I am 60. My doctors, of over 10-20 years have all quit. They all told me they quit because they are not allowed to practice medicine the way they want to. It is all about the insurance companies and the billable hours. This is awful. We need a change.
Why is it that ppl who live in socialistic healthcare countries are all so much happier and live longer than us? Because those countries like Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, etc...treat their citizens with equal respect and simple humanity, instead of ONLY respecting the rich, like US does. It's the greedy rich who now own politicians to buy laws allowing only the rich to benefit. 5 rightwing judges on SCOTUS in 2010, a case called Citizens United said, "Money is speech." So now private equity firms/banks own health insurance companies. Lots more $$$$ to be grifted by taking over Medicare & turning it into a for-profit market. 45 allowed that to happen when he was at the helm! Now, older & disabled Americans have to pay rising Medicare premiums, not to mention, if they sign up with "Medicare Advantage" plans, they could get the notorious "denial letters" all for-profit ins companies send out whenever they just don't want to pay claims. Plus higher co-pays, deductibles, premiums--just like any other private, for-profit insurance company does. There goes the slow destruction of our precious Medicare system!!! And with the ACA, still 10s of millions of Americans are left uninsured. 500,000 Americans every year still having to file medical bankruptcies, too. And our life expectancy is getting shorter. Greedy rich. This is the world they wanted.
Yes, it’s all about insurance companies but it’s also about pharmaceutical companies, making huge profits by only giving dollars to research to treat symptoms rather than research to cure or prevent. What a sick system we have!
Not true. They beg for care and their government offers assisted suicide. You see, government doesn't create anything so it has to manage dwindling resources like Canada and the UK are doing. Biden wants to get us where they are, even worse. He wants to give our resources to 3rd world countries in the name of esg.
This is why, We need Universal Healthcare & to RID Ourselves of profit-driven, Insurance Corporations, but We will need to have courageous Leaders & Politicians, to help Us, to make that happen & We will have to be srong-willed & driven in this pursuit. We have to remove the financial barriers ( full stop). ------Psalms 23
Y G: Exactly. My stepfather was a doctor, saw this HMO model coming decades ago. He said that if it did, bureaucrats, instead of doctors, will be making health care decisions. Boy was he right.
This started back in 1985 when the diagnostic grouping were established by the insurance companies who could over rule a doctor’s opinion about care. The insurance companies incentivized the hospitals to provide less care.
It's not just the insurance companies. "Standard of Care" makes doctors conform to treating symptoms in 15 minute increments rather than root causes of illness. It makes them into drug pushers for Big Pharma and companies that sell expensive medical devices that focus on the downstream effects of poor nutrition, stress and toxic environments.
Agreed! And politicians making decisions about healthcare instead of doctors with their patients also must lead to doctors feeling like all their training and experience is worthless. It's not good for Americans that so many ethically-oriented doctors have left and are leaving the profession. Who will care for us?? 😞
Corporate Greed is 100% the root of the problem. I’m a nurse who’s worked in the acute care hospital in my city for 17 years. It has only gotten worse. Thank God more doctors are coming forward.
Corporate Greed? Okay; “agreed,” but greed and profiteering are at the roots of most of our problems... the whole world over... People love “making” money way too much at the expense of most everything else.
I agree with the heart of your message. But I CHALLENGE ALL OF US to take a step back and realize the answer is NO! 40% of the problem is Corporate America, 40% of the problem are the politicians and lack of accountability and transparency (politicians have to take the lobbyist money in order for the gambits of Corporate America to succeed), and 20% is the silence and tacit permission by the individual healthcare providers THEMSELVES inherent in silent complacency.
@@ocsugar Wealthy people have a right to buy their daughter a new Corvette ZR1 for her sweet 16th birthday 🎈🎂. If they cause little people to suffer to extract wealth from the little people to do that then isn't it worth it? A wealthy person's child happiness is worth more than the lives of one million little people.
After 32 years as a surgeon I am happily retiring in 4 months. I spend far more time on the computer than with the patient. Insurance companies increasingly control care: deny defer and delay, often dishonestly and unethically, counting on the docs being to busy to appeal. It’s entirely about money. Depressing. We need a single payer system.
thank you for your statement. As a patient since I was three with no platelets, I used to be admired by doctors in that somehow I lived. I have all sorts of tricks to stay healthy both mentally and physically. Recently the doctors just deny I am in pain. Amedia stinal thyroid tumor doesnt hurt if you don't have one. And my doctorwanted me to take toradol. They told me Toradol doesnt cause gut aches and doesnt come in pill form, it was toradol or pain, I have accepted Toradol before, never again. I took pain and I'm moving to Mexico.
So very sorry, I hope you are able to somehow find the help you need. The system is very broken, and I too have been through such a nightmare with this system for over 30 yrs., I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of having to deal with more of this.
We've needed it for decades. But at this point, I can only conclude that need does not, nor ever will, lead to change. Too many people are making fistfuls of cash, and the voting populous doesn't have the frontal lobes to vote for change. I've seen more than one gofundme for medical care from people that consistently vote GOP.
Our 22 year old daughter was told she would die because our insurance would not pay for her orphan disease cancer surgery because it was too rare and untested treatment. Instead the insurance company did approve---now she has been in remission for 15 years. Without this surgery she would have been dead. When we were waiting we asked if we could sell our house and pay---we were told no, that would take too long. Need the money now---OMG the system is so broken.
It is evil! And even more heartbreaking? Some version of this story happens multiple times a day. Often without the happy ending. Our "for profit" system needs not to be reformed, but completely abolished and rekindled from scratch.
It is not broken. It is working exactly the way it was designed to work: minimize care to maximize PROFIT. That's why our healthcare system is garbage.
My son became a doctor in 2019 he graduated from a very good medical school and then tested out at the top of his residency class. The hospital system he was working for offered him a generous 3 year contract. He loved his work at first, but he began to think about leaving this system. He was seeing more and more interference from non medical administrators telling him how to practice in his practice. He is experiencing doubts about his profession and considering another path. From the time he was a young boy he always wanted to be a doctor It's maddening to see the for profit side of medicine dictating the practice of medicine. I am sad to see him going through this, such a waste of talent and compassion.
@@jellybellyfun3288 many just ignore the nature of this ginormous trap that is Rockefeller corporate medicine and plunge right ahead even after being warned, thinking that they are somehow going to be the ones to change the nature of this beast.....or that the juggernaut is going to step aside to accommodate whatever sensibilities they have left after completing Med School, an internship and a residency...
@ no. Government was supposed to limit the power of oligarchs not be bought out by them. You’re an idiot if you think an oligarch and oligarch cronies will help hoi polloi like yourself.
Right! Why the hell is there such a thing as a doctors order? If my doctor evaluates me and based on his expertise he decides that I am in need of therapy or device or medication... so he writes a doctors order for it. How is it legal for someone that isn't a doctor to ursurp my doctors authority? How is it legal for any non medically licensed staff to make decisions for my health? That is more powerful than my own doctors? How is it a non medically licensed professional can usurp and override my own doctors orders, make decisions on my health, and HASN'T EVEN EVER SEEN OR HEARD ME MUCH LESS EVALUATED ME IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM? .... BUT MY OWN MEDICALLY LICENSED DOCTOR CAN'T DECIDE ANYTHING FOR ME NOR PRESCRIBE OR WRITE ANY ORDERS *_WITHOUT SEEING ME FIRST?!_* WHAT THE HELL IS THE DOCTOR FOR?! NON MEDICALLY LICENSED PERSONNEL TOOK THE LIBERTY OF DISREGARDING *ORDERS* SUBMITTED BY A MEDICALLY LICENSED PROFESSIONAL - WITHOUT ANY NOTICE, WITHOUT ANY DISCLOSURE, WITHOUT ANY PERMISSION OR CONSENT, DECISIONS FOR MY DAUGHTERS HEALTH AND LIFE WERE MADE BY NON MEDICALLY LICENSED PERSONNEL IN OPPOSITION TO THE DOCTORS ORDERS MY DAUGHTERS NEUROLOGIST SUBMITTED!! It's not just blatant _fraud_ amongst others... it's also the whole reason for the new classification of --- ... 🙊... ... _(enter "not worth it" language and point here)_ ........ #Wetiko
...and these guys with the business degrees running these hospitals are collectively on code, in making sure that physicians do not advance into C-suite positions of power. There is alot of animosity among these groups. They require physicians to obtain MBA's to get into executive positions.
thanks Dr Reinhart for bringing this fundamental FLAW in US HEALTHCARE to everyone's attention. As with other corruption in America, US Healthcare corporations only care for it's profits, patients be damned.
More than that! In the US at least add a year of internship rotations and 3 or more years Residency like my son-- just did so the WHO (UN) run by a non-expert bureaucrat could order him around!
I’m a primary care physician. It is just horrible practicing traditional primary care. The horrific destruction I see every day in our healthcare by these greedy systems are mind blowing. You cannot prescribe even a generic medication for your patient without a prior authorization. You can’t order a test without a prior authorization. Coupled with patients who go to the ER only to be sent home with Follow up with your primary care. You are so emotionally drained because of regulatory demands and also fear of always being sued. Frivolous lawsuits driven by lawyers. You are almost forced into employment because you can’t pay the bills of the clinic. EMRs that were supposed to help us, send us into countless hours way beyond your office hours, spent to complete charts. The medical record is now weaponized by every one. Family relationships are affected because you are so drained. Through it all I still wake up and return because I love what I went into medicine to do, take care of patients. Something has to change and fast!
I think physicians & patient need to unite & form an organization to confront the issues both politically & within the system. We need some inspiring people to organize a multifaceted approach to confront &
I left mainstream medicine after nearly 30 years of practice. A major hospital system bought our breast cancer clinic (I voted against the sale, but 8 of my partners voted to sell). Overnight it became a corporate practice with an emphasis on money. My nurse of over 10 years was forced out, because she was at the high end of the pay scale, and had to be replaced by TWO nurses. (She was that talented). I was treated horribly even though I was a founding member of the practice and knew what to do to deliver stellar care. I left after 2 years and reinvented myself as a health coach. I now help people achieve a healthy weight, eliminate medications and reverse diseases such as diabetes and hypertension with proper diet and lifestyle. I am making a huge impact without expensive prescription drugs or crazy recommendations such as bariatric surgery. I'm saving lives and reducing people's healthcare costs!
Is what you are doing now be considered Value-based Care? Value-based care is centered around the idea of improving healthcare quality for patients and preventing problems before they start. This focus on prevention lowers the need for expensive medical tests, ineffective medications and unnecessary procedures.
I am American but have lived overseas for many years. As I watch trends in America, it seems very clear that the USA is drowning in costs, and ultimately greed. And it's not just the medical profession. Housing, politics, the unjustified costs of groceries, gasoline. It is destroying the middle class and has created a "haves and have-nots" culture. It's becoming easier to see why America is on the decline.
We are run by an “elite “ society. Every politician is in the upper wage category after a couple of years in office. All the laws regulations etc are made to benefit them and those in same category. It’s almost impossible for someone without a law degree or wealth to run for office we are generally screwed
I signed up to be a servant of the people, not of corporations. I was hospitalized with what has turned out to be stress-related illness and quit after 4 decades. I have not felt better in 20 years. The job is killing us because of the conflicting emotions.
As a physician who left the field two decades ago out of dissatisfaction with an earlier stage of the destructive revisioning of American healthcare as an industry, please take Dr. Reinhart seriously. We once bragged (falsely for disadvantaged communities) of having the best healthcare system in the world. Now the results of the business transformation are so obvious that not even its defenders have the nerve to pretend anymore. But raise a glass to the financial health of the captains of the industry. They're feeling fine.
@@wordswordswords8203 A lot of us have just given up even seeking "medical care" we get 0% benefit and a burdensome bill if we do so. (not to mention wasted time and psychological stress)
@The T.I. Experience exactly and so many dumb Obama voters never GOT that was beyond me. Plus Doctors never stood up against BObama using white jacket-clad nonphysicians for that Rose Garden stunt.
When the "leadership" is bought and paid for by the health insurance companies, the leadership IS the insurance companies. The foxes are in charge of the henhouse. No need to "listen". They've created today's healthcare system and have no incentive to change it. ALL of healthcare should not be a business, where the profit motive is the only incentive and deciding factor.
Leadership already knows. They are the ones invested in the insurance companies. Things will not change until all US citizens stand up and demand that their representatives start actually representing the citizens instead of themselves when legislating.
@@jadeh2699 I tend to agree with all of that. This time, though, I wonder if headlines of plummeting life expectancy will put a fine enough point on the issue to prompt them to act. It's kinda hard to imagine a more radioactive ballot issue than dying sooner, but then again, we regularly vote against our best interests...
Way to nail it, sir! Who to blame? Profiteering insurance companies AND the politicians they lobby and pay off are disgusting and should carry the blame.
We need freedom from the insurance companies, we need menu-style pricing, we need to overthrow the doctor's union that is artificially restricting the number of doctors, we need to stop the influence of big pharma on pill pushing doctors, etc. I drew up a business plan with my step brother to run a store that offers X-ray and MRI services. No diagnoses, just the scans, that they can take to their doctors. We found we could be profitable in a year, and making money like crazy after that, charging only $20/x-ray, and $40/MRI. But it is illegal for us to operate separate from a hospital. That's anti-capitalist behavior that is Preventing affordable competition to the market, driving up prices. True medicine is affordable out of pocket, if we overthrew the anti-capitalist pro-monopoly forces at play.
@@marycontrary6216: the cost of band aid has gone up because it has been moved into an upper tier. Patients are being gouged by the basics being shifted into a more expensive tier.
How about making these politicians pay out of pocket for the SAME care that we receive? Don't forget, the US taxpayers fund their healthcare - and it's 24K gold standard care too!
Didn't we find that out during the pandemic?? Keeping people from getting needed surgeries, meds,just seeing the doctor for checkup. I am a diabetic and I couldn't get Medformin because I couldn't see a doctor to get the script for over 18 months. Thank God I was able to get a substute. I will get to see an Herbalist before I see a doctor nowadays.
I practiced medicine for almost 30 years. I remember the first lecture in medical school where we were told the most important rule was that anything we do we always do for the patient. I graduated at the top of my class and did a fifth year to learn how to evaluate medical studies and data. I spent my entire career in rural Healthcare because that was where care was needed the most. I saw private equity infiltrate medicine turning it into an industry that guts quality and safety of care placing profit as the only goal. I was outspoken about this when it hit our community since I wads one of the few independent physicians remaing. I was crushed and my career was ended because of this. The public would be appalled if they understood how much of medicine is geared toward expensive and ineffective treatments and how they are viewed as only modules of profit.
I’m an RN and was fired just before covid for speaking up about corruption in healthcare! I didn’t use the word corruption in my speaking out, I use it now as a general term for the many unethical, immoral, deceitful actions within healthcare. I keep my license up to date but have not returned to healthcare, Im not sure I want to be a part of such a system :(
Yes. Under capitalism EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE is viewed as an equation on a balance sheet aimed at profit. No system in this country can operate outside of this fact. Human widgets.
As a former med student whose class lost 25% of its students (myself included) we just can’t do it anymore after covid bc of how our population reacted and then we go back to this screwed up system. I’m glad someone is talking about this. Maybe one day we can come back to medicine and put our passion to work for others once more.
I am sorry to see once passionate- about-medicine ppl leave the field. What US really needs are both medical experts, like yourself and all regular Americans fighting to obtain Universal Healthcare, once & for all. Even with the ACA, it doesn't insure all Americans--10s of millions of Americans are still left out in the cold. It's still "for-profit" insurance companies we all have to deal with & it hasn't stopped about 500K Americans from having to file for bankruptcy EVERY year! ACA was never going to be the real solution. No surprise. Our problem is greedy CEOs! Just look up the billions!! the insurance CEOs are making year after year! And now, private equity companies are getting into the greedy act to take "Medicare Advantage" and turn all of traditional Medicare into "for-profit" insurance!! We already have a 20% gap in coverage drilled in by who? Greedy politicians & lobbyists for health insurance companies!! The sociopathic greed of the very rich is killing Americans. And rightwing politicians & rightwing SCOTUS judges with their Citizens United decision, 2010, this IS the result. This Doc is right, healthcare is political!!
I'm not sure what you mean by "how our population reacted". Considering the long and storied history of pharmaceutical lawsuits, illegal governmental experiments, and corruption of the medical process at every level in the system by SOMEONE who'll take advantage of the opportunity, it's no surprise that the population has become jaded and cynical and deaf to the "dog whistle".
@@tomunderwood4283 50% of the population became virus and vaccine experts overnight after reading facebook posts and youtube videos made by people in a state of psychosis.
Because you LIED and pushed the Covid J A B on people. YOU DID not listen to those of us who had reservations and when we had complications you said it was nothing
Living in the U.S. and growing older I am seeing every aspect of our lives being monetized, including our health, housing and education. These are conscious decisions being made by those with the power to do so. Government, business and capital. This is all consuming and extremely destructive to the fabric of society. It's unsustainable.
Im currently a medical lab student on pause simply bec i got cornered during the PLANNEDemic and be forced to take the C-19 (corruption) jab or get rejected to cont in school n allowed to trained in healthcare facilities. From everybody in mmy class to include instructors, myself n a teacher n staff clerk refusd to take the jab bec we refused to destroy our morality (medical oath) over money (profit). its called NE-GLI-GEN-CE when u harm patients , right Pfizer, moderna?
Under our traditional understanding of what our system was about. But those in power wish a far worse one on us, so they don't care if the system breaks. They look forward to it.
@@noeldeal8087 this stuff doesn't even depress me like it use. I'm just waiting for the Saviors return. This Earth and life is not what it seems. I don't understand why people are so attached to it.
Medicine was ruined in the 1980s when the insurance companies started diagnosis related reimbursement. Them the businessmen became hospital administrators. Doctors and Nurses lost all input into patient care. The the conglimerates bought out the hospital, making medical professionals employees beholding to the corporate stock holders. Lets go back to doctors running their own offices and independent hospitals and kick the greed of the business of medicine to the curb!
Medicine was ruined in the early 1900's when the criminal Rockefeller gang took over the "industry" and created the American Medical Association and placed Maurice Fishbein as its head. He remained in place for 50yrs and was instrumental is destroying the homeopathic and chiropractic system which kept Americans healthy. The Rockefeller Foundation put placement in the Science and Medical chairs in the universities through bursaries and endowment and have controlled everything ever since including the insurance companies which are owned by the Banks which they also control. Medical "science" is fake Rockefeller science designed to keep us sick to make money. They introduced " licencing" for doctors (and everyone else just about). Men and women don't need a licence for anything, especially to help other people. These same gangsters are behind all the wars through ownership of the MIC and they control everything. Read a book by Eustace Mullins called "Murder by Injection" to be enlightened as to the fake science behind medicine and those who set it up for profit. These are the same monsters behind the fake Plandemic and are responsible for millions of deaths over the last century. Until Americans wake up and lock up Nikki Rockefellr and his eugenecist oligarch family, the country will remain in terminal decline, which is their objective for a century.
I have worked in the corporate world for 3 decades. I have not found any exceptions to the observation that the more a company efficiently aligns with its profit motive, the more inhumane it is toward workers and customers. It is immoral to put profits before people, yet our economic system only values profit and all of us are conditioned to believe this is how it should be. More of us need to challenge this.
We are indoctrinated from birth to idolize the rich/getting rich. The system can work when only SOME individuals/corporations/industries sacrifice service for profit. But, the scales have tipped. Now ALL individuals/corporations/industries operate this way. It’s causing our systems to collapse.
we must challenge it all especially because of the extreme covid abuses we must punish the people at the top responsible for this huge breach of ethics that made people die with out treatment, standard of care was stay at home till you need a ventilator and no drugs I got covid before the madness of the protocols and it was treated like the broncial infection it was I was given antibiotics so it would not go into pneumonia. It did not. I used steam treatments and expectorants and in a few weeks was fine again. All at home under dr guidance by phone.
@@johnnysilverhand1733 I live in Canada where healthcare is single payer. It's not perfect but I love it and so do my fellow Canadians. I'm fairly conservative too but some things simply should not be privatized. Education and healthcare are a citizen's right, and privatization does not make it better. Education is privatized and the quality is steadily declining. You clearly haven't listened to the other DOCTORS on here who actually have decades of experience as experts in this field who also say the quality has been declining due to privatization. Capitalism only works for making products for consumers to buy. Education and healthcare are not products, imbecile
@@johnnysilverhand1733 Sadly it is you who are clueless. And deeply unconscious. Profit, money, wealth and economies are constructs created by humans to facilitate our most basic need of survival. They are nothing but tools for us to use. Placing them as more important than human life, or any life for that matter, shows how profoundly you have fallen for illusions and sadly, how little you care for life itself. The economy requires regulations to ensure it works for the good of society and not just for the few who can control its levers. Healthcare is a right because human life is not an means to an end as you profit-lovers want to think. It is an end to itself and has no need to justify its existence.
Or he's just an average person working in healthcare with just basic common sense and basic ethics. His take isnt exceptional, it's logical and what I expect any normal person with basic sense and decent would feel working in the field.
@@jacquelinepeoples379 ... it's obvious that black & white & Asian & brown doctors of all denominations are going to have to work together to get this job done. Yes, black & brown doctors and communities are the canaries in the coal mines, but there have always been some white doctors, nurses, and of course, Jewish Bernie, who have stood tall beside blacks & browns screaming for a more just system. ... perseverance furthers ...
Our Canadian system isn't perfect. I'm always amazed by the lies Americans believe about socialized medicine. I'm sure American insurance companies spend millions (billions) perpetuating the myths about Canadian medical care.
@@MortgageRadio And in reality Canadian model isn't socialized medicine. It is single payor. NHS (although really not in its current state anymore and is rapidly degrading by the conservative movement to completely privatize) is truly socialized. All hospitals and clinics and healthcare workers are owned and run by the NHS and services are paid for by the NHS. I have heard rumors that in some Canadian provinces there has been increased pressures to privatize. Please don't be like the US
Have you ever lived anywhere else? The choices are not either 1. waiting in Canada for months for a specialist appointment or procedures such as cataract surgery or 2. bankrupting your citizens to cover a basic human need in the US. Other countries do better than either Canada or the US.
In Canada my husband has waited over a year for hernia surgery and the other day we got a letter saying he will have to wait another 23-44weeks. Another relative has waited 3 years to see a neurologist!!!! Our doctors are also controlled by government and hospital administrators.
Thank you for teaming up with this wonderful young guy who voices the needs of his and his fellow doctors whose compassion and understanding are heart-connecting -
This man is 10000% correct!! I have now lost 2 of the best doctors I’ve ever had! They’re done … due to the constant control, by insurance companies and not what their patients actually need. It’s unethical and such a tragedy. I just found out this week, a woman on Medicare (regardless of having any supplemental insurance) can no longer a pap from her gynecologist!!! She can only get one from her primary care physician IF Medicare approves that -OMG!!!!! I’ve had the same incredibly brilliant and compassionate gynecologist for almost 20 years. Now I can no longer see him unless I need surgery or have an approved genealogical problem - according to MEDICARE?!?!? WHAT?!?!?! Older women can no longer receive care from the very physicians whose specialty should be valued and respected, unless she pays for the charges herself. I’ve worked my entire life and am now retired. I pay hundreds of dollars each month for Medicare and a supplemental insurance plan. And now I’m being told I can’t continue with my doctor who knows me, has helped me, did life saving surgery on me 4 years ago, who I deeply respect and appreciate his expertise and care. I am OUTRAGED! The system is broken. Doctors are understandably leaving if they can. My beloved gynecology is now retiring after decades of being at the top of his field, when he had no plans to do so. But he can no longer see the very patients he’s cared for for decades, all because Medicare has said, “no.” So now I will have to see my primary doctor - who takes at most 12 minutes per visit with her patients, because she has “a quota” to meet. Is that really care? This is a BROKEN SYSTEM!!!!!! This HAS to change.
Are you on an Advantage plan? These insurance companies have more than half of Medicare members hoodwinked into signing up for an Advantage plan. Advantage plans dictate which doctors you can see, and what is covered via an insurance company. Regular Medicare allows you to see any doctor you want. Be careful when choosing to go on Medicare or an Advantage plan. Advantage plans are replacements for Medicare, not supplemental to Medicare.
@@jadeh2699 no, I am not on and Advantage plan. This new decision about routine Pap smears not being able to be paid if they’re done by a gynecologist was made effective 1/1/23. I can certainly see a gynecologist for a regular/annual pap, but Medicare will not pay for it and thus, since it’s not Medicare approved, my supplemental plan will not pay for it either. I am truly outraged by this - and have it confirmed that this is indeed the case. It’s wrong, so wrong.
I’m a RN and I am on hiatus and I don’t think I’ll go back. It hurts me to give up my passion, but corporate hospitals care more about money over medicine. It’s gross.
What are you going to do? I’m an RN also I’ve considered going back to school for another career, maybe accounting. I’m 37 and hopefully that won’t hold me back. Praying about what direction to go in.
I’ve been a physician for 50 years and it was a glorious profession. We did so much good with so little and as we treated our patients with respect they respected us. Unfortunately everything has gone upside down. We have many more tools to help people but the non-system and our government and industries are in a race to deny us the opportunity to care for our patients as they deserve. Our government and our industries do their best to see that we spend as much time as possible typing, documenting, complying etc that we have neither the time nor the tools to help people. Going forward it’s a catastrophe for those who follow. The best and the brightest no longer choose medicine. Why would you? With 18 months of a 24 hour week you can become a nurse practitioner and get paid the same and not take either responsibility nor night call. Compare that with 7+ years of an 80 hour week to become a doctor. Respect? Nearly none. The unit secretary tells you what to do. Likewise the insurance person at the call center. I love medicine but in good conscience I can no longer recommend it as a satisfying career choice.
Seems like Physicians are now run by AI in Healthcare systems that value profit over wellness. It's more of a sick care system treated with pharmaceuticals and surgeries. Not sustainable or satisfying.
Please don't point your finger at the NPs, we absolutely don't get paid the same as doctors and rarely understand what we are getting into. It made sense to me that I could take the skills and whole-person focus of Nursing to mid-level practice to free up the doctors to manage the most complex patients. I didn't understand that once I finished my education and started working I would be thrown into the deep end. Employers love us because we are cheap to plug in. Suddenly I was managing inpatients who were so much more acutely ill than my education prepared me for. Instead of experiencing the step up in ability to care for my patients in an effective and holistic way that I had hoped to achieve, I found that I was expected to do the work of a physician with little support for the learning curve. Nursing education is a joke played by the ivory tower of people who write the standards and haven't touched a patient in years. I did have to take call. I did have to work 80+ hours a week. I would be willing to accept all of that if the system would actually prioritize care based on acuity. I am instead expected to fill the shoes of a much more highly trained clinician because the company can pay me much less yet expect me to have the same level of productivity. That's not what I thought I was getting into. Now I have nearly $200k in student loans hanging over my head and I can't afford to take a lower-paying position providing outpatient care. I am demoralized too. Providing health care should never have become a for-profit industry. We need a single payer system.
Yes@Michael Plunkett. However, wise younger doctors who truly care about the sick are carving out practices specializing in preventative care and rejecting the model to foster sick care instead of true HEALTH care. A number of them have grateful, smart patients because those patients purposely seek them out.
This is why lobbying should be illegal. Pharmaceutical companies shouldn’t be lining the pockets of politicians to make laws and regulations support this. Not only the companies but all! END LOBBYING!!!!
@@Hotshot24-7 I am most certainly American. You'd be wise not to jump to conclusions based on a name (which I've had since 2013). Lobbying is simply any group who tries to get a politician's attention. Unions, lawyers, pharma, energy, etc. Yes, some of the lobbying groups also come with big carrots. Most are PAC's or SuperPACs. So yeah, they come with the promise or threat of $$ in a few ways. But if do real CFR, that $$ angle gets changed. Interest groups will still lobby, as they should. The 1st Amendment protects that.
@@Hotshot24-7 I am most certainly American... you'd be wise not to jump to conclusions based on a name (which I've had since 2013). Lobbying is simply any group who tries to get a politician's attention. Unions, lawyers, pharma, energy, etc. Yes, some of the lobbying groups also come with big carrots. Most are PAC's or SuperPACs. So yeah, they come with the promise or thrett of $$ in a few ways. But if we do real CFR, that $$ angle gets changed. Interest groups will still lobby, as they should. The 1st Amendment protects that...
As someone that went through covid during residency and now practicing general medicine as an internist and pediatrician in a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center, I can attest to the frustrations my colleagues and I encounter on a daily basis with insurance companies. Insurance companies are private, thus for money entities and not for the wellfare of the population. It's demoralizing not being able to prescribe medications or get studies done because the insurance does not cover them or I have to make patients go through other plans of care that are suboptimal. We definitely need a public healthcare system and also revamped our medical education system, from how expensive it is to become a physician, to how we are compensated.
I’ve never understood how insurance can deny diagnostic studies. All it does is lead to missed diagnoses and spending more on care down the line. Can also lead to shortened life span or even death.
I can be a witness in this understanding. I remember being pregnant with my 3rd child and my OBGYN diagnosed me with Crohn's Disease. I was prescribed medication and after taking it 1 time I refused to continue with the medication. I kept this secret from my Dr. At 7 months pregnant my Dr then decided he was opening his own practice at another State. At our very last interaction he then advised to me that I never had Crohn's Disease, it was something he was required to advise as a way of billing and getting money because I was on Medicaid. Since then I have refused nearly all prescriptioned treatment for any illness because I don't trust our healthcare system any longer.
Wow! And he didn't give a toot that if you believed him, you could've taken unneccary medication WHILE PREGNANT. This comes off really elitist to me. I know some doctors who don't want anything to do with patients who use medicaid because they look down at them. Snobby af
Yes and Medicaid is socialized medicine just like they have in other countries. This guy has some valid points, but a lot of Ppl from those countries go to the US for healthcare. As a hospital provider, I see ppl from all over the world coming to US for better healthcare. And millions coming illegally from South America right now are in the ERs every day courtesy of the US taxpayers. In England the working ppl pay 50% of their income in taxes to pay for healthcare. And the healthcare care is no better, even worse. And under socialist medicine, if you are deemed too old for a certain treatment you are relegated to death due to statistically managed care. So there is good and bad in both systems. Not sure what the answer to it all is.
@@speakdiam OMG, You DO know the answer! We have the highest standard of healthcare in the world. Socialized medicine sucks for all the reasons you mentioned. Half my family is from a country with socialized medicine, and its great for minor problems, and horrible for anything serious. I don't know how it is currently, but the cut-off age for a person who needed regular dialysis was 50!... Sorry! No more money for you. Gotta save it for other younger people. Now you die. My aunt needed a critical heart surgery as she was in heart failure/decompensation. "Sorry! Wait time is 1 1/2 years. We'll see you then if you make it." THAT is what socialized medicine is.
My primary care physician just chose to leave her practice in a clinic setting, will be teaching in the Medical school at the local university. She was one of the best physicians I've ever had, served the medical needs of many individuals & families who were unable to access healthcare for lack of insurance, understanding of the U.S. healthcare system. It was a very difficult decision for her, a great loss for her patients, but necessary for her own mental and physical health.
As Americans, we need to stand up against corporate bullies. If enough people did this the evil would collapse in on itself. Giving up isn't the answer.
As a nurse my day to day care of patients is often dictated by insurance company decisions. Im a nurse, I shouldn’t have to even think about insurance, yet there it is, everyday, in every way. Ive seen homeless drug addicts get months of free care and then we can’t even help a veteran get a prosthetic limb. I dont know the answer, but something is really messed up.
I am 28 and a family medicine physician in my last year of residency seeing my patients. I’d say my 10 years on this journey taught me how much of our health system is a scam. I come home sometimes just wanting to scream cause I’m someone that went into this field cause I cared, simply wanted to help people. But now I feel used as a pawn by higher corporate powers that charge my patients their money and leave me working 80-120 hours/week, finishing notes that need to be essays long to cover all the legal requirements. Patients file into the clinic like sardines, overbooked to the max with the same logic airlines use with flight tickets. But this has become a business that robs lives and leverages on people suffering. And you’re the face of blame, while the admin constantly reminding you to move faster so they can eat the majority of the pie
As a patient I have experienced the aftermath, as a patient I have medical issues untreated because of government regs and insurance. I am sorry for all of us.
well,doctors are part of the system. Salaries are the highest in the world for the same work as any other doctor would do in any other country. Every one work for profit: Doctors ,insurance comp,hospitals.
@@ina-wo2xl Doctors don't make the same money, or have the same level of respect, as they did decades ago. After paying huge malpractice insurance rates, their medical school loans, and all of their office staff, they don't make that much, especially in states like California with mostly HMOs. Some docs earn a lot, but those are mostly certain specialists. And everything is dumped on the PCPs.
Any person who works in healthcare, especially those that have been at it for a few years, can tell you exactly why we are demoralized. Healthcare is a factory that produces money. And this piece nailed it. "A big lie" and "Highest compensation and least effective healthcare" sums it all up.
... and we're gonna re-build it better. We're finally entering the new age of Aquarius. The old age has got to break down ... It's a struggle, but we're gonna make it better - together.
@@violetatcontentboutique7188 Well said. These horrible systems have got to go to make way for something better than we can ever imagine. It's going to be a bumpy ride for a bit but we will get there.
I'm demoralized too, but I'm not a doctor, I'm a well-insured patient. Dealing with the system is so frustrating (and even counterproductive) that I find myself avoiding it. At the moment I'm being hounded to have my annual medicare checkup, and as anyone who's ever had one knows, it's a total waste of everyone's time. No meaningful lab tests, just cookie-cutter questions, another opportunity to record my white-coat-fever blood pressure and current meds incorrectly, and to being talked down to by unmotivated and uninformed support staff. I keep an up-to-date, just-the-facts=ma'am 5-page status and history of my health and meds, but no one is interested in the information in it even though it could save me (and the malpractice folk) from a fatal omission or error. Cleveland Clinic has taken over our local hospital and turned into a corporate exercise in managerial incompetence and destruction of independent physician practices. May The Great Pumpkin save and protect us from Big Medicine and "the system".
Wow, I've had very similar experience. Very well put. It's so scary. I don't even want to go to the doctor anymore. I don't feel it is good for my health, mental or physical. In fact, I fear that it isn't even safe they are so uninvolved and incompetent. Good luck.
Completely agree. There is nothing I despise more than a visit to the doctor. They will not listen, if you express a desire for a certain test, ie; NMR for a better look at your blood , or anything for that matter they refuse, because it's not standard practice, others just don't know what the test is yet .Other doctors rush you through an exam and if you tell them you don't feel well, they just want to medicate you. Most doctors I have encountered have zero interest in exploring why you may be sick or trying to improve your health through other more benign means. I don't hear any mention of the thousands of dollars doctors accept from big pharma for cramming you full of their pills. No denying I have had a very few EXCELLENT doctors, but now that I am 70 and may need really good doctors they are nowhere to be found. I'm to the point that I go to a different doctor for every annual physical, just trying to find one that shows some genuine interest in my health. I can't imagine how people who are ill manage. I know my husband's doctor is just slowly killing him. He brainwashed him into believing type 2 diabetes is incurable, that he can drink diet colas all he wants because they are diet and that as long as he takes all the pills he prescribes he'll be OK. He told him MUST take statin drugs for the rest of his life. I also found the names of all the doctors in his practice on the list of doctors that get kickbacks from big pharma. They're not even ashamed that they are on those public lists. Sorry but I don't feel all that sorry for doctors.
@@Cocora22 Hi! Wow, I feel so bad for you and I totally understand. I recently came across a funny very informative channel on youtube call "Talking with docs" It has great info on all kind of stuff including diabetes. The doctors hosting really seem to care. Not the same thing as going in in person but it's something. I hope your husband can be informed that he can do something about his diabetes with lifestyle changes. Yes, it's really scary as you get older and if you are ill esp. to not have a doctor you can trust or count on. good luck.
Cleveland clinic saved people in my family. The doctors in the area we lived could not give us good alternative care, Cleveland clinic can’t even see people from our area now because private insurance won’t cover Cleveland Clinic second opinion. Don’t talk Cleveland Clinic lies.
I am a physician, license 50 years and 10 years ago when the insurance CEO called me up and told me I was forbidden to help people, I was only allowed to drug them… I told him he could go to hell because I earned the right to practice medicine and he never earned the right to bully me. I have been in practice since but I do not take any insurance and I’m much happier! Bio resonance cures people so as physicians we should all do everything possible to get people away from insurance!
We have a dentist like you in our tiny town of Tehachapi, CA, and God Knows I wish I could afford to see him. He would have saved my upper teeth by re-building my jawbone around them. ... Of course that kind of care is nor covered with any kind of insurance. :(
Glad to hear your response. Personally, I've had so many successful outcomes using Homeopathy and Acupuncture, I've had no use for Allopathic medicine. But it is very useful for trauma care and surgery when needed.
naturopaths have been a great addition to my health team they are much better dealing with chronic conditions than big pharma I got rid of the need to for repeat out patient surgical treatments with inexepensive suppements half a teaspoon of a powder and a lozenge daily solved my problem and no more surgeries. amazing.
I was blocked from 3 important tests, including an MRI, by insurance. As long as our health system is pay up or die, this is going to get worse and worse. Health care- whether you live or die- should never, ever, be subject to market forces, bean counters and someone's profit margins. We have the worst health outcomes and the most expensive health care on earth. We need Universal health care- as they have in every other advanced nation on earth.
I have 2 friends who are married and both physicians who went to New Zealand about 10 years ago on an exchange program with doctors there. After this experience, they sold their home here in the states and are working there quite happily. They told us that they are actually practicing the kind of medicine they trained for without the insurance companies interfering.
great that they found a solution but New Zealand went full bonkers covid Nazis with the shots. hard to escape tyranny just traded it for another variety
Without the Wall Street interference...Its pretty horrible that our healthcare system is the most expensive in the world, does not cover 20% of the people and has stupid outcomes...
My brother was a family practice doctor all his career in small rural clinics in West Virginia. He intentionally went there to help the coal miners and their families. (We were born and raised in the steel mill ( area of West Virginia - higher incomes and financial security.) He had continual rants about the insurance companies and the last 'manage/director' he worked under. She had NO medical background and put alarms on the exam rooms to tell doctors that their 15 minutes with a patient was up, which he ignored. It got so bad that when he had symptoms of a heart attack, he ignored them because dying from the heart attack was the only way he knew to get out of the messed up system. He was 60 years old. That was in 2009, and as his younger sister, I miss him every day. He was the one who got me interested in science as a child, and he helped proofread my doctor doctoral dissertation in science and adult education. Her wouldn't eat lunch (was diabetic) because he needed to write up his patient notes during that time. As for pay, I was making the same $78,000 as he was. Many doctors are over worked, under paid and under appreciated by medical management.
@Saskia Visser unfortunately most people only hear about the brain surgeons or cosmetic surgeons or celebrity doctors, not the regular family doctors. Yes, some them them make good money, but out of their pay comes staff wages, supplies, rent, and medical insurance, which is outrageous. People asked me why I didn't become a doctor. I tell them that I heard all his stories about med school and residency and decided it wasn't my path, and I wouldn't have put up with the nonsense he did.
Here in Canada, physicians from non European countries have been sexually assaulting and fake billing the government. Not all universal health care systems are free from abuse.
@@FaithPetrov there will be "bad apples " no matter which profession you talk about. Some people are "just not wired correctly" and will take advantage of people and rules.
I am an RN (retired). I am glad that I have the knowledge to advocate and navigate for myself and family when we need the system. I left morally injured and still am recovering from the stress of the job. I hope I have helped a few patients along the way.
I’m a new nurse (almost 5 years this December) and if I could do something else I would. It’s awful! I worked covid for two years and still struggling.
Amen. I retired after 30 years, when I was threatened with termination, because I refused the Jab. I was a remote worker with no patient contact, so there was no need to get it. I haven't worked for a year, due to the toll that the stress, has taken on me. I am just getting to the point, where I feel that I can return to work force. However, I have let my license expire, and am a looking for a job outside of the healthcare system.
Totally agree. All patients need an advocate who understands “ the system”. As a retired RN who has had some serious illness in recent years I am only here today because I had a good advocate by my side. Cause I was too sick to keep track of it all. I have acted as an advocate for many family members and friends over the years. But NOW it is even more important!! And do not get me started on insurance companies and hospital CEO’s.
I'm a Physician, and I dropped down to a PA .....cardiology post op care. I have weekends off make less money and spend much time away from the Hospital 5 more years to retire...It was a great move for me....
So true. As an American who has lived in Hungary for 23 years and has 5 kids I can honestly say that even in a middle income country like Hungary the universal health care system is far preferable to the American for profit system. It is far, far less bureaucratic and more efficient and fairer. It’s been great for my kids as well.
Agreed; I lived with my family in the UK for a while, was impressed with how the NHS cares for everyone. NO "Insurance" companies, No malpractice lawsuits, NO sky-high drug prices, just a patient centered system.
This is completely accurate. I’ve been an ICU and ED registered nurse for nearly 40 yrs. I can’t get out of healthcare fast enough. Hospital CEOs and board of directors are getting rich off of the sick. COVID most definitely added to this already horrible situation. My hospital absolutely profited from the pandemic. Federal money did not assist the individuals whom deliver care, nor did it ultimately benefit patient’s. MDs and nurses need to come together to fight for patient’s…and themselves.
When I was in the hospital last year, one if my nurses was the best. She was probably in her 60’s, very patient and calm. She always had a smile on her face. I was always so glad to see her!
100% correct! That's why I left nursing in September of 2021, and I'm not looking back 😊 My life is better now, and it's hard to feel bad for those who didn't stand up with the few of us. They sold out humanity for money. Two certain medications would've saved thousands, if not millions, of lives, but doctors couldn't prescribe it and pharmacies weren't allowed to fill those particular scripts. I'm not going to live with blood on my hands. Those people were pretty much quietly murd€red. And God help anyone who did the hokey pokey. I'll NEVER do the hokey pokey! It's the hill I will die on if need be!
Resident and Fellow doctors do a lot of work in hospital and earn a little money (approx $3-4000 after tax), specially in the Northeast states which have the highest income tax burdens. The young doctors spend 50% or more of their income on housing near the hospitals. The hospitals did not provide them housing assistance. The riches are the hospital CEO, board members and financial advisors etc.
I work in a hospital in SC and let me tell you it’s so terrible it’s a shame I really feel bad for these patients that come in and have to be seen sometimes the wait time is eleven hours 🥺
It's very inspiring to hear this intelligent, articulate doctor. His message is very important. It's also refreshing to hear someone express himself clearly and coherently without dropping "sort-of" and "kind-of" into every other sentence (really ... not once). Great talk all the way around; I'll be looking for more of his presentations.
@@cisium1184 The so-called "not-for-profit" hospital system is part of the problem and even though they are called "not-for-profit," they make loads of money (usually from taxpayer dollars) which is then funneled to administrators, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance companies. Medical professionals are usually left out of the loop and certainly, patients are left out and genuine healthcare is the least of their considerations. "Profits over people", should be the motto of the US healthcare system.
I called my doctor's office to be seen for an infection in a wound. I couldn't get in for 4 weeks. I ended up in ER before I could even get to the doctor. ER gave me meds and sent me away. The antibiotics didn't work, and the infection got worse. Still, my family doctor couldn't get me in. Long story short, after trying to get into my doctor's office for a simple infection, I ended up being hospitalized for IV antibiotics. I have health insurance. I have money. I'm completely done with the medical care system.
@RichardsLadder I couldn't even get in to get the antibiotics. I couldn't get in anywhere for a month. Infections don't wait a month. They get really bad really fast. I guess doctors don't give a fuck.
Listerine gold is an incredible disinfectant for wounds. With all the data in the world available at our fingertips-start learning to have faith in your abilities to treat your own wounds and other medical problems. Did a search for 'holistic wound infection treatments' and came up with many sources. Medicalnewstoday site was very educational including 'when to seek a doctor'. People have got to go back to the days of the 50s parents who had great medical books so they could treat their families and diagnose pretty accurately. Have some curiosity and faith in yourself and body that you CAN heal yourself.
I worked as a nurses aid for 5 years following high school graduation. The next 25 years I worked in a hospital as a Cardio-Pulmonary Tech. I liked my co-workers, I loved the patients, I HATED my job. What was once an environment of "Caring for the sick", became an environment of numbers/ number of patients=$$$$$. During those 30 years, the hospital where I worked, eliminated the Pediatrics floor, closed the OB/nursery dept, drasticly reduced the Intensive Care unit, cut back on surgery procedures, and .................emphasized out-pt procedures. As a patient, an outsider, my care is reduced to "MY Chart", I haven't seen a DOCTOR in ages, and as a nearest relative to my 80 something yr old aunt who lives in an assisted living facility, she's lucky to see a PA maybe once a year. Her "care " is provided by "MY Chart". This is for a person with excellent insurance coverage, and the means to pay for medical care..........................What's WRONG with this picture? I hear this doctor/I read him loud and clear.
I too am a nurse and I’ve seen huge changes in just the past 15 years. Our hospital closed a pedi unit, staff to pt. Ratios are too high to ever be safe, Drs. Face problems without a prior for “ too many” MRIs, then COVID hit and I decided to go into cosmetic nursing. It was always a stressful field but not as stressful and dangerous. I agree something has to change. In one hospital near me literally everyone on staff is a traveling nurse or MD. There is no accountability. I loved patient care but something has to change.
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Pharmaceutical drugs I had been given are deadly. Even eye pressure drops combigan made me faint, pass out to where I crashed my car. Gabapenten makes you stupid, Lexapro causes glaucoma attacks, steroids bleeding lip, and so many more deadly side effects. Don't do it! I don't believe in vaccines, thank God! I ended up with a potassium deficiency. I am now treating me for this. Doctors don't know about potassium deficiency. Now, all those drugs I didn't need that kill. Even the dentist doesn't know how potassium causes gum receding and bleeding gums, more! I can't drive now. I was told if I didn't take the blinding Lexapro the doctor wouldn't see me anymore. Threatening. The doctor now who I like asked me if I took the vaccine? I said no I don't want to die.
I’m a retired educated business owner. If I have a medical crisis at 69 I’ll be bankrupt. Every good dr I've had has been driven out of their practices and must charge 150. Private pay to belong to their practice and continue to see them. After losing three jobs Covid and being almost 70, I am treated so differently as a poor person than I was when I was working and paid 500 a month for my health coverage. My family had great health care growing up. My widowed mother didn’t go broke from my dad’s drs bills. The insurance companies purposely turn down coverage if services and drs are only allowed 10 min at best with each patient . My new dr never looked up from her iPad at me ran in ordered tests ran out . That’s not healthcare .
In many areas sadly PE is the only options for MD employment because PE has completely taken over the entire region health care. Older MD practices will sell out to PE and retire and leave the young docs a shit show and then they all leave soon after. PE are vultures and should be banned from health care... I have heard not much positive from MDs working for PE at all. Its horrid for them.
I learned the hard way about medicine, and that humans have little to no value unless they have fantastic insurance and lots of money. Exactly what this physician is sharing I had to learn as a patient the hard way, and frankly it taught me as far as they are concerned I have no value, and that was a painful thing to learn. Just to be clear, I only feel that way when seeking medical support, I know I have value outside of medicine. Excellent conversation, one that needs more attention, and I sincerely applaud this physician.
There is no "fantastic" insurance in this system. With the exception of Medicare it is all garbage. Even Medicare is in the process of becoming privatized, while President Biden looks the other way. Grotesquely disgusting.
Since the 1970s, the number of nurses and doctors has remained fairly stable while the number of managers and administrators has grown exponentially. There are people in the equation who do not add to the care of patients but pull from the resources that could go toward patient care.
Thanks doctor for speaking out. Many doctors who speak out are punished by the industry in dreadful ways. They are forced to do things they don’t agree with.
The Affordable Care Act has actually become quite unaffordable for many people. One way we can begin to create a more equitable system is to continue to expand Medicaid programs.
Really? The Affordable Care Act is the only reason I can afford health care insurance. By the way, I am NOT subsidized by tax payers. I AM A TAXPAYER, and I pay out-of-pocket for my individual medical insurance.
@@jenesoleil3922 My point is that WITHOUT the Affordable Care Act my premiums would become unaffordable for me - not to mention the pre-existing conditions insanity that would follow with the undoing of the ACA.
Insurance companies have simply worked around by creating astronomically high deductibles. This situation is not sustainable. And yet we know damn well we will never have the political will to change it, and even if we did, there're pretty good odds the SCOTUS would kill it.
Many states have the opportunity but their state governments turned it down. In Missouri the people voted to expand it, but their legislature overruled. They hate the poor and non white
I quit nursing in 2022 when the nursing home I worked for was paying a bonus to the admissions director to accept more residents, but we did not have enough nurses and aids to feed, bathe, or care for them. Residents were clinically depressed from the poor conditions. The nursing home made more money per resident and kept staffing low for profit! For profit hospitals and pharmacies all work the system for $$$, not for healthy outcomes. WE NEED UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!!!
As a former public health doctor I could see the marked difference when the doh switched from free service to charging for services (even if patients didn't have to pay). I agree that the profit motive for health care is making it impossible to get good health care.
Any profession should be paid according to the level of preparation/studies and dedication ( keeping specialties and licenses take hundreds of hours for the entire career of the physician). And probably is the only profession where the professional DOES NOT set the fee as lawyers do.
Yes. All my doctor friends have quit, sold their practices, or are planning to retire. Some early, some in their 70s and love what they do, but have had enough. I don't blame them one bit. We've destroyed our incredible medical system in the US, and those who claim they can fix it, are the very people that caused this collapse of trust. No wonder physicians are not interested anymore in the BS.
Absolutely true. Those who "claim" they can fix the medical system either know nothing about medicine, don't care about people or have their minds bent toward $$$ only. Put that all together and you have BS on steroids.
my medical record was used by a step sister. The algorithm was using data that was not me. She used narcotics I am allergic to. Almost died because of mistake in anesthesia during surgery, scared the anesthesiologist so much that he came to my room and told me to never use oxycodone again. I told him I have never used oxycontin. He just stood up and left. I did not know about the bad data till 10 years later. I am so desperate for medical care I am considering moving to Mexico. I refuse to follow the governments plan to lower narcotic use. The model assumes I can get drugs illegally. I refuse to shop on the black market. This problem with our medical system is not humorous. It is absolutely insane that Mexico has a more compassionate medical system!.
SO MUCH EASIER to get Cartels pain meds than a script from a Dr so I understand what ur saying. Dont know if 5 ppl I loved committed suicide or bought from Cartel which is so easy. Sad when MRIs prove u have pain & it is not going away. Canada is handling this better than USA.
Anybody who has accessed the medical system recently knows that it's deteriorated alarmingly in every way. We should all be marching in the streets for reform and removing the insurance industry and the profit motive from health care.
I appreciate this physician so much. I just taught Health Psychology and the system is broken. That we could have saved over 381k people in pandemic, but didn't is tragic. I'm a PhD and college professor and I see trends in educational system that change how we teach and it is worrisome. What I do may not save lives directly, but many of my students go on to become physicians and lawyers who keep people healthy and free.
yes am hearing they are altering the hippocratic oath to water it down and make it more state dictate friendly than individual centered to align with one political party's Communist ideaology
The communists are coming for your job and if you don't kow tow to bizarre equity officer demands, entailing many more hours spent outside of your teaching schedule, to compose monthly or even weekly reports on how you are serving equity and inclusion goals, you will be sacked. They will also force curriculum content changes and learning metrics to ensure that the standards are continually lowered so that your poorest and least promising students can pass your course and if not, you will be blamed. Communism kills. That's what the WEF is bringing. Try to fight it, if you can.
How ? Are you annoyed that drs couldn’t use certain treatments? People turned away ? What hospitals did that ? The government paid. They lied about people dying from covid for the money - spare me
I'm a nurse, but I can see how Insurance Companies harm patients by going against Dr recommended practices and leave Physicians in the lurch when a patient's condition worsens. Not to mention the large health care companies that gobble up Dr like some kind of Medical Mafia. It's so sad that Physicians feel they have to quit, but I certainly understand why.
My HMO made 8 billion in profits last year. SURELY they could operate making 4 billion a year! But instead continue to cheat us out of our care in favor of stock buybacks.
Insurance companies have perfected their game of extracting premiums and denying claims! The Adam Smith invisible hand of the market is touching me inappropriately!
@Tennessee Jed This whole interview is heartbreaking and anger inducing, but I could keep from laughing out loud at your comment lol. It's quite simply perfect!
@@cherylalt101 Gallows humor is always a hit! We are krill for the Wall Street whales, is another one of my favorites. As well as, the carrot on the string hanging from a stick is made of plastic but the stick is damn real.
@@TennesseeJed Adam Smith was not wrong, but he did not count on was corporatism. Which is NOT capitalism, it's financial cancer, consuming profits with no respect of the host its feeding from.
If you think the doctors are demoralized, consider the fact that patients can't get the care they need. it's impossible to get an appointment with a doctor that has on the order of 1,000 patients. We now have medicine by phone call.
I just left a healthcare job of 7 years, that I tried to make work and all of this is true. Please don't forget the PTs, OTs, SLPs who are also being mistreated by for- profit healthcare systems all across the nation. The strategy is to use us up, and replace us in 2 years. Therapists are a critical and over-looked part of the system. When you have a stroke, brain injury, car accident, get stabbed, etc, etc, it is us who get you out of bed, and back home. We have necessary knowledge and skill. We are not human lifting machines. We work till we drop, we are given less and less time, less help, more patients. Recovery from a moderate to severe stroke is NOT 3 weeks; It is 3-6 months. We can do A LOT to improve peoples lives, but our hands are tied as we are being used as tools for profit. We are leaving because we aren't using our skills, people are suffering, we are being asked daily to bill unethically. The problem is not lack of people willing to do this work, it is a lack of people willing be an overworked clog in a system where we CAN'T do our work. Thanks for reading.
As a CNA, I'm right there with you. And even in a no-lift facility, we're lifting constantly. Within a year of starting, I was in an ambulance from bulging disks.
@@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 You have my sympathy, DS. No different than the situation 50 yrs ago. The agony took me to the edge of suicide before a relative w/ connections got me a Boston surgeon who knew my problem before i got in the office door on crutches--one leg hanging useless. Spine damage undiagnosed for almost a year. That leg was dead in the water. Surgeon saved my life. He knew I would be a suicide if not repaired. Gave up being an LPN. Too risky. It startd the day i had to move a humongous patient in the years. before glutonny became a fad and the first lifting machanisms were just getting started in hospitals. In mine, the new lifts were inadequate for the overweight.. Went to college and changed my career.
Pharmaceutical drugs I had been given are deadly. Even eye pressure drops combigan made me faint, pass out to where I crashed my car. Gabapenten makes you stupid, Lexapro causes glaucoma attacks, steroids bleeding lip, and so many more deadly side effects. Don't do it! I don't believe in vaccines, thank God! I ended up with a potassium deficiency. I am now treating me for this. Doctors don't know about potassium deficiency. Now, all those drugs I didn't need that kill. Even the dentist doesn't know how potassium causes gum receding and bleeding gums, more! I can't drive now. I was told if I didn't take the blinding Lexapro the doctor wouldn't see me anymore. Threatening. The doctor now who I like asked me if I took the vaccine? I said no I don't want to die. I had three injections in my need that didn't work. I took a potassium pill. Now everyday I am well. Knee doctor doesn't know that all these seniors may just need potassium. Even my hair stopped falling out.
I realized this 10 years ago and quit working at a nursing home. It was a difficult decision as I loved the residents and thought for a while that I could make some difference in their lives but eventually it was demoralizing.
As a physician working in this system, I can say we’ve lost our power to lawyers, MBAs, administrators, and insurance companies dictating how we oractice medicine & adding more bureaucracy & administrative demands to our already stressful & busy jobs saving lives & trying to improve the quality of lives of our patients. The health care system is broken for so many reasons, but improving documentation time with AI, unionizing, universal healthcare, & investing in preventative/primary care, mental health, and access to care is a good start.
Totally agree. I am a physician and I recently quit. The corporate quest for profit completely took all of the gratification away for me. I realized that I was giving up my own health and well being and no was going to care for the patients or the physicians. It is not all about the money.
Thanks for this coverage of a topic that is not being covered in proportion to its importance. It is the elephant in the room and we're paralyzed in the headlights of the oncoming crisis. This doctor has experienced this crisis in action. The contradiction between "First; do no harm" and our for profit healthcare system.
I did my Capstone thesis in Healthcare Administration on the history of our healthcare system and it is DARK. In fact, I wanted to drop out of healthcare altogether and did. What Americans don’t know about how their system runs is pretty shocking.
I don’t have either one nor would I go to a doctor! Sad really! My father went to the doctor for 10 years NOTHING lost his stomach and issue continued. I cured him in 30 Days. Pure BS
We certainly didn't build a socialist medical care system. We choose to die younger and work longer. Nobody is unaware of the choice, we choose not to be socialist.
He is right medical became big business plus as a nurse I saw a huge difference in older nurses and new nurses. Salaries became outrageous more ppl went into nursing for $$$$ rather than to give good care. I’ll get blasted for this insight but it’s there and government has turned nursing into just documenting rather than patient care
Absolutely!! RN of 40 years and now retired. For so many of us it is a vocation and was not about the money. Our raises were often frozen when the hospital was in the red, and never in 40 years did I get a raise more than 2%... maybe 5 or 7 cents! Not even equal to COL.
As a nurse of 37 years , I agree. I feel sorry for anyone needing medical care because I noticed the new nurses lack critical thinking skills and compassion.
I'm old enough to remember that this was an urgent matter in the 1970s. There were Senate hearings about it. I don't have suggestions for how to go about it, but we need an organized, unified rebellion against the corporate overlords. And by "we" I mean medicine people at all levels and patients. There are more of us than there are of them and they can't control us if we don't cooperate. I know it would be difficult because people need their medical care. And I know the CEOs and VPs would single out some people to make an example of them to intimidate all of us. It would be hard. That's why an organized plan is needed, so that we can rally around and support the targeted people. The Civil Rights Movement was hard, too. It's never easy to fight against the kind of power, political and financial, that they wield, and the power they have over our medical care. I don't understand why people are complacent and cooperative about it when it's their medical care. I have a reputation as a difficult patient because for what it's worth, I give them a hard time. This has been left to fester for far too long.
Count me in. I have taken so much trauma from providers I have to take a tranquilizer if I see a doctor. Slander is constant . They label me. They intimidate me. They reinforce what one of them says even if they didn't see the event. They enforce their authority over me. I was denied my medicine when in the hospital because they didn't like my personality. Then when I had a seizure they could not understand what was happening.
Plenty of these people vote GOP. Enough to sink any and all effort. Let that sink in. The last person to have the cojones to create a universal healthcare system was HRC 25 years ago. And look what that got her. And us.
Count me in, the medical industry let me suffer for 12 years with an extremely painful condition IC (holes in the lining of my bladder) because all they would repeatedly test me for we common “female” issues, while continually gaslighting me that it was “depression”. It was finally considered by my ob/gyn and had to be diagnosed by taking pictures inside my bladder. My bladder lining was completely covered in “sores” and urine leaked into surrounding tissues for twelve years! I almost let my appendix burst during that 12 years because I was so used to being in that much pain and being disregarded by medical professionals. Now I’ve been struggling with Long CoVid for 3 years (myocarditis, white matter demyelination, inflamed spinal cord, POTS, syncope, lung nodules, all these MRI’s and different specialists and no care plan no protocols to follow , just test after expensive test. I did my own research and I am following the FLCCC treatment protocols and slowly gaining my life back.
@@greenthumb8266 So sorry to hear of all your suffering. Until there is change we must do what we can to understand our bodies and keep them healthy. A lot can be accomplished with healthy diet (real food) and exercise.
Totally agree! My mother died in 2016 at the age of 93. During the last 10 years of her life, she often told us to not get sick because "medicine is in the dumpster". The whole system is set up to make money, not to care for people.
When I was a young RN in the late 1970s Residents would stay at the hospital for 72 hour shifts. They had sleep rooms and we'd do our best not to disturb them at nights. By law an RN could also be worked for 48 hours straight back then. I never had to stay that long but worked many 24 hour shifts with no sleep or breaks. That law has changed.
I was a nurse for 40 years and over that time, witnessed the system quickly turn to financial gain instead of proper patient care. Even in private duty care. I saw the insurance companies determining what medicals supplies / equipment they felt were necessary , without ever meeting the clients! And that’s not even the whole of it…! It felt shameful to work in this field, knowing it was almost impossible to give the proper care.
The bad ones are staying I'm noticing : / They're all on anti depressants and when you have a physical problem they'll say 'anxiety' and try to get you a psychotherapist and on pills.
This is one of the best interviews regarding the US "health care" system I've yet seen. I currently have the benefit of living in my other home country of Costa Rica. This after basically been bankrupted by my late husband's chronic illness within the US system. Costa Rica is a little Central American country but it has had universal care for decades. Covid did not wipe us out, and our health care workers were overwhelmed for a very short period of time. The country worked 24/7 for 2 months before Covid arrived preparing dedicated hospital floors and spaces in anticipation of patients. Not only did the country charter a jet to bring in sufficient PP supplies at the onset, they brought in the equipment needed to produce things like masks to ensure supply chains. We never ran out of these supplies or any food (or toilet paper!). If a small, poorer democratic country like Costa Rica can do right by its people, the US should be able to. FYI, I am a certified holistic care giver who long ago recognized the severely compromised corrupt US health care system. I agree 100% with everything Dr. Reinhart is saying. The problems are widespread and virtually nothing about the US system is meant to improve health and well-being. Thank you for this validation of problems few are willing to speak out about.
My preferred hospital for treatment is in SE Asia. It's a privately owned hospital. Total costs (without insurance) are comparable to the cost of maintaining my car. I don't need insurance. Quality is outstanding. This fact should help guide us in revamping our own system in the USA. So long as we don't address this discrepancy, we will never fix our system. The media and our government studiously avoid mentioning anything about these glaring cost discrepancies. Amanpour tries to inject race issues. Utterly laughable.
I have been an RN since 2008. Worked as a traveler nurse and worked in many many hospitals across the country...I can't wait to retire...or change professions. In America Healthcare is a business not a human right...extremely complicated. .thank you Doctor for speaking up
I am an American who was in the French system of healthcare for 10 years from 1990 to 2000. One day, I called the clinic nearby to schedule my annual (and first one in Paris) breast exam. They said why schedule? Come down this afternoon! I was flabbergasted! I didn't know what to do since I always had to wait weeks in advance for this! I arrived a day or so later at the clinic - one I could have easily walked to. There I received a manual exam by two different doctors, an ultra sound and x-rays. Six radiologist were sitting in the room next to the exam room. The door was open and I watched them for awhile. Wow! 6 different radiologists studying my film! I waited in the waiting room for a short time for my results and was handed a beautiful folder with a letter explaining what the x-ray showed, my x-ray films (in case I wanted to take them with me to another clinic in the future) and my ultra sound pictures and all of the information about where they were taken. They said, "They're yours - take them!!! I cried on the bus on the way home because I had never seen my breast exam x-rays or ultra sounds. I called my sister and she too was flabbergasted by my recounting the experience. After returning to the States and going for my annual exam, I asked the doctor why they didn't do an ultra sound. He said where did you get that idea, that's only in special cases. I said, "It was part of my annual exam when I lived in France." He said, "Oh, they have too many doctors there!" My French exam cost me almost nothing.
Thom Hartmann explained this: The AMA (Cerberus for the insurance companies) have instructed med schools NOT to issue enough licenses to satisfy need to keep doctors' salaries bloated. Med schools are almost unaffordable unless you're born rich. Doctors have clinics that double and triple dip the system much like hospitals for testing (Sam Seder learned this when he began getting colonoscopies because cancer runs in his family). This serves only shareholders, CEOs, and the GOP.
I am amazed that medical doctors are working 120 hours a week!! This is insane and cant be good for them, difficult to believe it serves their patients. Thank you Dr. Rhinehart for this courageous interview. We cannot have change to our horrifying system unless more people like you are brave enough to speak out.
I calculated it as 17 hours a day, 7 days a week. 7 hours for sleep. Can be done. If you're in the middle of a COVID-19 epidemic, and every additional hour is another life saved, it would be worth it. "A doctor must work 18 hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession." -- Dr. Martin H. Fischer, University of Cincinnati, professor of physiology 1910-1950
Sure sounds like the American Health Care System is totally "Broken" reading these replies. Eggs scrambled. Need a National Commission including 33% non medical "Customers" on that Commission to work for a year to come up with a plan on putting back together again - including demanding 1st Choice; Natural Remedies, like Chinese Herbal Medicines and just BANKRUPT Big Pharma. Has to start at Medical School, where Doctors are taught to be Naturalist Doctors 1st, and BAN anyone attached to Big Pharma from even entering their campus's. USA is still probably no. 1 in "Diagnostic Medical Tools and Technology", and very high up there in the Rehab Therapies. but almost DEAD LAST in Medical Treatment Delivery!
@@ABCABC-hd8iq My bro, residents usually work 100-120 hours a week, even though 80 hours is the legal limit. They do this by stretching out the days they work really long.
I bumped into this video in a stream of videos about the recent shooting of the United Health CEO. I realized how this video from a year ago, is still, unfortunately, so relevant today December 2024.
I am 60. My doctors, of over 10-20 years have all quit. They all told me they quit because they are not allowed to practice medicine the way they want to. It is all about the insurance companies and the billable hours. This is awful. We need a change.
Why is it that ppl who live in socialistic healthcare countries are all so much happier and live longer than us? Because those countries like Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, etc...treat their citizens with equal respect and simple humanity, instead of ONLY respecting the rich, like US does.
It's the greedy rich who now own politicians to buy laws allowing only the rich to benefit. 5 rightwing judges on SCOTUS in 2010, a case called Citizens United said, "Money is speech."
So now private equity firms/banks own health insurance companies. Lots more $$$$ to be grifted by taking over Medicare & turning it into a for-profit market.
45 allowed that to happen when he was at the helm! Now, older & disabled Americans have to pay rising Medicare premiums, not to mention, if they sign up with "Medicare Advantage" plans, they could get the notorious "denial letters" all for-profit ins companies send out whenever they just don't want to pay claims. Plus higher co-pays, deductibles, premiums--just like any other private, for-profit insurance company does. There goes the slow destruction of our precious Medicare system!!!
And with the ACA, still 10s of millions of Americans are left uninsured. 500,000 Americans every year still having to file medical bankruptcies, too.
And our life expectancy is getting shorter.
Greedy rich. This is the world they wanted.
Yes, it’s all about insurance companies but it’s also about pharmaceutical companies, making huge profits by only giving dollars to research to treat symptoms rather than research to cure or prevent. What a sick system we have!
Not true. They beg for care and their government offers assisted suicide. You see, government doesn't create anything so it has to manage dwindling resources like Canada and the UK are doing. Biden wants to get us where they are, even worse. He wants to give our resources to 3rd world countries in the name of esg.
This is why, We need Universal Healthcare & to RID Ourselves of profit-driven, Insurance Corporations, but We will need to have courageous Leaders & Politicians, to help Us, to make that happen & We will have to be srong-willed & driven in this pursuit. We have to remove the financial barriers ( full stop). ------Psalms 23
Bingo. My point exactly.
When the insurance industry makes the actual decisions of medical care instead of the doctors leads to demoralization. Makes sense.
Y G: Exactly. My stepfather was a doctor, saw this HMO model coming decades ago. He said that if it did, bureaucrats, instead of doctors, will be making health care decisions. Boy was he right.
This started back in 1985 when the diagnostic grouping were established by the insurance companies who could over rule a doctor’s opinion about care. The insurance companies incentivized the hospitals to provide less care.
It's not just the insurance companies. "Standard of Care" makes doctors conform to treating symptoms in 15 minute increments rather than root causes of illness. It makes them into drug pushers for Big Pharma and companies that sell expensive medical devices that focus on the downstream effects of poor nutrition, stress and toxic environments.
And now politicians bully their way into the exam room.
Agreed! And politicians making decisions about healthcare instead of doctors with their patients also must lead to doctors feeling like all their training and experience is worthless. It's not good for Americans that so many ethically-oriented doctors have left and are leaving the profession. Who will care for us?? 😞
Corporate Greed is 100% the root of the problem. I’m a nurse who’s worked in the acute care hospital in my city for 17 years. It has only gotten worse. Thank God more doctors are coming forward.
I agree. The monetization of health care changed things dramatically. The shortage of medical staff is one of the consequences.
Yet sadly misguided and lied to Americans are putting the blame on ....the "others"...the "things" and "people" that really are not the problem..
Corporate Greed? Okay; “agreed,” but greed and profiteering are at the roots of most of our problems... the whole world over...
People love “making” money way too much at the expense of most everything else.
I agree with the heart of your message. But I CHALLENGE ALL OF US to take a step back and realize the answer is NO! 40% of the problem is Corporate America, 40% of the problem are the politicians and lack of accountability and transparency (politicians have to take the lobbyist money in order for the gambits of Corporate America to succeed), and 20% is the silence and tacit permission by the individual healthcare providers THEMSELVES inherent in silent complacency.
Greed is what is wrong with EVERYTHING.
I’m an RN. We all feel like this. When human suffering is profitable there are those who will make more suffering to make more money.
When the people don't want to make socialism the law, there's going to be sacrifice. Americans aren't innocent. Americans choose this not socialism.
You are selfish.
Yes people are suffering and being prolonged so the insurance can be milked by doctors and nurses. My Dad was recently one of the victims
@@ocsugar Wealthy people have a right to buy their daughter a new Corvette ZR1 for her sweet 16th birthday 🎈🎂. If they cause little people to suffer to extract wealth from the little people to do that then isn't it worth it? A wealthy person's child happiness is worth more than the lives of one million little people.
You are absolutely correct.
After 32 years as a surgeon I am happily retiring in 4 months. I spend far more time on the computer than with the patient. Insurance companies increasingly control care: deny defer and delay, often dishonestly and unethically, counting on the docs being to busy to appeal. It’s entirely about money. Depressing. We need a single payer system.
thank you for your statement. As a patient since I was three with no platelets, I used to be admired by doctors in that somehow I lived. I have all sorts of tricks to stay healthy both mentally and physically. Recently the doctors just deny I am in pain. Amedia stinal thyroid tumor doesnt hurt if you don't have one. And my doctorwanted me to take toradol. They told me Toradol doesnt cause gut aches and doesnt come in pill form, it was toradol or pain, I have accepted Toradol before, never again. I took pain and I'm moving to Mexico.
So very sorry, I hope you are able to somehow find the help you need. The system is very broken, and I too have been through such a nightmare with this system for over 30 yrs., I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of having to deal with more of this.
Thank you. Your. Comment should be heard in Congress.
We've needed it for decades. But at this point, I can only conclude that need does not, nor ever will, lead to change. Too many people are making fistfuls of cash, and the voting populous doesn't have the frontal lobes to vote for change. I've seen more than one gofundme for medical care from people that consistently vote GOP.
Congratulations on your retirement 🥂
Our 22 year old daughter was told she would die because our insurance would not pay for her orphan disease cancer surgery because it was too rare and untested treatment. Instead the insurance company did approve---now she has been in remission for 15 years. Without this surgery she would have been dead. When we were waiting we asked if we could sell our house and pay---we were told no, that would take too long. Need the money now---OMG the system is so broken.
I'm so sorry to hear your story. Good heath for your daughter.
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It is evil! And even more heartbreaking? Some version of this story happens multiple times a day. Often without the happy ending. Our "for profit" system needs not to be reformed, but completely abolished and rekindled from scratch.
@@BlueBearOne yes yes yes it does.
It is not broken. It is working exactly the way it was designed to work: minimize care to maximize PROFIT. That's why our healthcare system is garbage.
My son became a doctor in 2019 he graduated from a very good medical school and then tested out at the top of his residency class. The hospital system he was working for offered him a generous 3 year contract. He loved his work at first, but he began to think about leaving this system. He was seeing more and more interference from non medical administrators telling him how to practice in his practice. He is experiencing doubts about his profession and considering another path. From the time he was a young boy he always wanted to be a doctor
It's maddening to see the for profit side of medicine dictating the practice of medicine. I am sad to see him going through this, such a waste of talent and compassion.
foriegn country is in his future if hes high morals
Tell him to investigate functional medicine. There may be a niche in there for him.
It's shocking he did not know that before he went into it. Everyone knows that corporate greed is a disruption to patient care.
@@jellybellyfun3288 many just ignore the nature of this ginormous trap that is Rockefeller corporate medicine and plunge right ahead even after being warned, thinking that they are somehow going to be the ones to change the nature of this beast.....or that the juggernaut is going to step aside to accommodate whatever sensibilities they have left after completing Med School, an internship and a residency...
Alta med is for the people
Oligarchy is destroying everything decent in our society
Oligarchy = fascism... Fascist governments are known to treat their citizens as cattle... and kill them at will. This is Y2K Holocaust.
Absolutely!!!
It’s called big government.
@ no. Government was supposed to limit the power of oligarchs not be bought out by them. You’re an idiot if you think an oligarch and oligarch cronies will help hoi polloi like yourself.
The best way I've heard it put is "I didn't study and train for 12 years just to have some guy with a business degree tell me what to do".
The bullies are in charge.
Soooo true!!
Spot on !!!
Right! Why the hell is there such a thing as a doctors order? If my doctor evaluates me and based on his expertise he decides that I am in need of therapy or device or medication... so he writes a doctors order for it.
How is it legal for someone that isn't a doctor to ursurp my doctors authority? How is it legal for any non medically licensed staff to make decisions for my health? That is more powerful than my own doctors? How is it a non medically licensed professional can usurp and override my own doctors orders, make decisions on my health, and HASN'T EVEN EVER SEEN OR HEARD ME MUCH LESS EVALUATED ME IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM? .... BUT MY OWN MEDICALLY LICENSED DOCTOR CAN'T DECIDE ANYTHING FOR ME NOR PRESCRIBE OR WRITE ANY ORDERS *_WITHOUT SEEING ME FIRST?!_*
WHAT THE HELL IS THE DOCTOR FOR?!
NON MEDICALLY LICENSED PERSONNEL TOOK THE LIBERTY OF DISREGARDING *ORDERS* SUBMITTED BY A MEDICALLY LICENSED PROFESSIONAL - WITHOUT ANY NOTICE, WITHOUT ANY DISCLOSURE, WITHOUT ANY PERMISSION OR CONSENT, DECISIONS FOR MY DAUGHTERS HEALTH AND LIFE WERE MADE BY NON MEDICALLY LICENSED PERSONNEL IN OPPOSITION TO THE DOCTORS ORDERS MY DAUGHTERS NEUROLOGIST SUBMITTED!!
It's not just blatant _fraud_ amongst others... it's also the whole reason for the new classification of --- ... 🙊... ... _(enter "not worth it" language and point here)_ ........
#Wetiko
...and these guys with the business degrees running these hospitals are collectively on code, in making sure that physicians do not advance into C-suite positions of power. There is alot of animosity among these groups. They require physicians to obtain MBA's to get into executive positions.
As a nurse this doc absolutely gets it and shared absolute truths that Americans need to hear. Well done! 👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥
As a nurse I second your comment.
thanks Dr Reinhart for bringing this fundamental FLAW in US HEALTHCARE to everyone's attention. As with other corruption in America, US Healthcare
corporations only
care for it's profits, patients be damned.
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Me 5th.
Imagine going to college for 8 years, only to have the insurance companies make all medical decisions for you. 💔
A clerk in Phoenix on a computer rejecting everything.
More like 4 yrs of college, 4 yrs of medical school, and 4-7 yrs of residency training...
More than that! In the US at least add a year of internship rotations and 3 or more years Residency like my son-- just did so the WHO (UN) run by a non-expert bureaucrat could order him around!
Government will also do that.
Doctors write prescriptions. No conversations with patients about health.
Wow! Dr. Reinhart intelligently and articulately hit the nail on the head about our health care system.
I’m a primary care physician. It is just horrible practicing traditional primary care. The horrific destruction I see every day in our healthcare by these greedy systems are mind blowing. You cannot prescribe even a generic medication for your patient without a prior authorization. You can’t order a test without a prior authorization. Coupled with patients who go to the ER only to be sent home with Follow up with your primary care. You are so emotionally drained because of regulatory demands and also fear of always being sued. Frivolous lawsuits driven by lawyers. You are almost forced into employment because you can’t pay the bills of the clinic. EMRs that were supposed to help us, send us into countless hours way beyond your office hours, spent to complete charts. The medical record is now weaponized by every one. Family relationships are affected because you are so drained. Through it all I still wake up and return because I love what I went into medicine to do, take care of patients. Something has to change and fast!
How old are you? This isn't the traditional primary care....
Thank you so much...😘💖🌹 for all you do for your fellow man...
I think physicians & patient need to unite & form an organization to confront the issues both politically & within the system. We need some inspiring people to organize a multifaceted approach to confront &
@@brownfeather865 ??? What is your definition?
@@nimekupata Let it be known that I don't have a definition.... I never came up with one! What word do you want defined?
I left mainstream medicine after nearly 30 years of practice. A major hospital system bought our breast cancer clinic (I voted against the sale, but 8 of my partners voted to sell). Overnight it became a corporate practice with an emphasis on money. My nurse of over 10 years was forced out, because she was at the high end of the pay scale, and had to be replaced by TWO nurses. (She was that talented). I was treated horribly even though I was a founding member of the practice and knew what to do to deliver stellar care. I left after 2 years and reinvented myself as a health coach. I now help people achieve a healthy weight, eliminate medications and reverse diseases such as diabetes and hypertension with proper diet and lifestyle. I am making a huge impact without expensive prescription drugs or crazy recommendations such as bariatric surgery. I'm saving lives and reducing people's healthcare costs!
Fantastic!! Thank you for truly caring
Thank you for practicing what my family calls "real medicine"- you are making people well
Sounds great! Do you currently work with cancer patients also?
That's what we need, not the commie-care the two clowns above are shilling for. -Sincerely, Ms. S. Burke.
Is what you are doing now be considered Value-based Care? Value-based care is centered around the idea of improving healthcare quality for patients and preventing problems before they start. This focus on prevention lowers the need for expensive medical tests, ineffective medications and unnecessary procedures.
I am American but have lived overseas for many years. As I watch trends in America, it seems very clear that the USA is drowning in costs, and ultimately greed. And it's not just the medical profession. Housing, politics, the unjustified costs of groceries, gasoline. It is destroying the middle class and has created a "haves and have-nots" culture. It's becoming easier to see why America is on the decline.
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Same!
We are run by an “elite “ society. Every politician is in the upper wage category after a couple of years in office. All the laws regulations etc are made to benefit them and those in same category. It’s almost impossible for someone without a law degree or wealth to run for office we are generally screwed
And turn off your TV s because it's all lies from them. Get your news from many platforms and sites on the net.
usa is owned by big business. they own everything.
As a physician for 30 years, I have to say this has become a horrible profession. If you enjoy being a servant, then this is your dream job.
I love being a servant of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ but not a servant of corruption.
Stand up and tell the public what's going on. Don't just lay down and take it.
I signed up to be a servant of the people, not of corporations. I was hospitalized with what has turned out to be stress-related illness and quit after 4 decades. I have not felt better in 20 years. The job is killing us because of the conflicting emotions.
As a physician who left the field two decades ago out of dissatisfaction with an earlier stage of the destructive revisioning of American healthcare as an industry, please take Dr. Reinhart seriously. We once bragged (falsely for disadvantaged communities) of having the best healthcare system in the world. Now the results of the business transformation are so obvious that not even its defenders have the nerve to pretend anymore.
But raise a glass to the financial health of the captains of the industry. They're feeling fine.
It's a scary world now. It's really hard to get decent medical care in the U.S. nowadays. It just seems to be getting worse.
@@wordswordswords8203 A lot of us have just given up even seeking "medical care" we get 0% benefit and a burdensome bill if we do so. (not to mention wasted time and psychological stress)
@The T.I. Experience exactly and so many dumb Obama voters never GOT that was beyond me. Plus Doctors never stood up against BObama using white jacket-clad nonphysicians for that Rose Garden stunt.
@@wordswordswords8203 no if you have MONEY exactly as in the UK you can get good medical care!
@@poigmhahon I agree. It usually causes more harm that good.
Didn't come into this one expecting much, but this guy's testimony was compelling and razor-sharp. Here's hoping leadership pays attention
When the "leadership" is bought and paid for by the health insurance companies, the leadership IS the insurance companies. The foxes are in charge of the henhouse. No need to "listen". They've created today's healthcare system and have no incentive to change it. ALL of healthcare should not be a business, where the profit motive is the only incentive and deciding factor.
Leadership already knows. They are the ones invested in the insurance companies. Things will not change until all US citizens stand up and demand that their representatives start actually representing the citizens instead of themselves when legislating.
@@jadeh2699 I tend to agree with all of that. This time, though, I wonder if headlines of plummeting life expectancy will put a fine enough point on the issue to prompt them to act. It's kinda hard to imagine a more radioactive ballot issue than dying sooner, but then again, we regularly vote against our best interests...
Leadership won't do a thing. They do not want to risk upsetting their donors.
They won't.
Way to nail it, sir! Who to blame? Profiteering insurance companies AND the politicians they lobby and pay off are disgusting and should carry the blame.
You left something out..... which you'll remember, the next time you end up in the hospital and they charge you $10 per bandaid.
Term limits!
We need freedom from the insurance companies, we need menu-style pricing, we need to overthrow the doctor's union that is artificially restricting the number of doctors, we need to stop the influence of big pharma on pill pushing doctors, etc.
I drew up a business plan with my step brother to run a store that offers X-ray and MRI services. No diagnoses, just the scans, that they can take to their doctors. We found we could be profitable in a year, and making money like crazy after that, charging only $20/x-ray, and $40/MRI. But it is illegal for us to operate separate from a hospital. That's anti-capitalist behavior that is Preventing affordable competition to the market, driving up prices.
True medicine is affordable out of pocket, if we overthrew the anti-capitalist pro-monopoly forces at play.
@@marycontrary6216: the cost of band aid has gone up because it has been moved into an upper tier. Patients are being gouged by the basics being shifted into a more expensive tier.
How about making these politicians pay out of pocket for the SAME care that we receive? Don't forget, the US taxpayers fund their healthcare - and it's 24K gold standard care too!
The most experienced nurses are leaving also. We see the moral incompetence of the medical profession. We are done with this.
So the hell with people, just let them fend for themselves with the evil ones that stay. Got cha. It's about money and ego and not about people.
Didn't we find that out during the pandemic??
Keeping people from getting needed surgeries, meds,just seeing the doctor for checkup.
I am a diabetic and I couldn't get Medformin because I couldn't see a doctor to get the script for over 18 months.
Thank God I was able to get a substute. I will get to see an Herbalist before I see a doctor nowadays.
Yeah and they dont make as much. They are all worn out. Many of them are getting older and have to focus on their families.
I practiced medicine for almost 30 years. I remember the first lecture in medical school where we were told the most important rule was that anything we do we always do for the patient. I graduated at the top of my class and did a fifth year to learn how to evaluate medical studies and data. I spent my entire career in rural Healthcare because that was where care was needed the most. I saw private equity infiltrate medicine turning it into an industry that guts quality and safety of care placing profit as the only goal. I was outspoken about this when it hit our community since I wads one of the few independent physicians remaing. I was crushed and my career was ended because of this. The public would be appalled if they understood how much of medicine is geared toward expensive and ineffective treatments and how they are viewed as only modules of profit.
Thank You!
Thank you for being an agent of good. ❤
As a patient I avoid the medical establishment at all cost and pray my loved ones never get sick.
I’m an RN and was fired just before covid for speaking up about corruption in healthcare! I didn’t use the word corruption in my speaking out, I use it now as a general term for the many unethical, immoral, deceitful actions within healthcare. I keep my license up to date but have not returned to healthcare, Im not sure I want to be a part of such a system :(
Yes. Under capitalism EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE is viewed as an equation on a balance sheet aimed at profit. No system in this country can operate outside of this fact. Human widgets.
As a former med student whose class lost 25% of its students (myself included) we just can’t do it anymore after covid bc of how our population reacted and then we go back to this screwed up system. I’m glad someone is talking about this. Maybe one day we can come back to medicine and put our passion to work for others once more.
I am sorry to see once passionate- about-medicine ppl leave the field. What US really needs are both medical experts, like yourself and all regular Americans fighting to obtain Universal Healthcare, once & for all.
Even with the ACA, it doesn't insure all Americans--10s of millions of Americans are still left out in the cold. It's still "for-profit" insurance companies we all have to deal with &
it hasn't stopped about 500K Americans from having to file for bankruptcy EVERY year!
ACA was never going to be the real solution. No surprise. Our problem is greedy CEOs! Just look up the billions!! the insurance CEOs are making year after year!
And now, private equity companies are getting into the greedy act to take "Medicare Advantage" and turn all of traditional Medicare into "for-profit" insurance!! We already have a 20% gap in coverage drilled in by who?
Greedy politicians & lobbyists for health insurance companies!!
The sociopathic greed of the very rich is killing Americans. And rightwing politicians & rightwing SCOTUS judges with their Citizens United decision, 2010, this IS the result.
This Doc is right, healthcare is political!!
I'm not sure what you mean by "how our population reacted". Considering the long and storied history of pharmaceutical lawsuits, illegal governmental experiments, and corruption of the medical process at every level in the system by SOMEONE who'll take advantage of the opportunity, it's no surprise that the population has become jaded and cynical and deaf to the "dog whistle".
How did our population react?
@@tomunderwood4283 50% of the population became virus and vaccine experts overnight after reading facebook posts and youtube videos made by people in a state of psychosis.
Because you LIED and pushed the Covid J A B on people. YOU DID not listen to those of us who had reservations and when we had complications you said it was nothing
Living in the U.S. and growing older I am seeing every aspect of our lives being monetized, including our health, housing and education. These are conscious decisions being made by those with the power to do so. Government, business and capital. This is all consuming and extremely destructive to the fabric of society. It's unsustainable.
Im currently a medical lab student on pause simply bec i got cornered during the PLANNEDemic and be forced to take the C-19 (corruption) jab or get rejected to cont in school n allowed to trained in healthcare facilities. From everybody in mmy class to include instructors, myself n a teacher n staff clerk refusd to take the jab bec we refused to destroy our morality (medical oath) over money (profit). its called NE-GLI-GEN-CE when u harm patients , right Pfizer, moderna?
2 Timothy 3:1-5
Yes unsustainable - thats why they want to reduce the population.
Under our traditional understanding of what our system was about. But those in power wish a far worse one on us, so they don't care if the system breaks. They look forward to it.
@@noeldeal8087 this stuff doesn't even depress me like it use. I'm just waiting for the Saviors return. This Earth and life is not what it seems. I don't understand why people are so attached to it.
Medicine was ruined in the 1980s when the insurance companies started diagnosis related reimbursement. Them the businessmen became hospital administrators. Doctors and Nurses lost all input into patient care. The the conglimerates bought out the hospital, making medical professionals employees beholding to the corporate stock holders. Lets go back to doctors running their own offices and independent hospitals and kick the greed of the business of medicine to the curb!
Medicine was ruined in the early 1900's when the criminal Rockefeller gang took over the "industry" and created the American Medical Association and placed Maurice Fishbein as its head. He remained in place for 50yrs and was instrumental is destroying the homeopathic and chiropractic system which kept Americans healthy. The Rockefeller Foundation put placement in the Science and Medical chairs in the universities through bursaries and endowment and have controlled everything ever since including the insurance companies which are owned by the Banks which they also control. Medical "science" is fake Rockefeller science designed to keep us sick to make money. They introduced " licencing" for doctors (and everyone else just about). Men and women don't need a licence for anything, especially to help other people.
These same gangsters are behind all the wars through ownership of the MIC and they control everything. Read a book by Eustace Mullins called "Murder by Injection" to be enlightened as to the fake science behind medicine and those who set it up for profit.
These are the same monsters behind the fake Plandemic and are responsible for millions of deaths over the last century. Until Americans wake up and lock up Nikki Rockefellr and his eugenecist oligarch family, the country will remain in terminal decline, which is their objective for a century.
I have worked in the corporate world for 3 decades. I have not found any exceptions to the observation that the more a company efficiently aligns with its profit motive, the more inhumane it is toward workers and customers. It is immoral to put profits before people, yet our economic system only values profit and all of us are conditioned to believe this is how it should be. More of us need to challenge this.
We are indoctrinated from birth to idolize the rich/getting rich. The system can work when only SOME individuals/corporations/industries sacrifice service for profit. But, the scales have tipped. Now ALL individuals/corporations/industries operate this way. It’s causing our systems to collapse.
we must challenge it all especially because of the extreme covid abuses we must punish the people at the top responsible for this huge breach of ethics that made people die with out treatment, standard of care was stay at home till you need a ventilator and no drugs I got covid before the madness of the protocols and it was treated like the broncial infection it was I was given antibiotics so it would not go into pneumonia. It did not. I used steam treatments and expectorants and in a few weeks was fine again. All at home under dr guidance by phone.
@@johnnysilverhand1733 I live in Canada where healthcare is single payer. It's not perfect but I love it and so do my fellow Canadians. I'm fairly conservative too but some things simply should not be privatized. Education and healthcare are a citizen's right, and privatization does not make it better. Education is privatized and the quality is steadily declining. You clearly haven't listened to the other DOCTORS on here who actually have decades of experience as experts in this field who also say the quality has been declining due to privatization. Capitalism only works for making products for consumers to buy. Education and healthcare are not products, imbecile
You hit the nail on the head.
@@johnnysilverhand1733 Sadly it is you who are clueless. And deeply unconscious. Profit, money, wealth and economies are constructs created by humans to facilitate our most basic need of survival. They are nothing but tools for us to use. Placing them as more important than human life, or any life for that matter, shows how profoundly you have fallen for illusions and sadly, how little you care for life itself.
The economy requires regulations to ensure it works for the good of society and not just for the few who can control its levers. Healthcare is a right because human life is not an means to an end as you profit-lovers want to think. It is an end to itself and has no need to justify its existence.
What a brilliant and moral doctor.
What’s brilliant? BLACK doctors have advocated for equity in medicine.
@@jacquelinepeoples379 Everything this doctor said was true and perfectly stated. Why bring up race?
I love the way he makes his points. A very insightful understanding of right and wrong. True brilliance indeed.
Or he's just an average person working in healthcare with just basic common sense and basic ethics. His take isnt exceptional, it's logical and what I expect any normal person with basic sense and decent would feel working in the field.
@@jacquelinepeoples379 ... it's obvious that black & white & Asian & brown doctors of all denominations are going to have to work together to get this job done. Yes, black & brown doctors and communities are the canaries in the coal mines, but there have always been some white doctors, nurses, and of course, Jewish Bernie, who have stood tall beside blacks & browns screaming for a more just system. ... perseverance furthers ...
We have a great system in Canada not perfect but still fantastic . My opinion is that medicine should be a service not a business
As soon as you apply Capitalism to it, and fees, it becomes a game of how to extract the maximum fees for each and every patient you treat.
Our Canadian system isn't perfect. I'm always amazed by the lies Americans believe about socialized medicine. I'm sure American insurance companies spend millions (billions) perpetuating the myths about Canadian medical care.
@@MortgageRadio And in reality Canadian model isn't socialized medicine. It is single payor. NHS (although really not in its current state anymore and is rapidly degrading by the conservative movement to completely privatize) is truly socialized. All hospitals and clinics and healthcare workers are owned and run by the NHS and services are paid for by the NHS. I have heard rumors that in some Canadian provinces there has been increased pressures to privatize. Please don't be like the US
Have you ever lived anywhere else? The choices are not either 1. waiting in Canada for months for a specialist appointment or procedures such as cataract surgery or 2. bankrupting your citizens to cover a basic human need in the US. Other countries do better than either Canada or the US.
In Canada my husband has waited over a year for hernia surgery and the other day we got a letter saying he will have to wait another 23-44weeks. Another relative has waited 3 years to see a neurologist!!!! Our doctors are also controlled by government and hospital administrators.
Thank you for teaming up with this wonderful young guy who voices the needs of his and his fellow doctors whose compassion and understanding are heart-connecting -
This man is 10000% correct!! I have now lost 2 of the best doctors I’ve ever had! They’re done … due to the constant control, by insurance companies and not what their patients actually need. It’s unethical and such a tragedy.
I just found out this week, a woman on Medicare (regardless of having any supplemental insurance) can no longer a pap from her gynecologist!!! She can only get one from her primary care physician IF Medicare approves that -OMG!!!!! I’ve had the same incredibly brilliant and compassionate gynecologist for almost 20 years. Now I can no longer see him unless I need surgery or have an approved genealogical problem - according to MEDICARE?!?!? WHAT?!?!?!
Older women can no longer receive care from the very physicians whose specialty should be valued and respected, unless she pays for the charges herself. I’ve worked my entire life and am now retired. I pay hundreds of dollars each month for Medicare and a supplemental insurance plan. And now I’m being told I can’t continue with my doctor who knows me, has helped me, did life saving surgery on me 4 years ago, who I deeply respect and appreciate his expertise and care. I am OUTRAGED!
The system is broken. Doctors are understandably leaving if they can. My beloved gynecology is now retiring after decades of being at the top of his field, when he had no plans to do so. But he can no longer see the very patients he’s cared for for decades, all because Medicare has said, “no.” So now I will have to see my primary doctor - who takes at most 12 minutes per visit with her patients, because she has “a quota” to meet. Is that really care?
This is a BROKEN SYSTEM!!!!!! This HAS to change.
Are you on an Advantage plan? These insurance companies have more than half of Medicare members hoodwinked into signing up for an Advantage plan. Advantage plans dictate which doctors you can see, and what is covered via an insurance company. Regular Medicare allows you to see any doctor you want. Be careful when choosing to go on Medicare or an Advantage plan. Advantage plans are replacements for Medicare, not supplemental to Medicare.
@@jadeh2699 no, I am not on and Advantage plan. This new decision about routine Pap smears not being able to be paid if they’re done by a gynecologist was made effective 1/1/23. I can certainly see a gynecologist for a regular/annual pap, but Medicare will not pay for it and thus, since it’s not Medicare approved, my supplemental plan will not pay for it either. I am truly outraged by this - and have it confirmed that this is indeed the case. It’s wrong, so wrong.
@@papabear2515 America hates it’s women.
@@denisemcallister2586 I know. Terribly sexist and unfair!
@hollywood6471 yup ..totally agree!
I’m a RN and I am on hiatus and I don’t think I’ll go back. It hurts me to give up my passion, but corporate hospitals care more about money over medicine. It’s gross.
What are you going to do? I’m an RN also I’ve considered going back to school for another career, maybe accounting. I’m 37 and hopefully that won’t hold me back. Praying about what direction to go in.
Hellooo can’t you be a naturopathic nurse?!
@@Actavella - I’ve been thinking about massage therapy. Do you have a BSN? If I had mine I’d go to Chiropractic school
@@LaSmoocherina I do have my BSN. Chiropractic school sounds cool, possibly more loans . Not sure what direction to go in. We’ll see
@@Actavella - but you can open your own practice. I say partner with an NP. Full care
I’ve been a physician for 50 years and it was a glorious profession. We did so much good with so little and as we treated our patients with respect they respected us.
Unfortunately everything has gone upside down. We have many more tools to help people but the non-system and our government and industries are in a race to deny us the opportunity to care for our patients as they deserve. Our government and our industries do their best to see that we spend as much time as possible typing, documenting, complying etc that we have neither the time nor the tools to help people.
Going forward it’s a catastrophe for those who follow. The best and the brightest no longer choose medicine. Why would you? With 18 months of a 24 hour week you can become a nurse practitioner and get paid the same and not take either responsibility nor night call. Compare that with 7+ years of an 80 hour week to become a doctor.
Respect? Nearly none. The unit secretary tells you what to do. Likewise the insurance person at the call center.
I love medicine but in good conscience I can no longer recommend it as a satisfying career choice.
It's gotten a lot longer in school and residencies to practice now. 7 or 8 years med school and 3 or more residency at the least
Seems like Physicians are now run by AI in Healthcare systems that value profit over wellness. It's more of a sick care system treated with pharmaceuticals and surgeries. Not sustainable or satisfying.
Please don't point your finger at the NPs, we absolutely don't get paid the same as doctors and rarely understand what we are getting into. It made sense to me that I could take the skills and whole-person focus of Nursing to mid-level practice to free up the doctors to manage the most complex patients. I didn't understand that once I finished my education and started working I would be thrown into the deep end. Employers love us because we are cheap to plug in. Suddenly I was managing inpatients who were so much more acutely ill than my education prepared me for. Instead of experiencing the step up in ability to care for my patients in an effective and holistic way that I had hoped to achieve, I found that I was expected to do the work of a physician with little support for the learning curve. Nursing education is a joke played by the ivory tower of people who write the standards and haven't touched a patient in years. I did have to take call. I did have to work 80+ hours a week. I would be willing to accept all of that if the system would actually prioritize care based on acuity. I am instead expected to fill the shoes of a much more highly trained clinician because the company can pay me much less yet expect me to have the same level of productivity. That's not what I thought I was getting into. Now I have nearly $200k in student loans hanging over my head and I can't afford to take a lower-paying position providing outpatient care. I am demoralized too. Providing health care should never have become a for-profit industry. We need a single payer system.
Your opinion of NP’s is antiquated and unfair.
Yes@Michael Plunkett. However, wise younger doctors who truly care about the sick are carving out practices specializing in preventative care and rejecting the model to foster sick care instead of true HEALTH care. A number of them have grateful, smart patients because those patients purposely seek them out.
This is why lobbying should be illegal. Pharmaceutical companies shouldn’t be lining the pockets of politicians to make laws and regulations support this. Not only the companies but all! END LOBBYING!!!!
Lobbying isn't the core problem. Campaign finance is. And we'll need a constitutional amendment to fix that.
@@presence5426 lobbying is technically campaign finance. Are you American?
@@presence5426 with a name like that makes me suspect you’re some kind of public diplomacy bot 🤖
@@Hotshot24-7 I am most certainly American. You'd be wise not to jump to conclusions based on a name (which I've had since 2013). Lobbying is simply any group who tries to get a politician's attention. Unions, lawyers, pharma, energy, etc. Yes, some of the lobbying groups also come with big carrots. Most are PAC's or SuperPACs. So yeah, they come with the promise or threat of $$ in a few ways. But if do real CFR, that $$ angle gets changed. Interest groups will still lobby, as they should. The 1st Amendment protects that.
@@Hotshot24-7 I am most certainly American... you'd be wise not to jump to conclusions based on a name (which I've had since 2013). Lobbying is simply any group who tries to get a politician's attention. Unions, lawyers, pharma, energy, etc. Yes, some of the lobbying groups also come with big carrots. Most are PAC's or SuperPACs. So yeah, they come with the promise or thrett of $$ in a few ways. But if we do real CFR, that $$ angle gets changed. Interest groups will still lobby, as they should. The 1st Amendment protects that...
As someone that went through covid during residency and now practicing general medicine as an internist and pediatrician in a Federally Qualified Healthcare Center, I can attest to the frustrations my colleagues and I encounter on a daily basis with insurance companies. Insurance companies are private, thus for money entities and not for the wellfare of the population. It's demoralizing not being able to prescribe medications or get studies done because the insurance does not cover them or I have to make patients go through other plans of care that are suboptimal. We definitely need a public healthcare system and also revamped our medical education system, from how expensive it is to become a physician, to how we are compensated.
You mean... we need a NOT FOR PROFIT system. That (a 'for-profit' system), in itself, is unethical. WHY do we put up with it?
I’ve never understood how insurance can deny diagnostic studies. All it does is lead to missed diagnoses and spending more on care down the line. Can also lead to shortened life span or even death.
@@jillengel4124 All true. It IS NOT ABOUT OUR HEALTH. It IS about money. We need a whole new system.
@@jillengel4124 Sad to say, I think part of the current insurance plan, is the hope that some patients may die before coverage is finally approved.
@@andreaandrea6716 Americans have been brainwashed into thinking it's the only way. Any other system would be COMMUNIST ! (Courtesy of GOP)
I can be a witness in this understanding. I remember being pregnant with my 3rd child and my OBGYN diagnosed me with Crohn's Disease. I was prescribed medication and after taking it 1 time I refused to continue with the medication. I kept this secret from my Dr. At 7 months pregnant my Dr then decided he was opening his own practice at another State. At our very last interaction he then advised to me that I never had Crohn's Disease, it was something he was required to advise as a way of billing and getting money because I was on Medicaid. Since then I have refused nearly all prescriptioned treatment for any illness because I don't trust our healthcare system any longer.
That's basically terrifying.
Wow! And he didn't give a toot that if you believed him, you could've taken unneccary medication WHILE PREGNANT.
This comes off really elitist to me. I know some doctors who don't want anything to do with patients who use medicaid because they look down at them. Snobby af
Yes and Medicaid is socialized medicine just like they have in other countries. This guy has some valid points, but a lot of Ppl from those countries go to the US for healthcare. As a hospital provider, I see ppl from all over the world coming to US for better healthcare. And millions coming illegally from South America right now are in the ERs every day courtesy of the US taxpayers. In England the working ppl pay 50% of their income in taxes to pay for healthcare. And the healthcare care is no better, even worse. And under socialist medicine, if you are deemed too old for a certain treatment you are relegated to death due to statistically managed care. So there is good and bad in both systems. Not sure what the answer to it all is.
This is chilling!
@@speakdiam OMG, You DO know the answer! We have the highest standard of healthcare in the world. Socialized medicine sucks for all the reasons you mentioned. Half my family is from a country with socialized medicine, and its great for minor problems, and horrible for anything serious. I don't know how it is currently, but the cut-off age for a person who needed regular dialysis was 50!... Sorry! No more money for you. Gotta save it for other younger people. Now you die. My aunt needed a critical heart surgery as she was in heart failure/decompensation. "Sorry! Wait time is 1 1/2 years. We'll see you then if you make it." THAT is what socialized medicine is.
Working 120 hours a week means sleep and social deprivation. That compromises function.
My primary care physician just chose to leave her practice in a clinic setting, will be teaching in the Medical school at the local university.
She was one of the best physicians I've ever had, served the medical needs of many individuals & families who were unable to access healthcare for lack of insurance, understanding of the U.S. healthcare system. It was a very difficult decision for her, a great loss for her patients, but necessary for her own mental and physical health.
As Americans, we need to stand up against corporate bullies. If enough people did this the evil would collapse in on itself. Giving up isn't the answer.
Refresh the tree of Liberty.
@@mgc7199 Yes indeedy!
these bullies are there to please their shareholders by maximizing profits...it's a well oiled system...got a 401k? that's the problem
@@zu0832 That's true! They've done it all at the expense of others.
Unfortunately, corporations and the wealthy in general, own Congress
As a nurse my day to day care of patients is often dictated by insurance company decisions. Im a nurse, I shouldn’t have to even think about insurance, yet there it is, everyday, in every way. Ive seen homeless drug addicts get months of free care and then we can’t even help a veteran get a prosthetic limb. I dont know the answer, but something is really messed up.
I am 28 and a family medicine physician in my last year of residency seeing my patients. I’d say my 10 years on this journey taught me how much of our health system is a scam. I come home sometimes just wanting to scream cause I’m someone that went into this field cause I cared, simply wanted to help people. But now I feel used as a pawn by higher corporate powers that charge my patients their money and leave me working 80-120 hours/week, finishing notes that need to be essays long to cover all the legal requirements. Patients file into the clinic like sardines, overbooked to the max with the same logic airlines use with flight tickets. But this has become a business that robs lives and leverages on people suffering. And you’re the face of blame, while the admin constantly reminding you to move faster so they can eat the majority of the pie
As a patient I have experienced the aftermath, as a patient I have medical issues untreated because of government regs and insurance. I am sorry for all of us.
well,doctors are part of the system. Salaries are the highest in the world for the same work as any other doctor would do in any other country. Every one work for profit: Doctors ,insurance comp,hospitals.
@@ina-wo2xl and I bet that at most hospitals make a LOT more than the MDs on staff at those hospitals
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@@ina-wo2xl Doctors don't make the same money, or have the same level of respect, as they did decades ago. After paying huge malpractice insurance rates, their medical school loans, and all of their office staff, they don't make that much, especially in states like California with mostly HMOs. Some docs earn a lot, but those are mostly certain specialists. And everything is dumped on the PCPs.
Any person who works in healthcare, especially those that have been at it for a few years, can tell you exactly why we are demoralized. Healthcare is a factory that produces money. And this piece nailed it. "A big lie" and "Highest compensation and least effective healthcare" sums it all up.
Most of our systems are collapsing... we are in decline. It's tragic.
Really it's justice, things haven't been working for a long time. Let's hope things can be made better not worse for humanity.
... and we're gonna re-build it better. We're finally entering the new age of Aquarius. The old age has got to break down ... It's a struggle, but we're gonna make it better - together.
@@violetatcontentboutique7188 Well said. These horrible systems have got to go to make way for something better than we can ever imagine. It's going to be a bumpy ride for a bit but we will get there.
True. Only two nations currently fall in the “decline” category by geopolitical factors: Brazil and the United States
I'm demoralized too, but I'm not a doctor, I'm a well-insured patient. Dealing with the system is so frustrating (and even counterproductive) that I find myself avoiding it. At the moment I'm being hounded to have my annual medicare checkup, and as anyone who's ever had one knows, it's a total waste of everyone's time. No meaningful lab tests, just cookie-cutter questions, another opportunity to record my white-coat-fever blood pressure and current meds incorrectly, and to being talked down to by unmotivated and uninformed support staff. I keep an up-to-date, just-the-facts=ma'am 5-page status and history of my health and meds, but no one is interested in the information in it even though it could save me (and the malpractice folk) from a fatal omission or error. Cleveland Clinic has taken over our local hospital and turned into a corporate exercise in managerial incompetence and destruction of independent physician practices. May The Great Pumpkin save and protect us from Big Medicine and "the system".
Wow, I've had very similar experience. Very well put. It's so scary. I don't even want to go to the doctor anymore. I don't feel it is good for my health, mental or physical. In fact, I fear that it isn't even safe they are so uninvolved and incompetent. Good luck.
Completely agree. There is nothing I despise more than a visit to the doctor. They will not listen, if you express a desire for a certain test, ie; NMR for a better look at your blood , or anything for that matter they refuse, because it's not standard practice, others just don't know what the test is yet .Other doctors rush you through an exam and if you tell them you don't feel well, they just want to medicate you. Most doctors I have encountered have zero interest in exploring why you may be sick or trying to improve your health through other more benign means. I don't hear any mention of the thousands of dollars doctors accept from big pharma for cramming you full of their pills. No denying I have had a very few EXCELLENT doctors, but now that I am 70 and may need really good doctors they are nowhere to be found. I'm to the point that I go to a different doctor for every annual physical, just trying to find one that shows some genuine interest in my health. I can't imagine how people who are ill manage. I know my husband's doctor is just slowly killing him. He brainwashed him into believing type 2 diabetes is incurable, that he can drink diet colas all he wants because they are diet and that as long as he takes all the pills he prescribes he'll be OK. He told him MUST take statin drugs for the rest of his life. I also found the names of all the doctors in his practice on the list of doctors that get kickbacks from big pharma. They're not even ashamed that they are on those public lists. Sorry but I don't feel all that sorry for doctors.
@@Cocora22 Hi! Wow, I feel so bad for you and I totally understand. I recently came across a funny very informative channel on youtube call "Talking with docs" It has great info on all kind of stuff including diabetes. The doctors hosting really seem to care. Not the same thing as going in in person but it's something. I hope your husband can be informed that he can do something about his diabetes with lifestyle changes. Yes, it's really scary as you get older and if you are ill esp. to not have a doctor you can trust or count on. good luck.
This is so true. Disgusted with how patients are being treated by sometimes incredibly ignorant doctors who just blindly go along with the party line
Cleveland clinic saved people in my family. The doctors in the area we lived could not give us good alternative care, Cleveland clinic can’t even see people from our area now because private insurance won’t cover Cleveland Clinic second opinion. Don’t talk Cleveland Clinic lies.
I am a physician, license 50 years and 10 years ago when the insurance CEO called me up and told me I was forbidden to help people, I was only allowed to drug them… I told him he could go to hell because I earned the right to practice medicine and he never earned the right to bully me. I have been in practice since but I do not take any insurance and I’m much happier! Bio resonance cures people so as physicians we should all do everything possible to get people away from insurance!
I can't help but sympathize. But my sympathy also goes to all those who can't afford your services out of pocket.
We have a dentist like you in our tiny town of Tehachapi, CA, and God Knows I wish I could afford to see him. He would have saved my upper teeth by re-building my jawbone around them. ... Of course that kind of care is nor covered with any kind of insurance. :(
Glad to hear your response. Personally, I've had so many successful outcomes using Homeopathy and Acupuncture, I've had no use for Allopathic medicine. But it is very useful for trauma care and surgery when needed.
naturopaths have been a great addition to my health team they are much better dealing with chronic conditions than big pharma I got rid of the need to for repeat out patient surgical treatments with inexepensive suppements half a teaspoon of a powder and a lozenge daily solved my problem and no more surgeries. amazing.
Thank you for telling them to go to hell 😂greedy bastards
I was blocked from 3 important tests, including an MRI, by insurance.
As long as our health system is pay up or die, this is going to get worse and worse. Health care- whether you live or die- should never, ever, be subject to market forces, bean counters and someone's profit margins.
We have the worst health outcomes and the most expensive health care on earth. We need Universal health care- as they have in every other advanced nation on earth.
I have 2 friends who are married and both physicians who went to New Zealand about 10 years ago on an exchange program with doctors there.
After this experience, they sold their home here in the states and are working there quite happily. They told us that they are actually practicing the kind of medicine they trained for without the insurance companies interfering.
great that they found a solution but New Zealand went full bonkers covid Nazis with the shots. hard to escape tyranny just traded it for another variety
Yeah. New Zealand has great human rights. Not. Remember cops beating people for not wearing masks outside? Yes. They are so progressive and righteous.
Wow amazing
Without the Wall Street interference...Its pretty horrible that our healthcare system is the most expensive in the world, does not cover 20% of the people and has stupid outcomes...
My brother was a family practice doctor all his career in small rural clinics in West Virginia. He intentionally went there to help the coal miners and their families. (We were born and raised in the steel mill ( area of West Virginia - higher incomes and financial security.) He had continual rants about the insurance companies and the last 'manage/director' he worked under. She had NO medical background and put alarms on the exam rooms to tell doctors that their 15 minutes with a patient was up, which he ignored. It got so bad that when he had symptoms of a heart attack, he ignored them because dying from the heart attack was the only way he knew to get out of the messed up system. He was 60 years old. That was in 2009, and as his younger sister, I miss him every day. He was the one who got me interested in science as a child, and he helped proofread my doctor
doctoral dissertation in science and adult education. Her wouldn't eat lunch (was diabetic) because he needed to write up his patient notes during that time. As for pay, I was making the same $78,000 as he was. Many doctors are over worked, under paid and under appreciated by medical management.
Shocking to hear this.
@Saskia Visser unfortunately most people only hear about the brain surgeons or cosmetic surgeons or celebrity doctors, not the regular family doctors. Yes, some them them make good money, but out of their pay comes staff wages, supplies, rent, and medical insurance, which is outrageous. People asked me why I didn't become a doctor. I tell them that I heard all his stories about med school and residency and decided it wasn't my path, and I wouldn't have put up with the nonsense he did.
Here in Canada, physicians from non European countries have been sexually assaulting and fake billing the government.
Not all universal health care systems are free from abuse.
@@FaithPetrov there will be "bad apples " no matter which profession you talk about. Some people are "just not wired correctly" and will take advantage of people and rules.
That’s why you don’t become a dr for the money
I Love this Doctor! I worked in the medical profession for years and he is telling the honest truth!
I am a public health/preventive medicine doctor who worked at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The speaker is absolutely correct.
I am an RN (retired). I am glad that I have the knowledge to advocate and navigate for myself and family when we need the system. I left morally injured and still am recovering from the stress of the job. I hope I have helped a few patients along the way.
I hear you..still doing it for 36 1/2 years now
I’m a new nurse (almost 5 years this December) and if I could do something else I would. It’s awful! I worked covid for two years and still struggling.
Amen. I retired after 30 years, when I was threatened with termination, because I refused the Jab. I was a remote worker with no patient contact, so there was no need to get it.
I haven't worked for a year, due to the toll that the stress, has taken on me. I am just getting to the point, where I feel that I can return to work force. However, I have let my license expire, and am a looking for a job outside of the healthcare system.
Totally agree. All patients need an advocate who understands “ the system”. As a retired RN who has had some serious illness in recent years I am only here today because I had a good advocate by my side. Cause I was too sick to keep track of it all. I have acted as an advocate for many family members and friends over the years. But NOW it is even more important!! And do not get me started on insurance companies and hospital CEO’s.
I'm a Physician, and I dropped down to a PA .....cardiology post op care. I have weekends off make less money and spend much time away from the Hospital 5 more years to retire...It was a great move for me....
So true. As an American who has lived in Hungary for 23 years and has 5 kids I can honestly say that even in a middle income country like Hungary the universal health care system is far preferable to the American for profit system. It is far, far less bureaucratic and more efficient and fairer. It’s been great for my kids as well.
Agreed; I lived with my family in the UK for a while, was impressed with how the NHS cares for everyone. NO "Insurance" companies, No malpractice lawsuits, NO sky-high drug prices, just a patient centered system.
The Dr right I'm a retired nurse we need more teaching g and practice more on preventive medical care
I lived briefly in US for work and honestly could not wait to leave. It's such a soulless place.
@@DGill48 sounds like a dream a fairytale. If only we had that here in the so called greatest country in the world. NOT.
1000$ a month insurance ..bloodsuckers?
This is completely accurate. I’ve been an ICU and ED registered nurse for nearly 40 yrs. I can’t get out of healthcare fast enough. Hospital CEOs and board of directors are getting rich off of the sick. COVID most definitely added to this already horrible situation. My hospital absolutely profited from the pandemic. Federal money did not assist the individuals whom deliver care, nor did it ultimately benefit patient’s. MDs and nurses need to come together to fight for patient’s…and themselves.
I agree 100
When I was in the hospital last year, one if my nurses was the best. She was probably in her 60’s, very patient and calm. She always had a smile on her face. I was always so glad to see her!
100% correct! That's why I left nursing in September of 2021, and I'm not looking back 😊 My life is better now, and it's hard to feel bad for those who didn't stand up with the few of us. They sold out humanity for money. Two certain medications would've saved thousands, if not millions, of lives, but doctors couldn't prescribe it and pharmacies weren't allowed to fill those particular scripts. I'm not going to live with blood on my hands. Those people were pretty much quietly murd€red. And God help anyone who did the hokey pokey. I'll NEVER do the hokey pokey! It's the hill I will die on if need be!
Resident and Fellow doctors do a lot of work in hospital and earn a little money (approx $3-4000 after tax), specially in the Northeast states which have the highest income tax burdens. The young doctors spend 50% or more of their income on housing near the hospitals. The hospitals did not provide them housing assistance. The riches are the hospital CEO, board members and financial advisors etc.
I work in a hospital in SC and let me tell you it’s so terrible it’s a shame I really feel bad for these patients that come in and have to be seen sometimes the wait time is eleven hours 🥺
Universal Healthcare Is Needed In America.
It's very inspiring to hear this intelligent, articulate doctor. His message is very important. It's also refreshing to hear someone express himself clearly and coherently without dropping "sort-of" and "kind-of" into every other sentence (really ... not once). Great talk all the way around; I'll be looking for more of his presentations.
The for profit healthcare system in the US is repulsively unethical. Love this guy, am sure a lot of doctors feel this way.
Yes, I am sure a large number of doctors feel and are experiencing this way. Healthcare is a sham-scam.
Most hospitals in the US are not-for-profit though.
@@cisium1184 The so-called "not-for-profit" hospital system is part of the problem and even though they are called "not-for-profit," they make loads of money (usually from taxpayer dollars) which is then funneled to administrators, pharmaceutical companies, and insurance companies. Medical professionals are usually left out of the loop and certainly, patients are left out and genuine healthcare is the least of their considerations. "Profits over people", should be the motto of the US healthcare system.
You would not want to live in a government controlled health System. Ask those who have lived in developing countries.
And people living in countries with socialized medicine come to the US for care if they have a lot of money .
Why is this ?
I called my doctor's office to be seen for an infection in a wound.
I couldn't get in for 4 weeks.
I ended up in ER before I could even get to the doctor. ER gave me meds and sent me away. The antibiotics didn't work, and the infection got worse. Still, my family doctor couldn't get me in.
Long story short, after trying to get into my doctor's office for a simple infection, I ended up being hospitalized for IV antibiotics.
I have health insurance. I have money. I'm completely done with the medical care system.
Antibiotics is all your doctor was going to do too.
@RichardsLadder I couldn't even get in to get the antibiotics. I couldn't get in anywhere for a month. Infections don't wait a month. They get really bad really fast. I guess doctors don't give a fuck.
Make sure you restore your gut biome. Antibiotics really mess that up. Probiotic foods.
How did a doctor prescribe meds without you being seen by a doctor?
Listerine gold is an incredible disinfectant for wounds. With all the data in the world available at our fingertips-start learning to have faith in your abilities to treat your own wounds and other medical problems. Did a search for 'holistic wound infection treatments' and came up with many sources. Medicalnewstoday site was very educational including 'when to seek a doctor'. People have got to go back to the days of the 50s parents who had great medical books so they could treat their families and diagnose pretty accurately. Have some curiosity and faith in yourself and body that you CAN heal yourself.
My Health care mandated the shot for all employees, they have been short staffed ever since.
I worked as a nurses aid for 5 years following high school graduation. The next 25 years I worked in a hospital as a Cardio-Pulmonary Tech. I liked my co-workers, I loved the patients, I HATED my job. What was once an environment of "Caring for the sick", became an environment of numbers/ number of patients=$$$$$. During those 30 years, the hospital where I worked, eliminated the Pediatrics floor, closed the OB/nursery dept, drasticly reduced the Intensive Care unit, cut back on surgery procedures, and .................emphasized out-pt procedures.
As a patient, an outsider, my care is reduced to "MY Chart", I haven't seen a DOCTOR in ages, and as a nearest relative to my 80 something yr old aunt who lives in an assisted living facility, she's lucky to see a PA maybe once a year. Her "care " is provided by "MY Chart". This is for a person with excellent insurance coverage, and the means to pay for medical care..........................What's WRONG with this picture? I hear this doctor/I read him loud and clear.
I too am a nurse and I’ve seen huge changes in just the past 15 years. Our hospital closed a pedi unit, staff to pt. Ratios are too high to ever be safe, Drs. Face problems without a prior for “ too many” MRIs, then COVID hit and I decided to go into cosmetic nursing. It was always a stressful field but not as stressful and dangerous. I agree something has to change. In one hospital near me literally everyone on staff is a traveling nurse or MD. There is no accountability. I loved patient care but something has to change.
"The Trickery of Usury ((RIBA)) is the Misery of Slavery... it's why Lady Liberty 🗽 has chains on her feet!" -
Why are student loans not permitted to be included in a bankruptcy?
Prophet Mohammad pbuh prophecied that a huge sign of the End Time's will be when the satanic system of RIBA will have engulfed the World and if anyone wanted to avoid it they will have even touched it's dust....
May ALLAH اللة ✨ protect us ALL!
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Pharmaceutical drugs I had been given are deadly. Even eye pressure drops combigan made me faint, pass out to where I crashed my car. Gabapenten makes you stupid, Lexapro causes glaucoma attacks, steroids bleeding lip, and so many more deadly side effects. Don't do it! I don't believe in vaccines, thank God! I ended up with a potassium deficiency. I am now treating me for this. Doctors don't know about potassium deficiency. Now, all those drugs I didn't need that kill. Even the dentist doesn't know how potassium causes gum receding and bleeding gums, more! I can't drive now. I was told if I didn't take the blinding Lexapro the doctor wouldn't see me anymore. Threatening. The doctor now who I like asked me if I took the vaccine? I said no I don't want to die.
I’m a retired educated business owner. If I have a medical crisis at 69 I’ll be bankrupt. Every good dr I've had has been driven out of their practices and must charge 150. Private pay to belong to their practice and continue to see them. After losing three jobs Covid and being almost 70, I am treated so differently as a poor person than I was when I was working and paid 500 a month for my health coverage. My family had great health care growing up. My widowed mother didn’t go broke from my dad’s drs bills. The insurance companies purposely turn down coverage if services and drs are only allowed 10 min at best with each patient . My new dr never looked up from her iPad at me ran in ordered tests ran out . That’s not healthcare .
Many doctors have sold out to Private Equity, which is one of the most amoral forces in healthcare.
In many areas sadly PE is the only options for MD employment because PE has completely taken over the entire region health care. Older MD practices will sell out to PE and retire and leave the young docs a shit show and then they all leave soon after. PE are vultures and should be banned from health care... I have heard not much positive from MDs working for PE at all. Its horrid for them.
Not just healthcare, everything they touch.
@@writerconsidered Yes, housing too.
Great interview but we ALL need to fight these disgraceful health insurance companies. Our health is not for profit!!! This is life and death!!!
I learned the hard way about medicine, and that humans have little to no value unless they have fantastic insurance and lots of money. Exactly what this physician is sharing I had to learn as a patient the hard way, and frankly it taught me as far as they are concerned I have no value, and that was a painful thing to learn. Just to be clear, I only feel that way when seeking medical support, I know I have value outside of medicine. Excellent conversation, one that needs more attention, and I sincerely applaud this physician.
I feel that way too.
There is no "fantastic" insurance in this system. With the exception of Medicare it is all garbage. Even Medicare is in the process of becoming privatized, while President Biden looks the other way. Grotesquely disgusting.
yep.
Since the 1970s, the number of nurses and doctors has remained fairly stable while the number of managers and administrators has grown exponentially. There are people in the equation who do not add to the care of patients but pull from the resources that could go toward patient care.
Thank Obamacare.
These people do not want to work. They want to boss, shadow others, fault find, anything but work and support their colleagues. Totally corrupt.
Exactly! We must stop it
The Controllers which do nothing but control and cause problems.
Don't forget the death panels. Depopulation is real and doctors are not innocent. Patients suffer.
This man is a wonderful human being. Thank you doctor!
Thank you for addressing this problem. The affordable healthcare act is not affordable for many
Thanks doctor for speaking out. Many doctors who speak out are punished by the industry in dreadful ways. They are forced to do things they don’t agree with.
Ethel, does someone have a gun to their heads? Has anyone thought to organize doctors. They are the industry, or should be.
Nurse of 30 years here, experienced same demoralizing control. Doctors, I appreciate all that you do!
The Affordable Care Act has actually become quite unaffordable for many people. One way we can begin to create a more equitable system is to continue to expand Medicaid programs.
Really? The Affordable Care Act is the only reason I can afford health care insurance. By the way, I am NOT subsidized by tax payers. I AM A TAXPAYER, and I pay out-of-pocket for my individual medical insurance.
@@julierogers1155 Then you’re quite fortunate that you can pay the premiums. Many people can’t, even with tax subsidies.
@@jenesoleil3922 My point is that WITHOUT the Affordable Care Act my premiums would become unaffordable for me - not to mention the pre-existing conditions insanity that would follow with the undoing of the ACA.
Insurance companies have simply worked around by creating astronomically high deductibles. This situation is not sustainable. And yet we know damn well we will never have the political will to change it, and even if we did, there're pretty good odds the SCOTUS would kill it.
Many states have the opportunity but their state governments turned it down. In Missouri the people voted to expand it, but their legislature overruled. They hate the poor and non white
I quit nursing in 2022 when the nursing home I worked for was paying a bonus to the admissions director to accept more residents, but we did not have enough nurses and aids to feed, bathe, or care for them. Residents were clinically depressed from the poor conditions. The nursing home made more money per resident and kept staffing low for profit! For profit hospitals and pharmacies all work the system for $$$, not for healthy outcomes. WE NEED UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE!!!
As a former public health doctor I could see the marked difference when the doh switched from free service to charging for services (even if patients didn't have to pay).
I agree that the profit motive for health care is making it impossible to get good health care.
What is doh?
@@writerconsidered department of health
Any profession should be paid according to the level of preparation/studies and dedication ( keeping specialties and licenses take hundreds of hours for the entire career of the physician). And probably is the only profession where the professional DOES NOT set the fee as lawyers do.
@@writerconsidered department of health
Yes. All my doctor friends have quit, sold their practices, or are planning to retire. Some early, some in their 70s and love what they do, but have had enough. I don't blame them one bit. We've destroyed our incredible medical system in the US, and those who claim they can fix it, are the very people that caused this collapse of trust. No wonder physicians are not interested anymore in the BS.
Absolutely true. Those who "claim" they can fix the medical system either know nothing about medicine, don't care about people or have their minds bent toward $$$ only. Put that all together and you have BS on steroids.
my medical record was used by a step sister. The algorithm was using data that was not me. She used narcotics I am allergic to. Almost died because of mistake in anesthesia during surgery, scared the anesthesiologist so much that he came to my room and told me to never use oxycodone again. I told him I have never used oxycontin. He just stood up and left. I did not know about the bad data till 10 years later. I am so desperate for medical care I am considering moving to Mexico. I refuse to follow the governments plan to lower narcotic use. The model assumes I can get drugs illegally. I refuse to shop on the black market. This problem with our medical system is not humorous. It is absolutely insane that Mexico has a more compassionate medical system!.
SO MUCH EASIER to get Cartels pain meds than a script from a Dr so I understand what ur saying. Dont know if 5 ppl I loved committed suicide or bought from Cartel which is so easy. Sad when MRIs prove u have pain & it is not going away. Canada is handling this better than USA.
And more affordable.
I got the best medical care of my 70 years in Mexico. One tenth the cost and they treared me like a human!
Depending on where you live, kratom could be an option for you instead of opioids since it's 1,000 times easier to get.
This doctor is wonderful for speaking out.
Anybody who has accessed the medical system recently knows that it's deteriorated alarmingly in every way. We should all be marching in the streets for reform and removing the insurance industry and the profit motive from health care.
I appreciate this physician so much. I just taught Health Psychology and the system is broken. That we could have saved over 381k people in pandemic, but didn't is tragic. I'm a PhD and college professor and I see trends in educational system that change how we teach and it is worrisome. What I do may not save lives directly, but many of my students go on to become physicians and lawyers who keep people healthy and free.
yes am hearing they are altering the hippocratic oath to water it down and make it more state dictate friendly than individual centered to align with one political party's Communist ideaology
The communists are coming for your job and if you don't kow tow to bizarre equity officer demands, entailing many more hours spent outside of your teaching schedule, to compose monthly or even weekly reports on how you are serving equity and inclusion goals, you will be sacked. They will also force curriculum content changes and learning metrics to ensure that the standards are continually lowered so that your poorest and least promising students can pass your course and if not, you will be blamed. Communism kills. That's what the WEF is bringing. Try to fight it, if you can.
It's more than tragic, Ann Marie, it's murder.
How ? Are you annoyed that drs couldn’t use certain treatments? People turned away ? What hospitals did that ? The government paid. They lied about people dying from covid for the money - spare me
This guy is so well spoken and researched with a clear mission and heart
Yes, I could listen to him a lot more … I hope he gets a platform
I can see why a member of the public took it upon himself to take out the CEO of a medical insurance company. It really had to come to this.
I'm a nurse, but I can see how Insurance Companies harm patients by going against Dr recommended practices and leave Physicians in the lurch when a patient's condition worsens. Not to mention the large health care companies that gobble up Dr like some kind of Medical Mafia. It's so sad that Physicians feel they have to quit, but I certainly understand why.
My HMO made 8 billion in profits last year. SURELY they could operate making 4 billion a year! But instead continue to cheat us out of our care in favor of stock buybacks.
Insurance companies have perfected their game of extracting premiums and denying claims! The Adam Smith invisible hand of the market is touching me inappropriately!
@Tennessee Jed
This whole interview is heartbreaking and anger inducing, but I could keep from laughing out loud at your comment lol. It's quite simply perfect!
@@cherylalt101 Gallows humor is always a hit! We are krill for the Wall Street whales, is another one of my favorites. As well as, the carrot on the string hanging from a stick is made of plastic but the stick is damn real.
@@TennesseeJed You’re a poet and a philosopher lol, fabulous!
@@TennesseeJed Adam Smith was not wrong, but he did not count on was corporatism. Which is NOT capitalism, it's financial cancer, consuming profits with no respect of the host its feeding from.
Listen to this brilliant man he knows what he's talking about
Thank you Dr Reinhart!!!!! Exactly the issues as I see it.
If you think the doctors are demoralized, consider the fact that patients can't get the care they need. it's impossible to get an appointment with a doctor that has on the order of 1,000 patients. We now have medicine by phone call.
One of the primary reasons I left the US.
They wish they only had 1000 pts. In my system primary care docs have 2500 patients
Dentists too. An appointment can take months to get.
I just left a healthcare job of 7 years, that I tried to make work and all of this is true. Please don't forget the PTs, OTs, SLPs who are also being mistreated by for- profit healthcare systems all across the nation. The strategy is to use us up, and replace us in 2 years. Therapists are a critical and over-looked part of the system. When you have a stroke, brain injury, car accident, get stabbed, etc, etc, it is us who get you out of bed, and back home. We have necessary knowledge and skill. We are not human lifting machines. We work till we drop, we are given less and less time, less help, more patients. Recovery from a moderate to severe stroke is NOT 3 weeks; It is 3-6 months. We can do A LOT to improve peoples lives, but our hands are tied as we are being used as tools for profit. We are leaving because we aren't using our skills, people are suffering, we are being asked daily to bill unethically. The problem is not lack of people willing to do this work, it is a lack of people willing be an overworked clog in a system where we CAN'T do our work. Thanks for reading.
Fyi, I heard that DMSO soon after a stroke is lifesaving...
Thank you SO much for all your hard work. Us patients love you so much! 🙋🏻♀️😘❤🤗
As a CNA, I'm right there with you. And even in a no-lift facility, we're lifting constantly. Within a year of starting, I was in an ambulance from bulging disks.
@@dingfeldersmurfalot4560 You have my sympathy, DS. No different than the situation 50 yrs ago. The agony took me to the edge of suicide before a relative w/ connections got me a Boston surgeon who knew my problem before i got in the office door on crutches--one leg hanging useless. Spine damage undiagnosed for almost a year. That leg was dead in the water. Surgeon saved my life. He knew I would be a suicide if not repaired. Gave up being an LPN. Too risky. It startd the day i had to move a humongous patient in the years. before glutonny became a fad and the first lifting machanisms were just getting started in hospitals. In mine, the new lifts were inadequate for the overweight.. Went to college and changed my career.
Pharmaceutical drugs I had been given are deadly. Even eye pressure drops combigan made me faint, pass out to where I crashed my car. Gabapenten makes you stupid, Lexapro causes glaucoma attacks, steroids bleeding lip, and so many more deadly side effects. Don't do it! I don't believe in vaccines, thank God! I ended up with a potassium deficiency. I am now treating me for this. Doctors don't know about potassium deficiency. Now, all those drugs I didn't need that kill. Even the dentist doesn't know how potassium causes gum receding and bleeding gums, more! I can't drive now. I was told if I didn't take the blinding Lexapro the doctor wouldn't see me anymore. Threatening. The doctor now who I like asked me if I took the vaccine? I said no I don't want to die. I had three injections in my need that didn't work. I took a potassium pill. Now everyday I am well. Knee doctor doesn't know that all these seniors may just need potassium. Even my hair stopped falling out.
I realized this 10 years ago and quit working at a nursing home. It was a difficult decision as I loved the residents and thought for a while that I could make some difference in their lives but eventually it was demoralizing.
Same here in Cda and now it has spread to home care.
As a physician working in this system, I can say we’ve lost our power to lawyers, MBAs, administrators, and insurance companies dictating how we oractice medicine & adding more bureaucracy & administrative demands to our already stressful & busy jobs saving lives & trying to improve the quality of lives of our patients. The health care system is broken for so many reasons, but improving documentation time with AI, unionizing, universal healthcare, & investing in preventative/primary care, mental health, and access to care is a good start.
Totally agree. I am a physician and I recently quit. The corporate quest for profit completely took all of the gratification away for me. I realized that I was giving up my own health and well being and no was going to care for the patients or the physicians. It is not all about the money.
Same thing happening in education! People who never set foot in a classroom telling them how to teach.
Thanks for this coverage of a topic that is not being covered in proportion to its importance.
It is the elephant in the room and we're paralyzed in the headlights of the oncoming crisis.
This doctor has experienced this crisis in action. The contradiction between "First; do no harm" and our for profit healthcare system.
The "Do no harm" principle is in direct contradiction to medicine for profit.
Thank you Dr. Reinhardt. One applied anthropologist to another - great work. Take care and keep it up.
I did my Capstone thesis in Healthcare Administration on the history of our healthcare system and it is DARK. In fact, I wanted to drop out of healthcare altogether and did. What Americans don’t know about how their system runs is pretty shocking.
I’m American we don’t have Health CARE - we have Health INSURANCE. They’re 2 completely different things.
Your health Care is a joint effort
I’m a Pediatrician and my only career option because I can impact care and. Health in a meaningful way
YES! That is the truth, health insurance is not healthcare!
Yeah try on Canada and see how that fits!
I don’t have either one nor would I go to a doctor! Sad really! My father went to the doctor for 10 years NOTHING lost his stomach and issue continued. I cured him in 30 Days. Pure BS
We certainly didn't build a socialist medical care system. We choose to die younger and work longer. Nobody is unaware of the choice, we choose not to be socialist.
He is right medical became big business plus as a nurse I saw a huge difference in older nurses and new nurses. Salaries became outrageous more ppl went into nursing for $$$$ rather than to give good care. I’ll get blasted for this insight but it’s there and government has turned nursing into just documenting rather than patient care
Absolutely!! RN of 40 years and now retired. For so many of us it is a vocation and was not about the money. Our raises were often frozen when the hospital was in the red, and never in 40 years did I get a raise more than 2%... maybe 5 or 7 cents! Not even equal to COL.
As a nurse of 37 years , I agree. I feel sorry for anyone needing medical care because I noticed the new nurses lack critical thinking skills and compassion.
I'm old enough to remember that this was an urgent matter in the 1970s. There were Senate hearings about it. I don't have suggestions for how to go about it, but we need an organized, unified rebellion against the corporate overlords. And by "we" I mean medicine people at all levels and patients. There are more of us than there are of them and they can't control us if we don't cooperate. I know it would be difficult because people need their medical care. And I know the CEOs and VPs would single out some people to make an example of them to intimidate all of us. It would be hard. That's why an organized plan is needed, so that we can rally around and support the targeted people. The Civil Rights Movement was hard, too. It's never easy to fight against the kind of power, political and financial, that they wield, and the power they have over our medical care. I don't understand why people are complacent and cooperative about it when it's their medical care. I have a reputation as a difficult patient because for what it's worth, I give them a hard time. This has been left to fester for far too long.
Count me in. I have taken so much trauma from providers I have to take a tranquilizer if I see a doctor. Slander is constant
. They label me. They intimidate me. They reinforce what one of them says even if they didn't see the event. They enforce their authority over me. I was denied my medicine when in the hospital because they didn't like my personality. Then when I had a seizure they could not understand what was happening.
Plenty of these people vote GOP. Enough to sink any and all effort. Let that sink in. The last person to have the cojones to create a universal healthcare system was HRC 25 years ago. And look what that got her. And us.
Count me in, the medical industry let me suffer for 12 years with an extremely painful condition IC (holes in the lining of my bladder) because all they would repeatedly test me for we common “female” issues, while continually gaslighting me that it was “depression”. It was finally considered by my ob/gyn and had to be diagnosed by taking pictures inside my bladder. My bladder lining was completely covered in “sores” and urine leaked into surrounding tissues for twelve years! I almost let my appendix burst during that 12 years because I was so used to being in that much pain and being disregarded by medical professionals. Now I’ve been struggling with Long CoVid for 3 years (myocarditis, white matter demyelination, inflamed spinal cord, POTS, syncope, lung nodules, all these MRI’s and different specialists and no care plan no protocols to follow , just test after expensive test. I did my own research and I am following the FLCCC treatment protocols and slowly gaining my life back.
@@greenthumb8266 So sorry to hear of all your suffering. Until there is change we must do what we can to understand our bodies and keep them healthy. A lot can be accomplished with healthy diet (real food) and exercise.
Totally agree! My mother died in 2016 at the age of 93. During the last 10 years of her life, she often told us to not get sick because "medicine is in the dumpster". The whole system is set up to make money, not to care for people.
When I was a young RN in the late 1970s Residents would stay at the hospital for 72 hour shifts. They had sleep rooms and we'd do our best not to disturb them at nights. By law an RN could also be worked for 48 hours straight back then. I never had to stay that long but worked many 24 hour shifts with no sleep or breaks. That law has changed.
I was a nurse for 40 years and over that time, witnessed the system quickly turn to financial gain instead of proper patient care. Even in private duty care. I saw the insurance companies determining what medicals supplies / equipment they felt were necessary , without ever meeting the clients! And that’s not even the whole of it…! It felt shameful to work in this field, knowing it was almost impossible to give the proper care.
The bad ones are staying I'm noticing : / They're all on anti depressants and when you have a physical problem they'll say 'anxiety' and try to get you a psychotherapist and on pills.
Thanks for having Dr. Reinhart on!
Ms. Martin and Amanpour are the best.
This is one of the best interviews regarding the US "health care" system I've yet seen. I currently have the benefit of living in my other home country of Costa Rica. This after basically been bankrupted by my late husband's chronic illness within the US system. Costa Rica is a little Central American country but it has had universal care for decades. Covid did not wipe us out, and our health care workers were overwhelmed for a very short period of time. The country worked 24/7 for 2 months before Covid arrived preparing dedicated hospital floors and spaces in anticipation of patients. Not only did the country charter a jet to bring in sufficient PP supplies at the onset, they brought in the equipment needed to produce things like masks to ensure supply chains. We never ran out of these supplies or any food (or toilet paper!). If a small, poorer democratic country like Costa Rica can do right by its people, the US should be able to. FYI, I am a certified holistic care giver who long ago recognized the severely compromised corrupt US health care system. I agree 100% with everything Dr. Reinhart is saying. The problems are widespread and virtually nothing about the US system is meant to improve health and well-being. Thank you for this validation of problems few are willing to speak out about.
My preferred hospital for treatment is in SE Asia. It's a privately owned hospital. Total costs (without insurance) are comparable to the cost of maintaining my car. I don't need insurance. Quality is outstanding. This fact should help guide us in revamping our own system in the USA. So long as we don't address this discrepancy, we will never fix our system. The media and our government studiously avoid mentioning anything about these glaring cost discrepancies. Amanpour tries to inject race issues. Utterly laughable.
I have been an RN since 2008. Worked as a traveler nurse and worked in many many hospitals across the country...I can't wait to retire...or change professions. In America Healthcare is a business not a human right...extremely complicated. .thank you Doctor for speaking up
I am an American who was in the French system of healthcare for 10 years from 1990 to 2000.
One day, I called the clinic nearby to schedule my annual (and first one in Paris) breast exam. They said why schedule? Come down this afternoon! I was flabbergasted! I didn't know what to do since I always had to wait weeks in advance for this!
I arrived a day or so later at the clinic - one I could have easily walked to. There I received a manual exam by two different doctors, an ultra sound and x-rays. Six radiologist were sitting in the room next to the exam room. The door was open and I watched them for awhile. Wow! 6 different radiologists studying my film!
I waited in the waiting room for a short time for my results and was handed a beautiful folder with a letter explaining what the x-ray showed, my x-ray films (in case I wanted to take them with me to another clinic in the future) and my ultra sound pictures and all of the information about where they were taken. They said, "They're yours - take them!!!
I cried on the bus on the way home because I had never seen my breast exam x-rays or ultra sounds. I called my sister and she too was flabbergasted by my recounting the experience.
After returning to the States and going for my annual exam, I asked the doctor why they didn't do an ultra sound. He said where did you get that idea, that's only in special cases. I said, "It was part of my annual exam when I lived in France."
He said, "Oh, they have too many doctors there!"
My French exam cost me almost nothing.
So why on earth would you come back to this god forsaken hellhole? If I lived in Europe I would never come back here.
Viva France!
US healthcare is barbaric.
France's health care is universal
Thom Hartmann explained this: The AMA (Cerberus for the insurance companies) have instructed med schools NOT to issue enough licenses to satisfy need to keep doctors' salaries bloated. Med schools are almost unaffordable unless you're born rich. Doctors have clinics that double and triple dip the system much like hospitals for testing (Sam Seder learned this when he began getting colonoscopies because cancer runs in his family). This serves only shareholders, CEOs, and the GOP.
I am amazed that medical doctors are working 120 hours a week!! This is insane and cant be good for them, difficult to believe it serves their patients. Thank you Dr. Rhinehart for this courageous interview. We cannot have change to our horrifying system unless more people like you are brave enough to speak out.
I do not believe this BS of 120 hrs a week, which means 20 hrs a day 6 days a week.
I calculated it as 17 hours a day, 7 days a week. 7 hours for sleep. Can be done. If you're in the middle of a COVID-19 epidemic, and every additional hour is another life saved, it would be worth it.
"A doctor must work 18 hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession." -- Dr. Martin H. Fischer, University of Cincinnati, professor of physiology 1910-1950
Sure sounds like the American Health Care System is totally "Broken" reading these replies. Eggs scrambled. Need a National Commission including 33% non medical "Customers" on that Commission to work for a year to come up with a plan on putting back together again - including demanding 1st Choice; Natural Remedies, like Chinese Herbal Medicines and just BANKRUPT Big Pharma. Has to start at Medical School, where Doctors are taught to be Naturalist Doctors 1st, and BAN anyone attached to Big Pharma from even entering their campus's. USA is still probably no. 1 in "Diagnostic Medical Tools and Technology", and very high up there in the Rehab Therapies. but almost DEAD LAST in Medical Treatment Delivery!
@@ABCABC-hd8iq My bro, residents usually work 100-120 hours a week, even though 80 hours is the legal limit. They do this by stretching out the days they work really long.
All the doctor’s offices around where I live are open 4 days per week. Where are they getting this 80-120 hour baloney?
As I approach the end of my career in the trenches of the emergency room after giving up on primary care, I can only gasp… “The horror… the… horror…”
I bumped into this video in a stream of videos about the recent shooting of the United Health CEO. I realized how this video from a year ago, is still, unfortunately, so relevant today December 2024.