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Originally Posted by TampaToker
There is no fix for heathcare. Government should stay out of it. Ask any nurse case manager that works for any heathcare provider will tell you this "you cant fix stupid". People who have diabetes still eat sugar while not taking the insulin or blood readings daily. People who have psychosis of the liver who continue to drink. People who are morbidly obese continue to eat like shit. People who have opcd continue to smoke. I could go on but by now i am sure you get the picture.
With that being said we know heathcare company's are for profit. A insurance can not drop a patient even if they continue there bad choices which makes no frigging sense. Do not get me wrong this is only a small portion 15%-20% of each clinic that has these types of patients but that small percentage cost the insurance millions per year per clinic. So when insurance company's are not making enough profit rates go up.
Now they wanna do medicare for all no way in hell!
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At some point I think we as a country will have to ask ourselves a big question. Is having access to affordable (or in some cases free) healthcare a basic right all citizens of the US should have (like it is in most industrialized nations) or should it only be available to those who can afford it?
I think we are moving more and more towards the side of the former. No matter which way we go, it's not going to be pretty, but there needs to be a major overhaul of the system or it is going to collapse. Medicare for all seems like the solution that is the easiest now, but if we don't do things to curb the actual cost of the healthcare it won't matter because it will become a system of choosing which way you want to go broke.
yes, there are people who abuse themselves and don't care. We can't fix them or change that. We need to understand that is part of the equation and try to make a system that works for as many people as possible.