I know right! It is absolutely disgusting. Americans are so stupid to want this. This country does not care about health, we are probably the fattest country. I also think the stories claiming that people lose their houses or have hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills are propaganda, sure some might be true but it is blown out of proportion. There are 31 million uninsured in America. Some of those people are homeless, some are mentally ill. I had a patient who is mentally ill that qualifies for Medicaid but they chose not to sign up for it and they would have never come to the doctor if they didn't break their hip, they also won't sign themselves up for a doctors appointment even if there was socialized medicine. I also have patients who chose not to have insurance. One patient and his wife have the option to get insurance at work and they elected not to because they think they are young and don't need it. They may have changed their minds after they had to pay for wrist surgery after a snowboarding accident. Anyways so another population of that 31 million has to be people who chose not to get it. One of my patients has pretty decent insurance and she is a cashier at McDonald's. I think the people who get stuck with these "bills" probably put themselves in that situation or they just want to live off the government. Those people aren't worth destroying the system for.
One of my dad's friends from hockey came here to play in the NHL and then went back to Canada after his career. He wanted to get his hip replaced but in Canada, he didn't want to wait 8 months because if you wait that long for a hip replacement when you are at end-stage osteoarthritis you will get herniated discs in your back and end up needing back surgery. So he came to the US and paid for it out of pocket because he had enough money from playing in the NHL. There are plenty of people from Canada that also come here for heart surgeries and pay full price because they will die if they wait 6 months in Canada.
My dad had an extended stay in the hospital a few years ago like a solid month and a half. He had to pay maybe a couple of hundred dollars of his $150K bill because he had great insurance because he had a very great job. I have literally always seen having great insurance as one of the many incentives to get a great job. This world is backwards and dangerous.
Ugh Hearing those horrible stories makes me sick!
I know right! It is absolutely disgusting. Americans are so stupid to want this. This country does not care about health, we are probably the fattest country. I also think the stories claiming that people lose their houses or have hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical bills are propaganda, sure some might be true but it is blown out of proportion. There are 31 million uninsured in America. Some of those people are homeless, some are mentally ill. I had a patient who is mentally ill that qualifies for Medicaid but they chose not to sign up for it and they would have never come to the doctor if they didn't break their hip, they also won't sign themselves up for a doctors appointment even if there was socialized medicine. I also have patients who chose not to have insurance. One patient and his wife have the option to get insurance at work and they elected not to because they think they are young and don't need it. They may have changed their minds after they had to pay for wrist surgery after a snowboarding accident. Anyways so another population of that 31 million has to be people who chose not to get it. One of my patients has pretty decent insurance and she is a cashier at McDonald's. I think the people who get stuck with these "bills" probably put themselves in that situation or they just want to live off the government. Those people aren't worth destroying the system for.
One of my dad's friends from hockey came here to play in the NHL and then went back to Canada after his career. He wanted to get his hip replaced but in Canada, he didn't want to wait 8 months because if you wait that long for a hip replacement when you are at end-stage osteoarthritis you will get herniated discs in your back and end up needing back surgery. So he came to the US and paid for it out of pocket because he had enough money from playing in the NHL. There are plenty of people from Canada that also come here for heart surgeries and pay full price because they will die if they wait 6 months in Canada.
My dad had an extended stay in the hospital a few years ago like a solid month and a half. He had to pay maybe a couple of hundred dollars of his $150K bill because he had great insurance because he had a very great job. I have literally always seen having great insurance as one of the many incentives to get a great job. This world is backwards and dangerous.