I have employer provided health insurance. I'm an immigrant from India and routinely postpone non urgent care to my annual trips there. One does need pointers to good clinics. I get great care at low cost. With none of the bureaucracy and arrogance I see in my adopted country unfortunately. When I get my additional blood tests, I never have the blue bruise that I usually get here at Quest or LabCorp. This year I'm going to get a wisdom tooth extracted. My amazing family doctor answers questions on Whatsapp for a very nominal fee.
Healthcare in the United States is broken. Avaricious profit mentality from all the players broke it. We need to vote for leaders who are not on the payroll of these players, to fix this very serious problem. I don't have much hope. Even educated people as on HN keep quoting the same tired capitalist propaganda.
oulu2006 · 1h ago
The rest of the world just shakes its head at the US healthcare system.
Powerful forces keep it as it is -- and people seem to buy the stupid communism/socialist crap that they pedal and soak it up hook line and sinker.
Gave up trying to understand why.
lisbbb · 10m ago
This is a facile approach to making an argument against US Healthcare--far too simplistic, imho. There are plenty of nations with socialism/communism where healthcare is either non-existent or impossible to get because of rationing. So it's not like that's some terribly invalid argument. Further, even with the more "civilized" Western nations, the cracks in those socialized systems are showing--the UK, Canada, and others. Finally, the countries with the allegedly great healthcare are pretty small compared to the USA. I can't speak for India, of course, but I kind of think that a nation that lacks flush toilets for a large percentage of its population would also be suspect in terms of broad applicability around what was stated. In simpler terms: If you're wealthy, you can get great healthcare almost anywhere. The US has its lumps, but there is no waiting for necessary treatments and while insurance is expensive, so is healthcare.
I guess I'm also happy that our government doesn't run it because just regulating it as much as has been done has led to what we experience today. Is greedy profiteering built in to the system? Undoubtably. But there are serious risks to reforming such a complex system.
Healthcare in the United States is broken. Avaricious profit mentality from all the players broke it. We need to vote for leaders who are not on the payroll of these players, to fix this very serious problem. I don't have much hope. Even educated people as on HN keep quoting the same tired capitalist propaganda.
Powerful forces keep it as it is -- and people seem to buy the stupid communism/socialist crap that they pedal and soak it up hook line and sinker.
Gave up trying to understand why.
I guess I'm also happy that our government doesn't run it because just regulating it as much as has been done has led to what we experience today. Is greedy profiteering built in to the system? Undoubtably. But there are serious risks to reforming such a complex system.