental health state and I honest to God felt so bad for wasting their time. I didn't even want to be admitted and every nurse and doctor looked at me like I was wasting their time, which I knew. I had no idea how crazy it really was for them until now
You weren't wasting anyone's time. Mental health is just as serious as physical health. If that's the way they made you feel, maybe you were reading into things too much, the hospital staff might have been tired, or they just weren't good nurses and doctors. I'm glad your well now.
Healthcare professional here: You absolutely did not waste anyone's time. Having psych admits in the ED is a normal part of working on that unit. This is particularly true in the US where we don't have a good health insurance system so people with mental health issues don't get adequate care and end up in crisis.
I don't know why I feel like this would be a depressing hospital to be at.
In Belgium, at least every homeless person has right for medical care without the need of paying bills. It's a crime to refuse medical care.
I can watch all kinds of health care things without blinking an eye, but seeing that child brought in via Life Flight, intubated, was heart wrenching for me. My little brother died on a Life Flight. He arrived at the Children’s Hospital intubated, having been resuscitated several times. He was declared DOA, dead on arrival.
Cassie C I am so sorry for your loss! I can't imagine how hard that was/is. May God bless you and your family! 💗🙏🏻
So sorry I almost died on a life flight as well it is those moments where u start to question your future.
“Americans enjoy one of the highest levels of care in the world”
And also have to pay for everything themselves
In Europe we have to pay the government half our salary, so everybody pays. Stop whining
@@mixrable1212 all my taxes, national insurance etc is like 18% of my annual salary
Glad i live In Australia for this reason. Free healthcare
Megan Sparnon What’s the qualifying criteria out there for free or low cost health care?
@@musicgirl999 everybody qualifies!
Payed for through taxes does not equal free. Someone is funding it one way or another. Doctors and nurses still have to be payed.
Nothing is free fool.
Jeff Spehar ok you're right. nothing is for free.
but that money i spend in taxes to have health care is welll worth it
Born and raised in the U.S and I hear of all these other countries with free health care and I think that's great, so why not here, but money will always rule this country before anything else and that's sad...
My grandad had a pain in his chest that he thought was indigestion He took my cousins to school and played 18 holes of golf, he then felt strange so went to the hospital where they checked him over then rushed him to the er because that chest pain was a massive heart attack and he required a quadruple bypass surgery
Now he is fine and still plays golg
+The DJE *golf
The DJE so glad he's okay!
The DJE
I love you too baby girl my dotr
In Canada, we have universal health care and that's the bare minimum. Wait times, not enough staff, tight funding, are just a few. We have one of the highest price rates for prescriptions, meaning we're paying hundreds out of pocket.
I'm glad health care is free here in the UK because if it wasn't me and my family would probably be on the streets.
It's alarming that the medical staff wouldn't believe their patients when they claim that their primary care physicians sent them to the ER. That's exactly how my daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor; I took her to her pediatrician who then sent us directly to the ER to get a CAT of her brain based upon her symptoms.
Just curious, do you not get a referral letter or anything like that from the primary care docs? Surely that's proof enough for the hospitals? I'm from Malaysia and that's how our system works.
I thought the exact same thing when she said that.
I hope your daughter is ok
Same thing with my appendix
I once had three herniated discs in my back which is extremely painful and doctors will say it’s one of the most painful things you can experience. The ER doctor did NOT believe me because I was saying I couldn’t feel anything in my right leg and only had excruciating pain when sitting. He literally screamed at me and yanked on my leg hard because he thought I was lying. It wasn’t until my MRI came back that he believed me and decided to call in a neurosurgeon. Doctors don’t care.
edukid1984 Usually the doctor calls ahead and says you’re coming in. But I guess the don’t all do that.
This is why I'm glad I live in Canada. The US is fucked when it comes to health care. Having to pay for health is ridiculous.
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+Amanda Cormier Why is it ridiculous? Just because you are in need doesn't mean that others have a duty to supply your need. Medical care is a service just like any other. Why shouldn't physicians and nurses be compensated for their work?
Because it's so sad that you have to pay thousands of dollars just to get care for being sick. It doesn't make sense. Oh I'm sorry you're dying but you must pay us $5000.
+Amanda Cormier A hell of a lot more then that.
+Amanda Cormier Hoser
Thank God I live in the UK regarding this. NHS is a beautiful thing.
Substandard care, long wait times, no options for elective surgery to help improve life and still paid for through higher taxes.. yup beautiful thing
@gotwoh3ll read your username
This is why I love the Canadian Health Care System..
Just don't get sick on the weekends, and don't get hurt, because even with a broken arm you will wait 10 hours in the ER in canada
Dudefromspace567 depends what ER you go to. but i'd rather wait 10 hours and pay nothing, rather than wait 2 hours and pay thousands.
taylor koziak maynard If you have insurance than it barely costs anything, I have been to the ER in america and it costed me like 50 dollars out of pocket and I got very prompt and high quality care
Dudefromspace567 and what if you have been diagnosed with something like appendicitis? up to 50k for an appendectomy? what then? it's free for us. my good friend just had it
taylor koziak maynard Do you not understand how insurance works? The hospital bills 50k to the insurance who pays like 5k and then you pay as low as a 100 dollar copay. Stop saying it is free for you guys, nothing is free, you pay taxes that pay for healthcare, we pay for insurance that is most likely payed through an employer or medicare for the retired (and provide insurance for those who cannot afford it through taxes)
Since childhood I have had problems with my heart. Now due to my age I have more problems that require constant treatment and medication. Fortunately in the UK we have our NHS. Today I had an MRI scan that would have emptied my pockets if not the the NHS. We are so lucky here. Visit the ER or the GP and get world class treatment. If the UK can have an NHS then why can't other countries like the USA do the same?
god bless you I hope you are better.
+linenfish 0568 Thank you. God bless you too.
In England we are taxed some of that goes to Health care called the NHS.
I think it's a great system.
I hope you get better with the grace of God. x
Thank you. God bless you my friend.
awwww that sucks💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
I'm staying up late every night watching and researching about er nursing because that's what I want to do when I grow up and I don't learn any of this stuff at school so..
Leah Kelly Good idea...
Did you end up becoming a nurse?
@@mitenshah2499 only 17 now and I’m going to college in the fall for medical laboratory science!
As a medical student dead set on specializing in emergency medicine, there are far too many reasons to finish a Ph.D. in America, then high tail it ASAP to another country after residency. What isn't covered in this video is the culture. There are countless times patients or their families will come in acting way out of conduct, treating the medical staff like they are fast food service employees. (Screaming, threatening violence, threatening lawsuits or filing a corporate complaint if they don't get A and B in 5 minutes.) There are even flashing neon signs at some ERs in larger cities advertising wait times.
The ER administration are generally business people, and value "customer service" more than "professional care." It would be malpractice to throw out someone who was violent and ranting away if there was anything medically wrong with them at all, and ambulance chasing lawyers will be more than happy to obliage to them, stating their behavior was something medically wrong and it's our fault entirely.
All in all, people can get away with acting like spoiled children in the ER. They can do things there they wouldn't be able to do in walmart, because it makes them feel entitled and important, even if they aren't paying a cent to be there.
So this, along with how horrible and behind the health care system is compared to Australia, Japan, or other single-payer health care systems where everyone is insured, are the main reasons I'm not even going to live near my family and friends to endure this kind of treatment of both patients and staff.
In the UK, patients can be removed if they act out of line and do not have a medical condition influencing the behavior. There are WAY less of these problems there. And in the USA, so many 'patients' are drug abusers looking for opiates, who will threaten all kinds of things if you don't fill out their chosen prescription. (Pill mill doctors.) It's ridiculous.
+Erika Grimm PREACH
As a retired RN,I need to say this to you: FIND ANOTHER CAREER! Your profound lack of empathy is unacceptable!!!
I live in Australia and I really feel for these people. I had a really bad chest infection and due to coughing a did some damage to my intercostal muscles so i went to the ER. I am not insured and I waited for maybe an hour. Doesn't cost a thing! We have a great healthcare system here. the only thing you really need it for is dental and ambulance. A lot of doctors here also do bulk billing which is another good thing.
One emergency visit will break you...
An ER visit where i live is seriously $250. An ambulance ride varies, but it can sometimes be over $100
Kaity V my ambulance rides were $1500 and $2000... all I got on the ambulance was a bag of IV fluids each time and Zofran the one time.
@@jessicaziegler5531 ambulance fees are ridiculous, and the price only goes up by the miles.
youre lucky, mines are in the thousands $5000 for an visit, at least
God bless the doctors and nurses in hospitals
im in the first phase of becoming a ER Doctor. Really hope this is sorted out. I just want to help people.
Ait Wow good luck my Goal is to be a Neurosurgeon I'm gonna be 18 and far from it! Lol
lølstrass Great age to be on that journey because it's a long one. All the best
i wanna be a general surgeon. more or less cause i like blood and guts lol.
Ait so how's it going with med school? I'm also planning on being an ER Doctor and am starting college in a few months, any tips from what you've experienced?
Ait Go for it! Maybe you can help fix our broken system. We need more doctors like you.
I walked out of the ER with a rapidly growing cancerous brain tumor TWICE. I paid for insurance and was working two jobs and going to college. They seen I was from the city, they seen my skin color, my age (21 at the time) and seen how many patients they had and assumed I was getting headaches from pregnancy, simply bc I refused to get a pregnancy test. I had been celibate for 6 years. If I didn't go back and refuse to leave I would of died of hydrocephalus!!!!
-3 years cancer free now!!
How many people have to almost and actually die for them to change healthcare?? They've got to scrap the whole thing and have people who work and do actual labor in hospitals and the tax payers decide this.
lashawnda barnett wow, this is sad. Thanks for sharing
Congrats on being cancer free. I just finished chemo recently, and have been cancer free for 3 weeks.
"They SAW I was from the city, they SAW my skin color.." It's awesome you're cancer free! Perhaps you can go back to school now?
They are not magicians, taking the pregnancy test would have allowed to eliminate idea of pregnancy related issues and move on to the next tests. Stay blessed and healthy
well maybe you should go straight back to college because it's not "they seen", but oh well black will be black aye
Frequent flyers waste precious, valuable time of medical staff.
In my country Mauritius, Health care is free and education too. It is being fund by taxes, fines and etc we pay...
I can absolutely relate to both sides of this issue. I was on Medicaid for 7 years. The primary care doctors are so bad that you're only option is to go to the ER when you're sick. I must have went about 15 times in that period. Something that could be as benign as acid reflux turns into these back and forth visits to the ER because they just rule out life threatening situations, but won't tell you to just take Prilosec. This ends up costing the government 10x more money when they could just have decent doctors in the primary care setting, so patients don't have to run to the ER every time they have a minor complaint. At the same time, people shouldn't go to the ER for a simple cold
the problem is primary care doctors are being pressured to set a quota by the insurance companies. The doctors want nothing more than to spend time with patients but our health care system demands paper work.
The Coffee Nut I don't think that's the case at all. There are some doctors who overbook appointments and as a result they cannot spend more than 5 minutes with a patient. But it has nothing to do with insurance quotas. I've been to doctor's offices where I was the only patient in the waiting room. My earlier statement was in regard to the fact that some of the these doctors have gone to medical school in third world countries, lack board certification, have no bedside manner, so this causes patients to run to the ER and run up unnecessary costs
+coolman949 Are you a Physician? Didn't think so. Stop speaking for us. Thanks.
jane ervin I'm looking at the post and this was almost two years ago...btw, who said I speak for physicians? You say "us" as if you are a physician yourself. Care to provide your real name so we can verify that?
Every human being should have a right to health care.
Dr.Ralph was right in what he said re gov spending time there.
Patient: "If you aren't to me in 20mins I'm going to check myself out."
Me: "Woman, if you feel your issue is minor enough that you could go home and marinate, then you shouldn't be here to begin with. Also, chronic abdominal pain is best treated by a GP and costs significantly less."
As an Australian, I wonder if the president has ever looked at how our public works?
One thing I can't stand are doctors and nurses that treat patients like crap because they don't have insurance.
Seems like everyone gets a fizzy drink in the hospital. Even the guy complaining about his diabetes bills!!!!
For the man with diabetes it might be very important to get that drink. Diabetics need to have sugar as soon as their blood sugar drops or they could be in danger. This is why he was given the fizzy drink. Sometimes they are given apple juice, sweets a lollipop or like in this case a fizzy drink.
I remember when I had a severe head fracture, blood etc. and the first thing they did once I entered the hospital was take me to an office IN A GURNEY to ask for my insurance information.
yep, thats the first thing they care about
The ED I work in is the only trauma center in 4 counties. It’s busy, it’s chaotic. The system is not broken, it’s shattered.
The guy at 4:50 has a swastika tattoo
Josh Deffenbaugh
I know
Probably why he doesn't have health insurance -- uneducated!
Iyla Lacoste wow, can you be anymore judging.🙄
Hes probably reformed
thank god here un brazil we have a Free health care System.
I never pay my medicines, or appointments. ever10 for Free
Multihp22 I feel like that would never happen in the USA because people care more about having to pay higher taxes than they care about people. Out taxes go up the tiniest bit and everyone freaks out, it's kinda sad actually because they will say we need free healthcare but if we try to do it they cry about our taxes going up.
Not that long, bout to 15/20 minutes, pretty good
Good...then stay in Brazil.
So much to learn from this
I live in the UK and the government pays for health care so I'm very lucky I would not be able to pay if I lived in the united states
I am so glad I am Canadian.. we get it all for free
and so a lot of times the system gets abused by frequents flyers to ER for non emergent issues.
Until you get cancer and you run out of treatment options, because the government wont pay for it.
Amanda Cormier Yeah we get it free in my country too
There is no such thing as free healthcare.. Ya’ll are paying, but in different ways.
And, you also get turned away when your hospitals and clinics are full.
I don't pay for Rx's, Dr's visits,Surgery/hospital stays,Ambulance,I'm blessed I live in Canada
Thank God I live in Canada because I don’t have to worry about paying to visit the hospital those people should live in Canada so I don’t have to worry about those expenses anymore
Thanks God I'm living in Malaysia 🇲🇾
Fortunately we now have a system where people can obtain comprehensive insurance without going broke.
I am grateful and blessed that I have private medical insurance should I ever find myself needing medical care. But, I am doubly blessed that I live in Australia and have Medicare which covers most of my medical bills.
I can’t believe how much people pay for health care that’s disgusting it’s horrific uk here our health care is not the best at all whatsoever but we don’t pay all our wages to keep us alive and healthy I’d move country definitely I would I could not afford that game
This problem with uninsured pts. will continue to get worse with the end of the ACA
*That poor lady with the abdominal pain the lady continued to have is probably IBS or possibly ulcers. It would be cheaper for the ER doctor to prescribe her Bentyl with a ton of refills than to have her keep coming back to the ER and definitely some pain medicine. Obviously if she keeps coming back several times a month, she’s got something seriously wrong and she shouldn’t be neglected*
I like this. Gosh, I just need to finish those chemistry courses and apply to nursing school. So awesome. ❤️🌷🥳🙏🏻
I'm 13 and I think that I want to go into this field too.
The answer to this is to lower the cost of schooling so that the pay expectation for healthcare professionals will be lower, thus lowering the cost
That lady with the abdomen pain is drug seeking...
+Erin Slater Bingo!
+Erin Slater DRUGGIE FOR SURE
+Erin Slater I was just thinking that too haha
Or period LOL Even tho she's old asf
Dont just assume that.
How right that doc was.
look wizards of waverly place at 8:19
What pissed me off is they say get a primary doctor,yet you call a primary doctor,they say I'm not excepting new patiants! Now what? Jerks!
Primary doctor's don't except new patients, because they're already bogged down with patients. Duh. There are not enough doctors out there.
No one should ever have to choose between keeping the lights or receiving "world class care" I know this being a patient for my psychiatrics and phsyicalcal health , I have a history of e convulsive disorder ( epilepsy) and my high blood pressure , gi issues and heart murmur. IMHO even though I am a young republical but I strongly agree with the hard cold fact that the american health care system is a messy debuckle the need to be fixed and the fact is that there are factor l the biggest of which is the fact the many members of congress and senators are bedfellows bith big pharma and insurance industry insiders and don't want to mend the fence because of fear of the troth coming out.
Good luck finding a PCP that has new patients spots available and that takes your insurance. That is why we end up in an ER when we have a simple flu
Iam from SOUTH AFRICA working in one of the bigges hospital group and must say i take my had of for the front line worker. Specially my hospital emergency dept. The Dr's
I tried to sign up for insurance in the US. Cheapest plan was nearly $700 a month with a $6000 deductible. Forget it.
Even with insurance you still have to wait hours..I only go if it's an emergency...but the people up front don't think it's an emergency and will make you wait..and wait...so then I just want to walk out.
Healthcare should not be a debate it should be free for all Americans.
I don't go to the Accident & Emergency Unit unless push comes to shove
And why are there so many uninsured patients? I mean I don’t understand how works this health care system
It’s pretty disgusting that Americans are expected to pay a huge bill if they get sick! We moan about our NHS but actually it’s pretty damn amazing compared with the US system. At least we get pretty great care and it’s all covered with the small amount of our taxes. I got sick at the beginning of this year and was in a London hospital for nearly a week. I walk out at the end of it and don’t pay a dime and that’s how it should be. Medicine should be about patients and not how much money they earn. Many homeless people in the US cannot access healthcare because they have no money to pay for it. Disgraceful
That's what I dislike so much im living in Tx i have insurance but people come in to the ER for a little cough or there big toe hurts really
12:42 poor Lisa. She seems to be stuck in the clinical room.
I just spent two nights in the hospital due to an infection I got post-op. My insurance was billed $19,000 dollars. I have to pay $3,000. Our system is broken.
Do what the hospital closest to me did and open an urgent care near by to accommodate the people that need seen but not an emergency
I'll call bullish!t on this one. I work in a Level 1 trauma center and you were not taken bleeding on a gurney into an office so they could get your insurance info. Try again.
Hi! From Canada here, yes we have free healthcare but it’s not quality healthcare like you folks down in the US have. We wait hours to see a doctor then pay really high price for prescription
Tell em about the dental costs? 200-300 for a cleaning! Geusse what's NOT covered in canada?dental.
awesome video. Amazing work. learnt a lot from this clip.
I heard one nurse say that smokers should have to pay higher health care premiums but I never heard her mention obese people.
I'm a smoker and yep, I agree that obese people cost the health care system a hell of a lot more than smokers. BTW, if you develop any kind of cancer, forget the health care system. Go online and order vitamin b17...500 MG.... take 3500 MG a day...split it up so you take 3 times a day...WITH FOOD.... 45 days...no more cancer. Just saying....it works
Hooray for the Australian healthcare system.
and i thought that it was just here in my country, india.. but i guess the whole health care system everywhere is broken!
In US there is healthcare for only rich. In India there is no healthcare. Indian govt spends 1% of budget on health compared to 6% that is expected as normal. Indian govt want to weaken Public healthcare system so that people will have to eventually go to appollo and Max and even at corporate hospitals healthcare is not upto mark
I didn't know I was rich.
fast learner
US spends 4.3 and India 1.4 %
Uninsured people keep insisting that they are discriminated against. I doubt it. Also, have some clinics open 24/7 to treat non emergency patients . Less expensive, more time efficient.
Our health care system is pitiful. The ones that get treated are wealthy. I have worked with children on assistance and some have good care but there are a few have not and are pushed out as soon as they can.
I hear time and time again from doctors that a person’s diet and lifestyle will determine, to a great extent, their well being. If you eat poorly and never exercise then your health is going to be terrible especially when you get older.
I know if you pay up front you can get a discount about 33% from a lot of appointments places and some if you are a regular may allow you to start putting some money the 33% not always but does help, So it doesn’t hurt to ask
What the Government is doing to our Health Care is downright Horrifying not to mention Deadly.
Poor little girl I was 10 at the time and the same thing happened to me and I'm 5,5 and the same thing happened to my legs
I could have been a dead 10 year old
I don't like it when my pulmonologist asks me to go to the ER for bronchitis, I've had bronchitis so much because I have asthma I'm getting to the point of it's bronchitis again.
This situation is devastating. And it is only getting worse. :(
WTF DUDE LOTS OF STUFF GOES ON IN THE US AT LEAST THEY ARE NEVER FLIPPING BORED
Actually the modern ambulance is the frontline of emergency medicine!
my dad had to go in there after he dislocated his shoulder snowboarding. it was awful. we had to wait like 2 hours before he could get in. He was put in the tiniest room and there were like 7 people in there and we didn’t leave till like 11:00 at night and we live 3 hours away so we didn’t get home till 2. i had school the next day and went in 3 hours late cause i got no sleep.
Funny to think that the little kids in this are now in high school and or college now/
I was 4 to 5 years old in 2009 , now I’m finishing my year 2 at college
I've been working in health care a long time. Life is complicated and there are no easy answers to fix this problem. If you are watching this and believe you have a simple solution that will fix it, which ever the side of the isle you're on politically, I can assure you it won't work. So don't be so smug and think you know everything.
Can't believe how many people are for universal healthcare.... until they have it and find out all the drawbacks!!!
"Americans enjoy one of the highest levels of care in the world" unless of course, they are uninsured and poor.
A person in the actual health care system that doesnt understand you have to pay for service immediately in all other places other than the ER isnt paying enough attention. If you dont have $100 you cant be seen at urgent care. People without insurance do not have PCP
I wish we could all just be taught how to take care of ourselves and do what doctors do, if we all knew the right ways to care we could just take care of our own families and not be so depended on just doctors and the er wouldnt get over crowded the er would be for actual emergency like being shot, stabbed or needing an operation.
Love the series. But i am glad to live in Denmark where we pay for hospital bill through our taxes. So everyone can help without having insurance. So good.
My son had 2 heart surgery one at 6 month old and again at 12 years old. And didn't pay anything
All the treatment he got maybe costs about 1 million Danish Crown
He would have died if he didn't get that surgery.
Love from Denmark 🇩🇰
You should have to have the same system its great
ER patients best not be impatient….. people are seen in order of severity. That is why it is Emergency Room, not appointment desk.
Health Care by emergency room sucks and there are many of us with chronic conditions who do it because doctors want money up front.
If they want money they wouldn't go through 8 years of school (if you don't include residency) and become 500k in debt.
It's not the doc it's the practice most times they work for and here in US specialists make far more than European docs so yeah some of them are in it for the money not just debt payoff. When you want to see a doc you have to pay up front and then they will see you, you pay lab costs to a separate company, x-rays cat scans etc to another company and medicine at the drug store. If you have insurance and only if that office agrees to accept it will they bill you. Then you have copays your upfront cost to see a doc and then whatever insurance doesn't cover say they pay 80 and visit 100 you have to pay as well.
Excellent video, interesting watching this in 2021, to see the perspectives of those 12 years ago now... (2009).
In Canada, we have free health care. Ya-HOO!!!
The Melodies Official Channel my sister lived in Canada and when she had to see a doctor she had to wait and wait. She had cancer she couldn’t wait. She died 10 years ago
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4 hours to be seen? People come to my ER and wait 6 or 8 hours.
i feel so bad and sorry for my parents because they have to pay tons of money even with insurance for doctors. Nobody knows what's wrong with me for a year and now insurance are telling us that they are not going to pay as much as they did for last year.
is it just me or does everyone in that hospital seem jaded?
What do you mean?
Jane Doe well yeah when you work with people that tends to happen
Jane Doe of course they would be
If you're so overworked, understaffed and all, of course you'd become jaded eventually