No government Hospital ? No government Pharmacy in USA ?? Why so ??
I came from india form lower middle class family and we always used government hospitals and government pharmacy throughout my family members and we don’t have any medical insurance (most of lower middle class Indians don’t have medical insurance) After earning engineer degree (1st engineer in our family) and some hard work+luck I got a job in Amazon india and came to USA after 9 years. After landing here, I started paying for hell lot of insurances (auto, medical, dental, vision, law, ad & d (even after paying tax for SDI) house, rental insurance etc etc.) Almost 15% of income goes to just paying insurances. When I started researching about medical benefits, I came to know we hardly have any government hospitals like india , no government doctors available, no government pharmacy, no government retirements plans (Like LIC and EPF etc) I was surprised and not sure what developed country like USA which claim best medical facilities doesn’t have easy and simply way to get medical attention (see doctors) or buy prescription medicine from whatever pharmacy you want (show paper prescription and buy medicine) even Ambulance service is so much costly here that I can’t imagine. I am still not sure how to justify developed countries tax usage for common people where we don’t get affordable government medical hospitals. What are your thoughts ?? I have lived in Europe, India and USA and so far most difficult, privatized, expensive and “for cost only” medical services are found in USA. Am I missing anything here ? Most of public (80%) people need basic medical attention which should not this much costly and time consuming, it’s should be simply and sometimes free from government. #insurance #medical #health #usamedical #india #hsa
The only thing worse than the current American healthcare industrial complex is government run healthcare.
I am taking about basic medical needs
Thank government failure and/or corruption for why basic medical is expensive, low quality, and mismanaged to hell. Free market would be almost infinitely better on all dimensions and socialist style would be marginally better in a few areas and exponentially worse on all others that matter even more.
Go to urgent care. Also this is a troll thread
Distrust of the government being involved in health care is much stronger than distrust in for profit companies where you *know* you're gonna get screwed in the us. Just one of those things that confuse immigrants to no end :-)
Do you think corruption only happens in the US? Or do you think only Americans are smart enough to know about corruption and have distrust in govt?
It's probably 10x worse in the us compared to western European countries which is the only point of reference I have .. except we don't call it corruption, just political donations insane drug prices are pretty unique to the us, overhead from insurance companies seems higher as well but for various reasons the VA and Medicare actually *seem* to be pretty cost effective.. and yeah those numbers are skewed based on lower per case costs but it seems possible to have relatively low overhead govt healthcare
The USA is a capitalist cult 🤷🏽♀️
Why do you live here then?
In Europe you pay up to 56% in income taxes for those low cost services you only use a handful of times in your lifetime. And you end up living middle class for the rest of your life because there’s no mobility in jobs in many other parts of the world. Fund your HSA/FSA using pre-tax funds and enjoy the remainder of the money SAVED in your bank account and STFU!
Capitalism. Also learn how to poll better
Your just ignorant. No hospital can refuse service. County hospitals exist. Low income people have access to Medicaid. Most private hospitals and pharmacies take Medicaid.
Welcome to capitalism
American healthcare is a far cry from capitalism. It's cronyism where government ensures the main players get too big to fail, are the only ones who can survive the regulatory onslaught, and snuffs out by lobbying all real competition.