America's healthcare system sucks. (premium, Miami, companies, dollars)

[bale002]

This won't happen, but it might be useful if people distinguished between health care, and the financing of it.

Actual health care in the US appears to be quite innovative and cutting-edge.

Problem appears to be how access to it is regulated and financed.


To start with, the open price mechanism is almost nowhere to be seen. In fact, industry lobbyists and their minions in the various legislatures are fiercely against it.

If we start there, then maybe we can reasonably think about subsidies, like a national insurance pool, for those who can't navigate a resource-allocation system based on the price mechanism.

I'm not holding my breath.

But I do try to eat a healthy balanced diet and exercise - in an attempt to avoid altogether this "illness maintenance" system, as vkhmini aptly put it - as grown up a thing that I can possibly do by myself.

Good Luck!

[saltine]

Originally Posted by CastletonSnob1

Grow up? So, I'm just supposed to shut up and deal with a terrible system?

My drug dealer requires i see em every 6 months. Could be worse. Solution is not more of the same though. Tell doc you can only afford 6 mo.visit

[Winter_Sucks]

Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest

It just needs less govt

Yes, that’s the ticket. I bet less government would halt Coronavirus right in its tracks.

[CastletonSnob1]

Also, I got turned down by THREE healthcare companies. I had to sign up for Medicaid to get disability. My mom says I don't really need the money, but only Medicaid would take me.

I heard that if you earn too much, you can lose your disability.

The healthcare system in America is a complete joke.

[antinimby]

But I thought Obama, Pelosi and all the Leftists had promised that Obamacare (ACA) was going fix our healthcare system?

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by CastletonSnob1

Also, I got turned down by THREE healthcare companies. I had to sign up for Medicaid to get disability. My mom says I don't really need the money, but only Medicaid would take me.

I heard that if you earn too much, you can lose your disability.

The healthcare system in America is a complete joke.

Once again, who passed the law you're complaining about?

Let's summarize, the GOVERNMENT passed a law that has you upset, so you are mad at whom?

[CastletonSnob1]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

Once again, who passed the law you're complaining about?

Let's summarize, the GOVERNMENT passed a law that has you upset, so you are mad at whom?

The Texas government, I guess?

[InformedConsent]

Originally Posted by CastletonSnob1

A new law was passed saying that people who take ADHD meds have to visit a doctor every 3 months to get their meds.

Why does the healthcare system make people jump through hoops to get the stuff they need?

Too much Fed Gov interference, à la regulations. And the idiot lefties want even more of the same. You can't fix stupid. /smh

[Bobdreamz]

Originally Posted by antinimby

But I thought Obama, Pelosi and all the Leftists had promised that Obamacare (ACA) was going fix our healthcare system?

It was until the insurance & drug companies got involved.
At least the Dems had a plan.
Where is the Republican healthcare plan to fix ObamaCare?

Crickets

[Frank DeForrest]

Originally Posted by Winter_Sucks

Yes, that’s the ticket. I bet less government would halt Coronavirus right in its tracks.

Halt it? Im not sure what you mean that, but a free market unhindered by the FDA, AMA, insurance lobby and a host of other cartels/govt agencies/lobbies would assuredly provide solutions in a quicker more efficient manner.