Why US Healthcare Is So Broken
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The US isn't spending more on healthcare than any other country. The US is spending more paying CEOs of health insurance companies than any other country. Our money isn't going to healthcare. It's going to business owners. That's why we have poor outcomes.
Its called fascism. Its an economic modals closer to communism . Then capitalism.
@@smartass0124what?
@@smartass0124no, this is the capitalist dream come true. It’s not communist or socialist. It’s pure, unfettered capitalism. It needs checks and balances. It needs reform.
@@smartass0124Could you please point to a fascist uprising that advocated for a stateless, moneyless, classless society?
@@smartass0124 uh, did you mean closer to capitalism? Go back in history and you'll find capitalists siding with fascists to protect their profits. Start with car companies like Mercedes Benz, Ford, BMW and Audi, should make for an interesting read.
As a registered nurse working in healthcare (and honestly as a normal citizen) this healthcare system is the most broken thing about this country
I think the for profit prison system is definitely in the running, and I bet private defense contractors are some frighteningly awful people, too. We unfortunately have a lot of big problems.
There are many evil things going on. It isn't just healthcare.
@@Pistolita221 Part of Reagan's and Thatcher's pushes for neoliberalism involved seizing upon United Staters' admiration for the big industrialists of the '890s or so, and convincing the populace that everything should be run like a corporation, including the public commons where it's inherently a conflict of interest.
@@scifirealism5943 Oh I’m fully aware of that. To me healthcare is at the top of the list
@@kiki13450 I see.
20 some years ago I was working as a nurse in a nursing home. I had a patient, a 30 some year-old Black woman who had Bariatric surgery that went way wrong. She had a massive infection that became septic. She lost her Liver and Kidneys and had to be intubated. She came to us on a transplant list. We were to keep her alive until a liver and kidney transplant could be found. She tried every day, in some way to kill herself. And I asked her one day why. And she said why should I live? I said for your children. And she said they are better off without me. I said but you are on a transplant list. She looked at me and said, and I will carry this in my heart till the day I die...She said, "And, just how far up that list do you think a black single mother who works at McDonalds is"? She decannulated herself and died on Christmas day. We are not a compassionate nation!
Jesus Christ this is so sad
mio Dio che storia terribilie , nonostante tutti i nostri problemi , per la sanita' sono fortunato a vivere in Europa.
This makes me so mad. How many more people are going through this :(
"The system is fucked" pretty much describes almost everything in the US. But, this is what happens when you let capitalism dictate how everything is run.
But what economic system could do it without these problems? And what about this economic system makes it so that the problems won’t occur again?
It just doesn't work. The moment somebody starts selling stocks, the price skyrockets. The absurd increase in the cost of tuition started in the early 90s right around the time that change in some law made it possible to securitize student debt and sell it to third party investors. It's the same pattern over and over again, yet people twist themselves into pretzels to pretend otherwise because they're so emotionally attached to this long dead and discredited religious conception of capitalism that comes from the Cold War period.
@@aycc-nbh7289 The issue is that we're trying to treat things which are public goods as if they are private commodities that people consume. Not everything is a commodity, so market models aren't appropriate to any number of institutions. They are not appropriate to the criminal justice system, the educational system, and arguably institutions tasked with keeping the population healthy. If they are appropriate to Walmart, retailers, or industries that sell goods to consumers to be consumed is a separate question.
Capitalism is about rational incentives. If consumers and producers aren't rational, then their behavior can't be modeled or predicted. If that's the case, you can kiss your models goodbye. You can also say goodbye to any possible justification for capitalism. So the whole thing is about what incentives and disincentives are presented to producers and consumers.
In the case of Walmart, what is financially profitable is what is financially profitable, so you can make an argument for markets wherever somebody is selling material goods that people consume, but in the case of healthcare, literally the opposite of what the institution is supposed to produce is what's financially profitable. If you sell cures, then your rational incentive isn't to keep people healthy, it's to make people sick or ignore the factors that make them sick so you can turn a profit. In the case of institutions that uphold justice, what happens when injustice is financially profitable? You get injustice, so private prison companies lobby for absurd laws so they can keep prisons full and turn a profit. In the case of institutions that are tasked with telling the truth, what happens if lies are financially profitable? And so on and so on. A healthy population, justice, and truth aren't commodities so market models and financial incentives aren't appropriate to them.
@@GlynDwr-d4h The people who ultimately make the money would still have similar incentives under an alternative system, though. And while I don’t agree that we should abolish public services like police departments and fire brigades any time soon, people who live in areas where these sorts of services are poor in quality are left with a sentiment of “That’s what you get and you don’t get upset”.
@@aycc-nbh7289 You don't have those incentives if you can't get rich. If you want to get rich, go elsewhere and work in the commercial part of society.
They should teach this stuff in high school, in a Sociology class. I try & push universal healthcare & am baffled how ppl vote AGAINST themselves.🙄
They don’t want to believe that they followed a lie, they were taught to white knuckle it and earn everything bit by bit… and free loaders are sloven miscreants…. Because the nobles and lords need good peasants….
unfortunately teachers would likely get kicked out of education in a lot of states for trying to teach this
Yeah, people who are more willing to pay 4x more to a private insurance company that can deny claims with almost no oversight than they would for public healthcare and increased coverage make me insane.
People are so indoctrinated to think "tax = bad" that they'd rather spend 20% of their income on health care and insurance than a 15% tax increase.
And they just won't believe you if you explain that it can be done without increasing their taxes.
I teach German. I sneak it in when we talk about the differences between the American and German health care systems. It’s an eye opener for my kids, I can tell you.
There was a news story, years back, where a group of US physicians toured a Canadian mid-level hospital. Some were shocked that a national healthcare system had a hospital with an MRI, modern heart-monitors, x-ray machines, and fully functional ORs.
My own Canadian GP tells me that when talking to a US GP; the US GP was totally shocked his Canadian counterpart only spent 30-60 minutes a week doing billing himself whereas the US GP had to hire a full-time accountant to process his billing.
Fun fact, nearly half of Drs without Borders missions are in the USA providing 1 time medical care to those who need it. In Texas, with just word of mouth alone a 3 day mission ran 24hr non-stop filling a stadium to capacity.
I think its laughable when GOP members accuse national healthcare would lead to "death committees" who would determine who lives and who dies when health insurers have for decades operated "death committees", euphemistically renamed of course, who determine who does and who does not get healthcare.
Not to mention that when actual doctors "decide who dies" they are doing it to save the maximum amount of people possible whilst insurers have a monetary incentive to save the least amount of people possible. They would literally let all of the people they insured die If they could just to make more profits.
Hi, this is a friend from Brazil. I haven't even played the video, but I'll comment straight away. It's hard to believe that the wealthiest country in the world doesn't have a completely free healthcare system. My wife, for instance, is an obstetrician and works in a public hospital. Sometimes, she and her team perform 10 deliveries during a 12-hour shift. COMPLETELY FREE. AND FOR ANYONE IN THE WORLD. You don't have to be Brazilian. Just walk into the hospital in labor, and you're good to go. You'll be taken care of without paying a single dollar. If it's possible in Brazil, it's very possible in America.
Do you have millions of illegal immigrants coming to your country every year? They all get free health care in the US. Along with free housing and food and on and on. We take care of everyone else as our country crumbles.
Nothing got to do with immigration mate. Country's all over the world have immigration and free health care. Your political hero's are lying to you.
@@bigmike9433none of your statements are true. Maybe stop watching Fox News?
@@bigmike9433…source? That doesn’t really sound like something the USA would do. I’d like to check for myself.
The first commenter to this might have forgotten how difficult it is for a non-naturalborn person to achieve Naturalization in the USA. It takes on average 8 years for people who were eventually able to naruralize.
> 2 years to process application for a green card.
> 5 years of required work in USA.
~ 1 year for Naturalization processing, if not arbitrarily denied.
Many "illegal immigrants" here in the USA would have already become full citizens in most other countries, so it seems disingenuous to say we suffer to their benefit.
Can we just all acknowledge there are just some people in this country who simply do not care about, nor want, better standards for ALL Americans?
Amen
Yeah democrats
@@osmosisjones4912 I see you drink paint for fun
@@osmosisjones4912Milk goes on cereal not paint thinner
@@osmosisjones4912 👏Reagan👏introduced👏Neoliberalism 👏
Kohl did in Germany, horrible economists !!!!!!!
The worst disease in America?
GREED...
And you want something for FREE? LOL!
You are what you hate pal.
greed is good
@@7DK7DKGreed wastes resources to fighting over them. Greed makes people hoard wealth and resources, which if spread evenly would keep everyone healthy, happy, and housed.
@@Redhornsandeyes greed is the greatest motivator for mankind and has allowed us to progress. I would rather 51% of people are euphoric than 100% content...
@@7DK7DK So you asking for something you did not pay for is good?
I think the biggest problem with the American healthcare system is obviously all the things you discussed in this video but I personally pay $600 a month for insurance for family care and yet any time I need to use the coverage I end up having to pay hundreds of dollars out-of-pocket just to see a doctor it makes people irritated and mad because of the fact that we’re paying thousands of thousands of dollars per year for a plan that still requires us to spend thousands of dollars more out of pocket to eventually Get a cheaper cut on the co-pay. Sometimes that number is like $5000 per person in order to reduce the cost that you pay out-of-pocket. Now most people do not need constant insurance access or healthcare access but yet we’ve designed the system so that we have to keep paying for insurance pumping money into the coffers of the house insurance company, so that they can continue to make cost ridiculously high, because they have so much red tape involved in the process that they never have enough money to cover the full cost.
During Covid America got to witness at least for the first time and all of our generations the complete and utter failure that is the American healthcare system. We did not have enough beds. We did not have enough nurses we did not have enough doctors. Do you have a virus that was attacking everyone we couldn’t protect the people who were supposed to help us . We did not have the infrastructure to support the population of this country, and its medical needs.
American healthcare will never change until we get money out of politics… In fact, nothing will change until we get money out of politics
Exactly
Right
Minimum wage for politicians and make lobbying illegal.
Redtape doesn't make it more expensive. It pays itself by making possible to deny many fair claims.
I understand completely. I pay $580/MO for a $12,000 deductible Health "Savings" Account that doesn't cover a penny until I have paid $22K out of pocket.
99% of the time I spend $8000-$10,000 per year out of pocket and never got my deductible, so BCBS makes $7000 per year to not provide a product.
Honestly its still quite weird to me that as a citizen of not exactly wealthy post-socialist country I can go to a doctor or study a college without worrying about money, while Americans with all that wealth of the US have to pay so much money for it.
Anything and everything has been comodified in the US
The US is the richest "poor" country due to Republicans constantly cutting taxes, thus keeping us in a cycle of debt.
We hear “if you don’t like it, leave” in the US all the time. I most definitely would leave if I could.
I think it has a lot to do with the myth of the individual in US culture. We really love the stories of "self-made" people, and you often hear Americans in presentations saying things like "I worked 2 jobs and went to college full time." Someone from outside the US may hear that and think it's unfair and unhealthy, but Americans are socialized to hear that with a sense of hope, "If I'm willing to work 2 jobs and go to college, I will get to be rich and famous!" It's not true, of course, we work ourselves to death, we go into enormous debt, and our healthcare system is designed to milk us for profit. But we're all conditioned to feel like we're the main character, and everything the system does to us is just a way to build ourselves up and become a real life superhero.
American culture is silly.
@@exquisitecorpse4917Glad I checked the comments before I typed mine since I was also going to mention the role of Individual Responsibility a,k.a "Rugged Individualism" a.ka. "Pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps in American Society.
Ah, the American healthcare system. Two years after I gave up trying to convince the cardiologist I was referred to and *had to* see that I was, in fact, having concerning cardiac symptoms and did not have bipolar disorder; my endocrinologist referred me to a cardiologist through a different hospital system, and luckily enough this one actually ran tests instead of telling me I’m too young to have heart trouble and stop doing all those drugs I tested clean from. Turns out there’s evidence of a heart attack, lingering long qt and sv block, and two of my three valves are leaky. I just turned 30 and have to decide whether or not I can afford a pacemaker in between all the insulin for the genetic type 1 diabetes that I didn’t have a say in whether I developed it or not.
Just giving you a shout-out for what you have gone through. ❤
I cried reading that.
You need to focus on success, go for the win, work hard, stop wining .... etc etc, as the very rich tend to say. 😞Sorry for your situation. Perhaps move to a civilized country?
Imagine not supporting your citizens by allowing the poor and lower class individuals the Healthcare to work and earn capital for everyone, because of the greed of a very small profiteering CEOs
Insulin used to cost less before Obama care. And America most if not all medical research
@@smartass0124medical research is not on companies, its in publically funded university labs and surely obama raised the price of insulin and not a CEO
@@smartass0124but since you believe that, you should change your username to dumbass0124
And the politicians they buy.
Profiteering CEOs are shockingly short-sighted.
I was a home health nurse and travel nurse for decades, I have found countless cases of elderly patients who were prescribed the identical Blood Pressure Mediation, multiple times, by multiple physicians, who have not communicated with the other physician prescribers. In most cases, this could have led to the hospitalization or possible irreparable damage to the lives & health of the patients. I have even been scolded or asked to leave, due to the patient’s Defence of the obviously more educated physician that accidentally over medicated them. I have always reported these incidents to family and state. But in the end, it usually all gets swept under the rug.
This pretty much killed my grandmother. She was on so many medications, many for conditions she didn't have, and many that had guidance saying not to take them together. Then, she was being given medication for the symptoms caused by that!
"The decision to lower insulin has received heavy criticism"
From who? Only the people selling it would criticize 😅
I've look up cost insulin it's steady going up . Sense 2008 and more&more freedom health care plans
That's exactly who did
I'm impaired enough that I can't work a regular job, but not crippled enough to qualify for SSD. Clueless doctor kept asking my why I don't get health insurance. We live in GA, so no ACA Medicaid Expansion. I told her I could get a bronze plan with a $600 USD monthly premium and a $6000 USD deductible, but then I'd have to move under a bridge.
I get so frightened when I need to go to the doctor or hospital. It is more about $$$$ than it is about healthcare. No one should lose everything to get healthcare or meds.
Every single person who has had to endure the American Healthcare System should be included on a Victims of Capitalism Memorial.
And yet Venezuelans and Cubans are fleeing to the US.
But only if they died because of it.
Especially victims of Neoliberalism, the idea that everything, including public commons, should be run like a corporation, conflicts of interest be damned.
Last spring, I was poor but received no medicaid. My mom died from lack of health care.
Screw USA.
Do it.
I'm a molecular scientist specializing in human cytogenetics. I also do every type of molecular testing in the lab I work at and also help prep the cyto samples and monitor all patient samples to keep them as long as possible in case a test comes up last minute. At my last job I also did sample collection of just about every type that doesn't require a surgical procedure to obtain. Hematology, chemistry, toxicology, I did a LOT of different types of testing.
Lab personnel were already understaffed and underpaid before the pandemic, and now it's worse. We all have to cross-train and do the work of multiple people and now that's not just a go-getter attitude, it's expected. And some things you can't just slide into. One of my tests requires so much training and expertise that they just don't run that test if I go on vacation. They have to send the samples out to a reference lab because I'm the only one who can do it.
And insurance is a monster for lab workers. Just yesterday I caught an order for a test and recognized the patient's name. Looked them up and was pretty sure their insurance wouldn't cover the test after they'd had the same one done less than 2 months ago. I explained this to the lab manager and the pathologist so they could confirm with the doctor and patient before I do it. Because I don't want the patient to get slammed with a $1600 bill without knowing that's what will happen.
This is a cancer patient. My testing is to see if it's spreading to other organs. They should absolutely be having their situation monitored. And I hate that we all have to check the patient's insurance first so we can at least try to prevent them from being financially screwed over even more.
Well, you could move to Brazil where everything is free. But, you never do.
My insurance is absolutely awful. They deny most everything and I have to call and do resubmits constantly. Even with insurance it's a scam.
I trust insurance who I pay when I'm healthy but they pay mer when Im sick then I trust doctors who get paid to treat me while I'm sick . So would never really cure me .
Can't make obscene profits if you're paying money out for services. /s
Shout out to Dr. Glaucomflecken.
Learning that Lobbyists for Private Equity put a 'no Doctors allowed' clause into the Affordable Care Act....
That alone says everything you need to know about Health Care in America.
Yup. Can’t have those doctors screwing up the profits. We might put our patients first 😅
The Affordable Care Act had a single-payer option until Ben Nelson from Nebraska withheld his vote until it was removed from the bill. I have never been more ashamed to be a Nebraskan in my life, but our current crop of government is sure trying to top that.
That’s commonplace, imagine he came into a handsome sum of cash for that scummy move.
One of my very best friends worked her butt off to become an American citizen. Less than a week later, she was hit by an uninsured driver and life-flighted to the nearest hospital. She onky had liability, and she was found to be partially at fault due to some stupid technicality I don't remember. Once she was feeling better and had her pitch-black sense of humor back in place, I sent her a get well soon card that said "Welcome to America! Here, have a $50,000 medical bill!"
Only $50,000?
Only $50K that is something to be thankful for...@@InChristAlone305
As a Canadian, I can see that nearly everything in the US is a mess, most especially healthcare. I love your work Leeia! Please keep on informing us!
I'm one of Cathy's more than half a million constituents in WA-05, and the fact that she continues to be elected DESPITE all the big business cash she receives (especially big pharma) enrages me so much. I know WHY she keeps getting elected (she's a big name and she's got an R next to her name), but literally, she is one of the worst politicians we have in congress because she's extremely right wing but likes to act like she's a moderate and is the queen of cross talk. She wouldn't denounce Trump after the election fraud claims and she's notorious for dodging the local media at any chance (I'm a former journo that's made SO MANY interview requests). She really needs to be ousted because CLEARLY she only cares about what her corporate donors want, NOT her constituents.
Sad.
A case of Kochism if I've ever seen one. Is the 5th district anywhere near the Idaho border, by any chance?
@@dominicfucinari1942 It's literally the eastern-most chunk of Washington. So yes.
Insurance is actually a tax that most don't even know or think about.
The answer to this question is greed plain and simple. Nothing more, nothing less.
Please explain your greed.
You want something and you want someone else to pay for it.
@@JayBee-cr8jmPlease explain your selfishness. If you were convulsing on the side of the road, would you want a person of your mentality to walk by?
@@pamfan221 Explain why the government is better at spending my money than I am.
I don't have health insurance. I sent the IRS a check for $15,000 every April 15th.
You tell me how that works.
It seems that I am currently paying for a lot of you turds to have health insurance when I don't get any.
My mom really tried to convince me to move to the US where she is. I have severe chronic pain from two injuries and severe chronic migraines plus I'm dyslexic in a way that gives me a lot of trouble with forms. She's rich but that wouldn't apply to me I'd be stuck in the nightmare if I went there. Shudder. I have so much sympathy for people in the US with the current system.
Thanks for the video!
You nailed it with a big problem being them sectioning off the body instead of treating the body as a whole ..especially with them treating the mental health as seperate from the body health which makes no sense considering the brain runs everything.
From everything I've read, they don't even get taught about trauma in med school and it's affects on mental AND physical health. Trauma is when we enter fight or flight mode and stay in it because the brain doesn't get the signal that you're safe again so we get stuck on that mode with every stresser the brain picks up on being perceived as a threat it dumps more stress hormones into us and if not burned up fighting or fleeing they become toxic to us and lead to things like auto immune diseases, heart problems, diabetes, etc.. doctors can blame us all they want but the finger needs to be pointed right back as human's almost OCD need to categorize & section freaking everything has left a major blind spot in western medicine for research and diagnoses.
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wow... after living in South Korea for 5 years, meeting my fiance there, and now back in the US where my first job was receptionism/medical records for my local hospital cardiology clinic and seeing this disaster of a system face to face every day... I agree with everything in this video SO MUCH. especially seeing how South Korean healthcare worked... and worked SOOOO WELL compared to ours (there are a few things I could complain about there, but compared to the US healthcare system it is mere crumbs haha). Korean society can be brutal in its own way, and small town Midwest where I'm from has a lot of pros so we are going to try to make a family here... but my fiance and I both are in agreement that if either of us, or our future children, get some sort of bad health condition... we'll be going back to Korea to get treatment. I'll also always get full check ups and procedures there while visiting in laws and just pay COMPLETELY OUT OF POCKET due to it STILL being cheaper hahahahaha. it really is absolute shit what we live with in the US, and also so NEEDLESSLY COMPLICATED... Americans that haven't lived abroad really have no idea. basically... I've decided if I ever win the lottery I will be funding a huge protest in DC, where we'll all sit out in tents and not move until someone does something about our healthcare hahahahaha. anyone with me???
But what about the cost of a plane ticket as well as the amount of time that would be unpaid for this? Plus, the rise of the right around the world could perhaps exclude non-citizens of specific countries from these services.
@aycc-nbh7289 well... if I'm going over to visit in laws anyways I will be spending on a plane ticket regardless. Also, the second point, I'm not concerned at all lol... they'd love me helping their economy. the right in Korea loves Americans so much they wave the US flag at rallies haha. If anything sometimes the left party in South Korea is more xenophobic and pro China instead. Politics are very different in different countries/cultures... especially once u get out of the Western bubble of thought that I'm sure you are only thinking with.
@@vatefairefoutre0 It still means there’s a chance that foreigners may be denied care not too far down the line.
@aycc-nbh7289 lmao... do you understand that I'm marrying a Korean citizen and my children will be as well? I'm not just simply a completely detached foreigner or tourist. If push comes to shove I can get a visa and easily live there. Also, you have very little understanding of modern Korean politics and are brushing American style political thinking onto them. Korean politics are extremely complicated and interesting... and to give equivalence to them and compare to our political situation in the US is just wrong. I personally am fascinated by Korean politics and history... there's more to their country than kimchi and kpop lol I encourage you to read about it!
@@vatefairefoutre0 I don’t think either Korea allows for dual citizenship, though, so the government may still see you as just another foreigner.
As someone who plans on going to Med school this topic is close to my heart. I plan to be a family medicine, a DO to be more specific (they’re usually seen as the more holistic approach physician), this video hits the nail on the head. I’ve shadowed and talked to physicians who say insurance companies don’t let them be doctors. You essentially make more money by being a surgeon because most primary care / family medicine physicians have parts of their care that aren’t billable expenses. One doctor explained it to me this way, if a long time patient comes in and is experiencing life stressors. The physician may sit there spending time trying to help the person decrease the stress in their life to help their health outcome but then how do they bill it to get paid for it? Or a patient may need a certain screening done, the insurance company rejects it and says something else has to be done first. The physician now has to sit there and argue on your behalf, but they’re not actively being paid for the time they spend on he phone arguing for your ability to receive the treatment you need. Not to mention there are guidelines for physicians sometimes about how many minutes they should spend per patient. At one time I spoke with a family medicine physician who said she was told her target time with a patient was 15 minutes. She said she can barely address their concerns in 10. It gets even crazier when you start to add in hospital administration. It’s a sad, sad state we’re in.
Some doctors do not talk to their patients because they want them out the door to make more money. But I also have doctors who will spend hours with you! My cancer doctor and my TBI doctor I had a few years ago would spend hours with me. I think my brain injury doctor was trying to learn from my case. For months, I had zero, zero, zero memory. My brain is damaged in five places! Skull caved in! He said he would pay for me to travel to a brain doctors' organization and have me tell my story. I said I did not want to do that. I told him before, when my brain just started to get better, I wanted to die. But, I did not tell him that until after I got my driver's license back. In the UK, I would have been dead years ago! All those countries practice mercy killing. It is sad, sad, sad!
Speaking with a Doctor I used to have who was discussing moving his practice to Mexico and opening a shuttle service for patients....
As he explained it to me, Health Insurance for a Family Practice Physician is just as horrible for them as it is for us. He was telling me he had to stop taking certain providers and leave their network because he would lose money everytime he seen a patient.
1- Because as he put it, everything you fill out in a chart and send to the Insurance has to be phrased so carefully that you spend 45 minutes filling out the paperwork on each patient, otherwise if one little thing isn't phrased correctly the Insurer denies the bill.
2- Once you've gotten it past that point and sent it in you wait for the Insurer to inevitably send it back forcing you to negotiate the pricing on everything. This then goes into a merry go round where some $12 an hour, overworked employee is existing to argue prices with Physicians all day every day as the Insurance Co's know most Doctors will relent because they don't have the time to sit there for free all day arguing back and forth on a $200 Dr visit.
He seriously said "I would make more money if I moved my clinic across the border in Mexico, fully self pay and just charged each patient $100 for a visit."
What's sad is the patients would keep more money going that route.
Health Insurance is the biggest scam and Ponzi scheme I have ever seen in my life.
@@onewarriornation602 The doctors I have are living very well. Big two-story homes. If Mexico is so great, why are they dying to get here? Drowning in the river.
@@onewarriornation602 Yeap!! That’s essentially all I hear from family medicine physicians a well. Most try to discourage me from going that route all together because it’s so hard to effectively care for patients.
@@alwaysfreedom9354 Ahhh, one of those. I would attempt to explain it to you but I doubt you have the brain capacity to comprehend it.
My coworker was ready to go blind in one eye from a retina detachment because he didn't have the money for the surgery, nor for the time he would need to take off for recovery. He was able to pull it together thankfully and has his surgery scheduled, but the fact that this is the norm is disheartening and the fact that it's by design is infuriating. Hell isn't hot enough for the people making this happen.
Leeja, you also forgot another big issue. The stifling cost of higher education. The big emphasis on overspecialization also stems from the crippling debt that comes from college and med school, incentivizing doctors to specialize for the higher income potential in order to get that student loan debt paid off as fast as possible. The cost of higher education needs to be reined in as well, and the first step to that is abolishing tenure.
I don't think that is the issue here. The issue at hand is the blatant lobbying that is occurring from the various organisations representing the various interest groups and their agendas. The AMA, Pharma and Insurance companies, to name a few. Also, the blatant use of propaganda on the people by these organisations to subvert the truth, like how changing the system will destroy the US democracy and lead to worse outcomes for the masses which the populus eats up with delight. The numbers don't lie. US citizens are getting the ass end of the deal when it comes to healthcare but they don't seem to care even if they complain about it all the time. Even when something IS done, like in Obamacare and others, the population believe that they are getting a worse deal than the previous bureaucracy it replaces. Before you say that I don't know what I am talking about, I lived in the US for 12 years and while I wasn't a US citizen I had to abide by US state and federal rules as I was working and living there.
They pay "professors" way too much. They should be paid no more than a first-grade teacher. And they spend way too much on the buildings.
@Vesta_the_Lessertenure essentially makes the professional impossible to fire and they often refuse to retire and therefore stifles upward mobility for younger generations therefore with our ever longer life spans creates complete stagion
The two are caused by the exact same thing, government force.
When can we all collectively sue insurance companies for practicing medicine without a license? 😔
Watching this after Dr. G's 30 Days series is enlightening. Socialized health saves lives, makes for a more productive society because it is less sickly and increases GDP over the years and long term profits, but everything is so focused on short-term results...
EXACTLY! I wish people understood this better, and the impact better health would have on work, industry & the economy (to name a few). It would be a win-win. Now it's pretty much a lose/die-win.
I moved to Canada. The amount of stress I no longer feel is amazing. A real weight off my chest. Even paying out if pocket I paid way less than I would have in the USA. I paid 8k Canadian. my first year in Canada because I was so sick and from not getting healthcare in the USA. The doctors were amazed I was even alive. I will never go back to the USA and will fight for universal healthcare for everyone.
Nobody is entitled to things that must be provided by others.
Not just provided by others, but provide to others at the same time so very fair
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America does the vast majority of medical research.
Even funding in other countries comes from america.
Canada just suicide booths and under government health care who decides gets health care . Couldn't you manipulate voter base by deciding who lives and who dies.
Government health care is much closer to the definition of fascism
I really had to be born on the USA to understand the fierce opposition to universal healthcare and the rethoric "I don't want to pay for somebody else"
Greed and selfishness...both are a disease in themselves
Oh, the system works perfectly for what it was designed, it's just that it never was people's health.
Yup!!
This makes me even more glad we have the National Health Service here in the UK. I owe my life to it, several times over - underfunded and struggling as it currently is.
yes, its a shame that capitalistic lobbies in UK try to make NHS providing less and less service just to make privatisation more appealing by the public and try to destroy NHS as it is today. the goal is to establish privatisation like in USA. in countries like germany, where health insurance is mandatory, there is a lot money to make with least service. and treatment quality gets worse and worse. people should not fall for it, that privatisation could be good, bc i live and work in germany as a nurse and have close look on healthcare systems around the world and i can tell, the privatisation in germany is horrible to people. NHS is so much under pressure bc there is a political scheme to apply longer waiting list, with less service, they want to manipulate people to vote for privatisation, believeme its not going to end well. stand up and fight for better funding, the money is there, its not about the money lacking.
It’s time we look beyond capitalism
That's why health is so expensive. Look up cost of stuff like insulin going back years and decafesy
We're one of the richest generations of American, and world history. We just need to pay people to live. Their contribution helps.
To what system?
This is the path of most resistance. What is smarter is to argue that certain things aren't commodities so market models aren't appropriate to them. This is just true anyway, but it's also more feasible politically.
Then the USA can no longer be an OECD member.
money isn't the problem, it's that we allow money to be the problem. it's us that is the problem.
Recently, I was transported by ambulance eight miles from a Care Now to another hospital. No emergency, no lights, no sirens, just a short ride down the highway. $1500.
Here in Denmark Healthcare is pretty good. Hope you can copy our system.
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Unfortunately, people here think that any system that involves the government results in them having to pay for other people's poor health choices. They would literally rather pay for a CEO's yacht than give a poor person a single dollar.
@@SoramitsuOne potential problem is that we do have a high population (Aproximately 331 Million).
@@RainbowReaper1doesn't that just mean more people paying in to the system?
@karl_margs gosh i hope you end up in life ruining medical debt.
An elderly friend of mines did a good job hiding dementia then went to the US were it was exposed. His daughter said the biggest mistake she made was taking out the gold rated insurance as the hospital in the US held on to him for months as they ran his insurance down. He had to be flown back to the UK on a medi flight. The doctor in the UK said don't come back for 2 weeks as we will have to detoxify your dad of the oversubscribed drugs he was given.
In the UK a doctor will prescribe the drugs you need. In the US a doctor will prescribe the drugs they know they will be paid for.
Prescription wise in the UK Scotland is free England pays £10 or $13 for any drug prescribed. Diabetics along with long term condition get their medication free.
I can attest to the "not getting tested for important shit" problem. My aunt, my mother's sister DIED because of a RARE blood clotting mutation that runs in my mother's family. My mother has one of two factors, my aunt had both, and my uncle has both. Yet, when she looked to get myself and my older sibling tested (because we are not in contact with our bio father and trying to reach out even for important medical information is a NIGHTMARE), insurance would not cover it and it is insanely expensive to get it done without coverage. As such I have to avoid shit like hormonal birth control and other things because I have zero way of knowing how many factors I may or may not have. It's insane that such important medical information is withheld from me because I cannot afford it and the insurance company doesn't think it's important enough to cover.
@blobzilla69 i sadly don't know as i first found out about this over a decade ago. All i remember being told was that it was far too out of what we could afford and what was reasonable for such an important test that insurance decided wasn't important. I wanna say thousands but my memory of that time is choppy cuz we were also dealing with my aunt passing away at that time so there was a lot going on
I worked for a big insurance company... i can tell you it absolutely broke me and i quit after a year. Even working from home and a high pay could not keep anyone there unless you absolutely were able to close out your heart and ears... a man called sobbing because the hospital charged him for removing his wifes body a day after she died. Insurance would NOT cover it because her insurance shut off the day she died... i looked up her death it was literally a week after. This man was already broken and insurance made sure he couldnt get back up.
It’s broken because it’s profitable to those at the top, that’s why it will stay broken.
US healthcare is comprised of corporations, whose purpose is to make money for their investors and executives. They do it by offering health services and materials at the highest possible profit.
I got shot in the head a month ago. Ive been turned away from every ER in CNY.
This is probably my favorite video of yours. It’s just an onslaught of hits against our healthcare system, and it hits on every front
How? Medical mafia that abuses insurance.
I travel a lot and on my last trip back home I had an infection. From past experience I knew exactly what it was and abroad I'd go to an emergency room, get a prescription, fill it and even paying out of pocket spend a total of maybe $100.
So I went to the emergency room at an AdventHealth hospital and used my insurance. I ended up paying about $700 and my insurance over $2000. All for a trivial checkup and even simpler lab test they wanted to do in order to give me the prescription. Some of the charges were for people I never saw.
I told the insurance about this abuse, thinking it was fraud. But they said these were the agreed upon rates and that it was legal.
It is insane, a legalized scam ring.
Universal healthcare might work, but it will need to be designed properly and be *** for American citizens *** while non-citizen residents should be required to have private insurance.
Why?
- Because while some universal systems are a success (i.e.: Germany), others are a total failure (i.e.: Canada and UK).
- Limiting universal coverage to citizens will not only reduce costs and taxes, but it will provide motivation to learn our language, what is needed to integrate into our society, our laws and form of government, and become citizens. That should reduce problems with immigrants that failed to integrate, like protests in support of terrorist government or protests that turn violent.
I work in an office where we treat hepatitis C and I cannot tell you how often we have to argue with the insurance companies to get the medication for treatment. and I’m just like “do you want this person to go into liver failure? Do you wanna pay for a new liver??” like why am I begging you to treat this illness that will literally be cured in 8 to 12 weeks?!?
your stuff is always amazingly educational. thank you so much
The really crazy thing that the coverage graph shows (at 4:34), is the US not only has the lowest public healthcare enrollment rates, it also doesn't have great private health insurance enrollment rates. As a Canadian who has had some form of voluntary health insurance through my work or my parent's work its wild to me that we have a higher per capita enrollment in private healthcare than the US. My corporate insurance has changed when ever I have changed jobs, but I have gotten partial and/or full work coverage for things like elective cosmetic surgeries (not that I have ever taken advantage of that), masseuse, routine dental and eye care and dental and eye care surgeries covered in part and/or in whole depending on the discretionary I have roll over from year to year. I have had a few different private insurances in my time of job hopping but I didn't realize that the US is falling behind on the public and private coverage numbers...
*Edit* I forgot to mention that Canadian companies often also have drug plans that can provide drugs at little to no cost or will cut all drug costs by 50% on top of the fact that the Canadian government negotiate drug prices down to be more reasonable than the US as a baseline...
US Americans get really mad at countries like Canada for negotiating better drug prices, but the fact remains that they could do that too - they just choose not to, because all the politicians are bought and paid for by the drug companies.
I’m pretty sure that Canada, however, is unique in that it forbids private insurers from insuring care comparable to that which public insurers do.
@@aycc-nbh7289 That's the standard for most single payer systems, the Canadian sees many things as not critical to health outcomes so we have many insured under private insurance (usually through work insurance)
@@BlueScreenCorp Are you sure? I’m pretty sure that the UK and France both allow private insurers to provide similar services to their health agencies, so the “universal healthcare” system would be more or less a government health insurer that competes with the private insurers, much like how USPS competes with firms such as UPS and Amazon Prime.
@@aycc-nbh7289 the UK and France both only allow supplemental insurance and do not allow private insurance to dictate or cover items that fall under the single payer systems. Germany is an example where public and private can compete, the German system works almost identically to the US model where every citizen has health insurance but they have to choose if they want to pay for public or private insurance. In cases like Germany and Sweden most people choose (90-96%) choose the public option as it's simply better for the vast majority of citizens and no insurer can provide things like priority access.
If you have a single payer system, then all bills to the single payer, otherwise it's not a single payer system.
Putting lawyers, accountants, bureocrats, and insurance adjusters in charge of our health care system was probably a bad idea. Maybe put doctors and patients back in control? Crazy idea...it would never work.
Simple answer: never learned to value human life and well being above money. Need to read the UDHR.
You claim be for bodily automyyer deny health care to those don't want to take Trump Funded Experimental RNA injections
Showing the effect government health care . They decide who lives and who dies.
They affect vote bases to that way.
That's the litteral dictionary definition of fascism
This is embarrassing as a country. Greed and love of money will be Americas downfall.
It's pretty bad in this country.
@@sarahrobertson634 pretty bad is an understatement.
This healthcare system truly makes me sick my father was a veteran of the navy and just last year the va hospital refused to treat him because he supposedly had to much money, I feel that if your a veteran you should get free medical care. What truly makes it worse is that I’m disabled and have Medicare yet even though my father was my care taker they wouldn’t let my insurance cover him, and sadly he passed away two days ago.
VA has limited responsibilities and funding. It is there mainly for those hurt in service to their country or too poor to go elsewhere.
There’s another factor that I believe isn’t usually addressed in most healthcare discussions. It’s the lack of quality healthcare in rural areas. Urban areas have food deserts, rural areas have healthcare deserts.
Urban areas don't have food deserts, that's also rural areas
Urban areas are dense enough to support grocery stores, some rural ones are not
Both the pharma industry, which is doing research based on research funded by the NIH / the public, and the scientific publications industry, where people have to pay journals to access research funded by the NIH / the public, are baffling industries to me.
This was so informative yet succinct. Amazing job- every person in healthcare needs to watch this!!!
While I understand the point of comparing with Europe and “wealthy countries” I think it’s important to add and also compare to other category of countries specially because universal healthcare is in many countries that regulate medication prices, surgeries and more and maybe they’re not the stars of economy but the general standard of living it’s good and provides happiness in many cases.
Specially because this shows that rather than being “wealthy” having universal healthcare is basic human decency and possible in many situations.
Great video btw! Love your content/
America most medical research and even more funding around the world
we have alot of crap in this country that pisses me off but Healthcare is what radicalized me when i turned 18 and its been my number one issue for 2 decades since.
My girlfriends friend went to US and got into a car accident and the first thing they asked him in the hospital is about insurance, that is something that doesnt happen here. Even if it did the money would be sorted after, but the doctors would still help the guy. He lived but hes still paying back to the US
I've been binging some of your content for the past couple days, and I love it, truly. I do have one request however, that would lend a lot more credibility to certain claims. Namely: Better on screen citing of sources for the charts used to represent results of studies, as well as better detail on some of the parameters of said charts. For example: the bar graph used at 4:12 does not explain what range of time the data represents, nor is it clear who provided this chart as the results of their study. Not having this information makes it difficult for myself as a viewer to fact check these claims and back them up in my own arguments to help further the spread of these discussions. I hope this hasn't come off as overly-critical or patronizing, and I look forward to more of your content regardless of this issue. Thanks for all you do!
I love these videos and I'm a foreigner..if you're a patrion member you get to see all of her notes and research material.. I signed up it's brill
Thanks for mentioning the burden ER's take on. As an ER doc, I would gladly take a pay cut if I wasn't up to my ears in student loan debt and if me and my patients all had universal healthcare. It is so incredibly frustrating to have patients come back time and time again because of the holes in our social safety net (and I am in California where it comparatively isn't that bad). Literally had someone come back with recurrance of a very dangerous type of infection because the insurance company wouldn't approve an antibiotic which he was being given in the hospital and is commonly used to treat this infection. Told the patient if it were me I would go to the media and possibly sue since they had jeopardized their health.
Good video. I will say in one critique that the emphasis on Doctors being too over specialized in america is a misled one. The problem that most people don’t realize is that primary care is unattractive to most people for a plethora of reasons that don’t have to do with the compensation. Primary care doctors compensation model requires them to see a lot of patients (which to a burned out medical student is not very attractive). In addition, primary doctors have to deal with the externalities of medicine more than any other doctor without actually tools to address these externalities. For example, when it comes to preventative care one might think about nutrition. When handling a patient from low income and trying to prevent them from developing vascular disease, it’s very difficult to help this patient to eat right especially when you have very little time with them AND have to contend with the fact that they don’t have the resources or access to proper nutrition. Another thing that I’ll mention that especially makes people not want to do primary care is student debt. A primary care physician compensation isn’t bad by any means. The problem is student debt is so bloated that as a student your best chance for paying these loans off in a timely manner is not primary care. The last thing I’ll mention that dissuades people from primary care is that in primary care you’re usually not doing primary care. That is, because of Americans relationship with healthcare, most of the time your patients are only coming in when they’re really sick. As a primary care doctor you often have to juggle needing to send this very sick patient to a specialty that can handle the level of problem they’re at, but not wanting to send a patient to specialty treatment that they can’t pay. All these things contribute to burning out fast as a primary care physician which makes it a not an enticing field except for the most dedicated to that patient population
Us true Americans criticize this stuff because we actually like America and want it to be better. Conservatives just tell us to leave. Sick of that crap.
Healthcare is the number one problem facing America right now - not racism, violence, income inequality, etc. Nothing else has the same power to bankrupt the average person or make people work jobs they hate simply to get the health benefits.
Anyone who advocates for universal healthcare has to be able to answer these questions:
1) Can you explain why Norway's single payer system costs 2.5 times per capita PPP of South Korea's single payer system? It can't be the presence or absence of single payer, which means by definition non trivial factors other than single payer are the reason, and without accounting for those factors, you can't claim what the impact of single payer is on the cost of providing healthcare
2) Can you explain how Singapore(a wealthy country that is not part of the OECD so is often overlooked) is more privately funded than the US, but costs less per capita and as a percent of GDP than most if not all universal healthcare systems, being on par with South Korea?
3) Can you explain how when you look at per capita healthcare spending relative to the percent of healthcare spending that is public in the OECD, there is no correlation?
4) Can you explain why US healthcare spending didn't decouple from inflation until after 1965, when Medicare and Medicaid were introduced(and their reimbursement schedules are less than cost of the provider, forcing them to raise prices elsewhere)?
If you can't answer these questions, you don't actually have a good reason why universal healthcare is more efficient or effective.
The US healthcare system is broken, but what evidence-not just accommodating data-supports the idea that it's broken for lack of universality?
Healthcare, for some politicians it’s a entitlement!
As a healthcare provider (Nurse Practitioner), I can testify all this information is very accurate. I would have to say something though… in our country, we DO have to practice defensive medicine because the public also feels entitled and is demanding compared to other countries.
However, we have terrible preventive medicine and have the most unhealthy lifestyles in relation to diet and exercise… not to count stress.
Me: waiting for "Ronald-fuckin-Reagan"
Also me: a little bit disappointed
The “healthcare system” in the U.S. may more appropriately be called the “sickness maintenance business”
Health Insurance is a self-licking ice cream cone that we have to pay for.
The fact that money grubbing insurance companies, who aren’t healthcare professionals, have final say over whether you can get treatment over a DOCTOR ARGUING ON YOUR BEHALF is so dystopian.
Actually, you are misinformed. Insurance companies do have doctors, nurses, certified coders, and clinical specialists of all kinds working for them. Many have worked in hospitals and private practice.
@@kevinreynolds7125that’s what they WANT you to think. I’d love to see some proof of all the “many”, “qualified” healthcare professionals like doctors and nurses, who work for insurance company and can ACTUALLY make informed and halfway decent decisions for patient care in hospitals and doctors offices. Because news flash, majority of insurance companies are NOT taking the time to find and hire qualified people to accept or deny care procedures, no they are hiring anyone who’s willing to be paid minimum wage to skim files as documents with specific words to look out for to deny care so they aren’t letting anyone take a PENNY more than they absolutely “need” for whatever care they need. If you genuinely believe that insurance companies have a majority of qualified healthcare professionals making these decisions to deny or not deny care and coverage, then you need to wake up or get your head checked LMAO.
A note on statistics... When you're talking about something with a really skewed distribution (eg. OECD per capital healthcare spending where the US is a huge outlier), it is generally better to look at the median value as 'typical' instead of the average
I found out that I have the BRCA gene which causes breast cancer. Right now my lifetime risk it pretty much 50/50. My insurance consideres a preventative mastectomy and elective surgery and would rather just spend thousands of dollars on me down the line if I eventually get breast cancer.
'Merica is literally a kakistocracy. We are going in the shitter and we refuse to stop it we just keep racing to the bottom.
I will never stop preaching about how shitty the US healthcare system is. I went to the ER with numbness in all of my limbs, vertigo, and I was extremely sick from medicine I didn’t need from a doctor that didn’t know what the fuck he was doing. The ER doctors heard “stomach pain” and just did a CT scan on my tummy and said I had colitis. Asked about why I was numb and dizzy, the gastrointestinal specialist came in and said “that’s just anxiety.” Turned out…. My immune system was eating my brain :D I have multiple sclerosis and I was having a horrible episode. If my primary care doctor hadn’t rushed an MRI becauseI had “abnormal Bell’s palsy” (got that from all the medicine I literally didn’t need at all) … I would probably be in a wheel chair today.
At this point you guys are literally living in the worlds richest third world country.
I hate it here!!!
@@LeejaMiller They are lucky they have you and people like you there to speak out about things that are not right. But somehow I have a feeling the vast majority are just saying "If you don't like it here then move" instead of doing something to fix the enormous problems you have overthere. I thank Odin everyday that I'm born in Norway and not in the US.
I truly LOVE your videos. They are enlightening and educational in ways that I haven't been exposed to by typical news outlets. Very appreciated; thank you.
health care isn't broken it's designed to work like that, stop saying it's broken.
And this isn't what Adam Smith would call capitalism.
It's also antithetical to America's successes and golden eras, which were always brought on by SOCIALIST policy/conditions.
the founding fathers approved of doing things that are immoral at the expense of the weak and vulnerable, that is part of the design of authority and law, if all you are concerned with is that is that the united states government is not being evil the way it's designers had intended, i don't want to hear what you have to say.@@Pistolita221
US Inc. 💵
The United States' stubbornness is astounding
It is possible if you want to: Public Universal Healthcare. It is not socialism. It is common sense.
"We have the best government money can buy." Mark Twain
An old friend just passed from cancer. He was a scientist, turned physical therapist.
He got fired from his first job because he was spending too much time with patients. He also repaired patient's wheelchairs and assistance equipment during visits.
He eventually found an employrer who appreciated his attention to details.
I am remarakbly healthy because of a dietary change. I learned about this diet right here on UA-cam.
The channels i watch to learn about this diet, where I eat delicious, whole foods, is healing people, getting them past ailments previously acquired from eating from the USDA food pyramid.
I am one. I ate mostly vegetarian, vegan, some meat, and acquired diabetic damage. I have vegan friends, most are overweight, who are also on statin drugs... I am lean, fit, and healing from the damage I aquired.
My point is that UA-cam is censoring, making it harder to find, these channels who promote this diet. YT apparently wants to discourage non-standard medical system methods to achieve better health.
The diet I eat goes against the USDA food pyramid. The USDA says this diet should clog my arties, raise my blood pressure, make me fat, have a heart attack and am a stroke risk.
My recent blood numbers were deemed "optimal" by my doctor. My blood pressure is normal, I dfopped 40 lbs, and I can tell my hormones have returned to levels I experienced as a young man. I'm 73, vigorous, horny again, and looking to live well beyond the average age.
Every pharma drug I've been given in the past year went into the trash, because the side effects were unacceptable, intolerable in some cases... I now take no pharma drugs. Sorry, not sorry, big pharma.
The hospital killed my mom by putting in an un needed pacemaker. It’s horrible and they will all burn eventually!
How many times has a politician said "This new law, regulation, mandate, etc., etc. will make health care more affordable"? Government is the problem.
One important block for getting socialised healthcare in the US is worth mentioning: healthcare professionals pay.
You have a system built around doctors and nurses being paid twice as much as in countries with socialised healthcare. That means that for the US to adopt such a system, you’re going to have to get doctors and nurses to accept a significant pay cut.
Since you have at least some people going into the profession for profit, and you have an education system that puts people hundreds of thousands in debt to become a doctor, it means that you will face SIGNIFICANT pushback on this. Even if you forgive all debt, a lot of the profession will offer significant pushback.
You’re comparing to countries where it’s often cheap or free to become a doctor or nurse.
So you’re likely going to need a culture change, and a sweeping education reform… before you can even get to a proper healthcare reform :(
The U.S. healthcare system works great for rich people; you know, the ones who own this country, and tell the government what to do. That's why it sucks for the rest of us. Same reason poor people are in chronic pain; we have a war on pain medicine, so only rich people get pain relief. You know, 'because they are smarter than the rest of us, so THEY won't get addicted', so they get pain relief. The rest of us are screwed.
I live in Spain. This is my experience.
In order to be self-employed I had to pay 300€ (very roughly $330) every month for state insurance. That is, there are four private firms with the same policy which I believe is written by the government. I didn't earn much and I really moaned about those 300€, but visits to my medico de cabcera, roughly a family doctor, were free. Physio to recover from a broken shoulder was free. Routine healthcare for my kid was free.
Then I had a muscle contraction in my thigh which got better and worse and better and worse. By the time I went to the doctor and got it scanned, the sarcoma was 15 cm (6") long. Roughly the size of a mango. No wonder it hurt.
They were pretty quick. I live on a small island and getting to the university hospital meant a plane or ferry ride, and the country was in the middle of a COVID surge. I had a bunch of diagnostic tests and in a little over a month we knew that the cancer hadn't spread, what sub-type of sarcoma it was, and pretty much everything they wanted to know. The insurance paid for the flights or ferry for me and a companion, and minimum wage sick pay.
That insurance I moaned about paid for radiotherapy, and cheapo living expenses to live near the hospital for 5 weeks for two of us. Then major surgery, and more living costs for the weeks before I could travel home. It paid chemotherapy and then a for a mid-range prosthetic leg (about 15,000€ at European prices.) It's paying for physiotherapy to teach me how to walk with that leg. It pays for follow-up scans and doctor appointments. It's about to pay a small disability pension.
We had to do paperwork to get the living expenses, but almost no paperwork for the medical stuff. My family doctor had to phone every three weeks to ask if I was still sick, she'd produce a piece of paper which I'd scan and email to the insurance people, and that was it.
300€ a month turned out to be a bargain.
as one big pharma lobbyist said: it's not cost but ability to pay ~ global roll-out of u.s. developed treatments are subsidized by american citizens paying vastly higher medical costs
This is not only about the healthcare system. Women are less likely to die during childbirth in Tajikistan or Uzbekistan, not because the health care system is better there (I belong to one of those Central Asian ethnic groups, and I moved to the US 11 years ago), but because our women are less likely to be obese, have hypertension, or have other health issues that increase the risks of complications. Actually, I had never seen that many obese people before moving to the US. That extra weight shortens your life by a lot too. We grew poor, but it meant that we all worked a lot and had to grow our veggies and fruits (kids help since the age of 6-7, parents worked day jobs and then worked in the garden during the evenings and weekends, and our stores were not full of cheap junk food, our stories have very limited assortment matrix, and we went there for things like shampoos). It is not easy to take care of sheep, but we had to. My mom made woolen clothes for winter from sheep's fur. And then we would exchange stuff with neighbors. Someone has milk, someone has eggs, someone can offer something else for exchange. My mom would sleep very little, as she would also need to cook, until I turned 9 or 10, and then it was my responsibility to cook for the family before my parents returned from work. Not much playing and having fun. That also meant that we had to mature earlier than American kids, as our lives were way harder. We've been budgeting and planning our expenses since we were kids. It is a different culture, different lifestyle, different eating habits too that make health and life expectancy different in other countries.
Where have you been all my life Leeja.❤ I just discovered you on UA-cam and your reporting is awesome.
Healthcare in American is dangerous to the point of life threatening for users. What can you expect from a system designed to maximize profit? As a frequent user the last 24 years, necessary because of my wife's chronic illness (caused by a neglectful system's failure to diagnose her condition) my best advice: .... DON'T GET SICK!
What about drug shortage that's on all time high? Just because making cheap generics in the US is not as profitable as obscenely expensive "innovative" molecular redressings of the same old generics.
I'm getting unlimited treatment for a rare desease to improve my quality of live. A lot is done to prevent my situation getting worse. Medication prices are regulated and insurance companies provide basic insurance (110 Euro per month) and offer plus packages on top (prices differ). Kids to the age of 18 don't pay for health insurance but profit from the parent's insurance package that is best. I love how it's being done in The Netherlands. I wish you would get that great system as well. You deserve it. Stand up to insurance companies, pharma but most of all ... Politicians who are unwilling to come up with better legislation!
Thank goodness someone else understands this the way I have for many years now. I'm so done with "medical care" you can stick a fork in me!
Thanks for another gem of an episode, Leeja ... your content, editing, delivering is always so sharp, professional, thorough, fair and balanced ... sharing to my timeline with another intro praising your critical thinking.
Curious if you've seen any interviews with Marianne Williamson?
I'm fortunate to have 100% coverage, no deductible, with Partnership Medical ... so far I haven't been denied anything I needed ...
In 2014 (?) I was air vacced in the "Reach" helicopter from Memorial hospital in Santa Rosa to Washington hospital in Freemont, to see a specialist.
I went to Memorial because I had a weird headache and nausea ... it wasn't like anything I'd ever felt before ... I thought maybe I was having a stroke ... the MRI showed blood on the brain ... they thought it might be an aneurysm ... turned out to be just your average, ordinary, run of the mill subarachnoid (sp?) hemorrhage 🤗 the brain would eventually absorb the blood, I didn't need surgery ...
So, the fun part of the story - how much do you think the helicopter ride cost? It's approximately 170 miles, round trip ... easily less than 2 hours by helicopter ...
$47,587 😲
I got bills from maybe 40 providers 🤯 ... the hospital, the doctors, the lab, Reach, ... and so many others ... many were from places, people, that I'd swear I didn't even use their service ...
The entire price tag on my event was almost half a million !! No $#*t !!
Got lot's of great material for comedy from it 💗
Like when this woman from Reach called to ask me about paying the bill ...
How much is it?
$47,587
😹😹😹 Well, I'm not paying it 😹😹😹
I gave her my insurance info ...