Can't get coverage for my leg unless I fly back to NY. Fuck this country and its primitive fucking healthcare.
What the hell? Most health insurers will cover emergency treatment (which would include a broken bone) away from home, at least in my experience.
To Empire, "Emergency Treatment" means ER, nothing more. Followup appointment? Fuck you, come back to NY.
It's kind of a workaround, and sucks that our system is setup for this...but what about just going back to the ER with the same/similar complaints for followup?
Can't get coverage for my leg unless I fly back to NY. Fuck this country and its primitive fucking healthcare.
"Primitive" is too generous. In primitive cultures, the medical person (witchdoctor, leecher, whatever) was a highly respected and valued member of the community who would practice their craft when it was needed.
Can't get coverage for my leg unless I fly back to NY. Fuck this country and its primitive fucking healthcare.
"Primitive" is too generous. In primitive cultures, the medical person (witchdoctor, leecher, whatever) was a highly respected and valued member of the community who would practice their craft when it was needed.
Primitive healthcare or crappy health insurance? There is a difference.
Primitive health care or crappy health insurance? There is a difference.
The fact that having crappy health insurance is something we even have to worry about is sufficient proof that we have a primitive health care system, I think. While US medical care can be brilliant, we do a piss-poor job of actually caring for people's health.
Ineffective does not mean the same thing as primitive. A flint knife is primitive, but effective for cutting things. An BPA-free plastic butter knife is not primitive, but it doesn't cut for shit.
The U.S. medical system can be described as Wasteful, Inadequate, and Poorly Managed, but it is not, by any reasonable standard, Primitive.
I got paid a month late and earned markedly less than I expected, with no way to contest it because my boss didn't write down my hours.
Our restaurant supplier sold us lids that don't fit the containers they also sold us, and the cheese vat malfunctioned. If things don't shake out by Friday we will lose $2000 and I probably won't get paid again.
I found out that I can't graduate community college yet. My academic adviser made a mistake and now I have two weeks to see a another counselor to clear my academic warning status (which is also bullshit, because my GPA is well above the warning line) and register for my actual final class.
I was going to see Run the Jewels in Asheville next month but my friend ditched me to go to the beach.
Chemo is only getting harder for my mother.
I've been repeatedly blown off by people I want to spend time with.
Primitive healthcare or crappy health insurance? There is a difference.
The healthcare in this country overall is excellent, if you can get it. The problem is in getting it.
Which roadblock are you encountering that is preventing you from accessing the excellent healthcare? I assumed it was an insurance roadblock.
Insurance is precisely the roadblock. Well, more like the roadblock is the inability to receive it without insurance and/or sufficient wealth to pay for all treatment in cash.
Ineffective does not mean the same thing as primitive. A flint knife is primitive, but effective for cutting things. An BPA-free plastic butter knife is not primitive, but it doesn't cut for shit.
The U.S. medical system can be described as Wasteful, Inadequate, and Poorly Managed, but it is not, by any reasonable standard, Primitive.
Hmm, a flint knife is primitive and effective at cutting things, but is it as effective at cutting things as a state-of-the-art high-tech alloy or ceramic blade? I give you that it is more effective than a modern plastic butter knife, though, but that may not be an apples-to-apples comparison. It's almost like comparing medical care from 30-40 years ago (which was effective for most common cases ranging from broken bones to bacterial infections, even if it's not quite as good as today's care for the most severe injuries and illnesses) to modern new-age faith healing Randi BS.
One may argue that the US healthcare payment system is primitive when compared to our peers. We're still barely out of the "pay for all your care out of your own pocket and FOAD if you can't afford doctors" stage. Insurance helps, but if you can't afford insurance or your insurance refuses to pay for treatment for some reason, you're still not much out of the FOAD situation. Most, if not all, of our industrial peers actually have a healthcare payment system where nobody has to FOAD if they can't afford care. Sure, if you're crazy wealthy, you probably could get a nicer hospital room, maybe even jump the queue a bit for procedures that aren't of urgent medical necessity like cosmetic surgery and such, but nobody will be forced to FOAD if they couldn't afford necessary care.
Speaking of hospitals... Here in CT shit is getting downright bizarre.
Up until this year the state was giving hospitals money because, you know, they are hospitals. These same hospitals have been showing tens of millions of dollars in profits those same years (more than the state funded subsidy). Now the gov is (rightly) saying, "no more subsidy." What is the hospital response?
A. "OK, we didn't really need the subsidy." B. "OMG! You hatez da hospitalz!!!! We goin bankrupture!!! Layoffs are cominz!!!"
If you guessed B you would be correct. Now there is a discussion about the salaries on the administration side and it is being pointed out that those salaries are too high and that those salaries should be cut before the lower paid actual workers lose jobs.
My Congressman, Joe Kennedy, voted against the Amash amendment to defund the NSA's surveillance program. He was the only representative from Massachusetts to do so.
A friend of mine from school passed away yesterday from complications from some swelling in his brain caused by a skateboarding accident. He was only 21 years old. It really puts mortality and the general fragile-ness of the human body into perspective.
My tonsil is super swollen. I can't feel it and wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't happened to catch it in the mirror, but it hasn't gone down in a few days and I'm going to need to get it checked out.
I got a 3 on my AP US History test. I know all my answers were right (I would've cited sources if I could have), so what the fuck were they trying to get me to say?
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How do we do a piss poor job of caring for people's health?
The U.S. medical system can be described as Wasteful, Inadequate, and Poorly Managed, but it is not, by any reasonable standard, Primitive.
Our restaurant supplier sold us lids that don't fit the containers they also sold us, and the cheese vat malfunctioned. If things don't shake out by Friday we will lose $2000 and I probably won't get paid again.
I found out that I can't graduate community college yet. My academic adviser made a mistake and now I have two weeks to see a another counselor to clear my academic warning status (which is also bullshit, because my GPA is well above the warning line) and register for my actual final class.
I was going to see Run the Jewels in Asheville next month but my friend ditched me to go to the beach.
Chemo is only getting harder for my mother.
I've been repeatedly blown off by people I want to spend time with.
I still can't drive anywhere.
Fuck this shit.
One may argue that the US healthcare payment system is primitive when compared to our peers. We're still barely out of the "pay for all your care out of your own pocket and FOAD if you can't afford doctors" stage. Insurance helps, but if you can't afford insurance or your insurance refuses to pay for treatment for some reason, you're still not much out of the FOAD situation. Most, if not all, of our industrial peers actually have a healthcare payment system where nobody has to FOAD if they can't afford care. Sure, if you're crazy wealthy, you probably could get a nicer hospital room, maybe even jump the queue a bit for procedures that aren't of urgent medical necessity like cosmetic surgery and such, but nobody will be forced to FOAD if they couldn't afford necessary care.
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Up until this year the state was giving hospitals money because, you know, they are hospitals. These same hospitals have been showing tens of millions of dollars in profits those same years (more than the state funded subsidy). Now the gov is (rightly) saying, "no more subsidy." What is the hospital response?
A. "OK, we didn't really need the subsidy."
B. "OMG! You hatez da hospitalz!!!! We goin bankrupture!!! Layoffs are cominz!!!"
If you guessed B you would be correct. Now there is a discussion about the salaries on the administration side and it is being pointed out that those salaries are too high and that those salaries should be cut before the lower paid actual workers lose jobs.
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