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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The cost of healthcare as well as the misinformation given by the representing political factions has led people to resist medical treatment unless absolutely necessary.
But there are hospitals that are reversing the for profit attitude and replacing it with patients needs as their priority. Some formally for profit hospitals have even teamed up with nonprofit as well as teaching hospitals in order to provide as many options as possible.
So there is change coming but we also need our government as a whole to fix itself before we’ll have the healthcare system that this country needs.
48thRonin
Level 8
Nov 25, 2018
2
This is completely expected. America is the only developed nation where the life span is actually getting shorter despite the ridiculous amount of money being spent on healthcare.
Green_eyes
Level 8
Nov 25, 2018
3
That is not a surprise. The USA is the only industrialized country that does not consider adequate health care to be a basic rand universal right. We simply have too many people who are easily terrorized by the word "socialized" without even attempting to understand facts and principles.
wordywalt
Level 9
Nov 25, 2018
3
Just read this the other day. I am not well today, so trying to rein-in anger. I wasn't surprised.
I know of people, and had a friend who died who wouldn't have if they'd access to proper healthcare. I occasionally worry about Trump and Co. destroying Medicaid and other important parts of the US social safety net.
ailurophile
Level 7
Nov 25, 2018
2
That is my worry as well. I'd like to be able to really retire in the not too distant future, I'm not sure I will have time to financially recover from the current administration. Scary times we live in.
One of my California friends also died needlessly.
@HippieChick58 Indeed. I'm on Medicaid. Despite paying into Social Security most of my working life, I can't collect SSDI because I don't have enough "units", aka I hadn't worked a job outside the home in the last few years.
In terms of healthcare the US has lagged behind other developed countries for a long time. What we do well here is buy in to false premises and flawed ideologies like the ridiculous idea that the unregulated marketplace will always produce the best outcome.
Flyingsaucesir
Level 8
Nov 25, 2018
3
Talked with an English friend today who says that Theresa Mayhem (I laughed when he wrote her name like that) and the Tories are trying to destroy the National Health Service.
@ailurophile
She is playing right into the hands of Vladimir Putin. As is Donald J. Trump.
I'll stay Canadian, thanks.
Lilac-JadeCanada
Level 9
Nov 25, 2018
3
Smart. Too bad about those obnoxious neighbors to the south, though.
@ailurophile Many are coming over the border since whatizface got elected.
@Lilac-Jade So I've heard. If I wasn't ill, and as old as I am, I'd be across the border myself.
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