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The US system is almost an adversarial relationship. Patients want proper healthcare and they want all the tests, time, etc it takes to figure out what's really wrong or to prevent problems from getting worse or even happening in the first place, but doctors are given kickbacks from the HMO's for running fewer expensive tests and keeping costs down and have other quotas to maintain.
And you know when you go in the absolute first thing they always ask is "do you have insurance?". If you say no, you start to wonder if you're moved to the bottom of the list. Get him in and get him out, he can't pay for this.
The referral system is crap. They don't have the best doctors available...they have the ones that agreed to the lowest rates and perform the fewest expensive tests.
wtf kind of system is that?
I love the US, and regardless of what anyone says I think it's a great country to live in, but our healthcare system is pathetic.
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