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Originally Posted by tenniels
I'm just wondering seretogis why you seem so angry at the fact that some people are unhappy with the state of healthcare? Is it because you work in the field? I don't know an awful lot about the American healthcare system, so I can't really comment. I just know that when people complain, you can't take it personally, it's not you (the worker) that people complain about, it's generally the system as a whole.
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I dislike the generalizations and unsupported statements about the healthcare system which are thrown around as if they were fact. The doctors, nurses, and pharmacists I work with put forth a massive amount of time and effort to try to make clinical encounters efficient (some more than others.) There is also a lot of work going on behind the scenes by both clinicians and non-MDs like me which many people don't see and therefore can't appreciate. There is certainly room for improvement in terms of doctor-patient efficiency, but on the whole it is not a bad system if you make the effort to care and become informed about your own healthcare.
I dislike the assumption "oh yeah the US healthcare system sucks" which is backed up largely by "oh Michael Moore made a movie about it." This phenomenon occurred after his other movies, and was equally as flimsy then. The OP who stated how
terrible our healthcare system is still hasn't answered my simple question of "why?" so I don't think that I am very far from the mark when I assume that such a statement as that made in the OP was made out of angst, not reason.
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Originally Posted by willravel
It surprises me how rude people can be sometimes. We have a thread about Sicko that you're more than welcome to post in. Lashing out at someone because they're sharing their experience with horrible circumstance and inadequate health care isn't an open invitation to start a political bash contest. This is General Discussion, not Politics.
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I am not interested in discussing Sicko in particular. I asked "why?" and was not answered, so I countered with an assumption of my own that the lack of reason was due to the "terrible" statement in the OP being made as emotional hyperbole.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Maybe you can share with us all the experience you've had with the health care industry. Can you, as a self described worker in the health care industry, explain why I wasn't give the second coarctation of the aorta repair surgery because it wasn't cost effective, and now I have severe, detrimental health effects that make my regular exercising a tightrope walk between staying healthy and having my aorta pop out into my chest like a garden hose? Explain to me why Kaiser, a non-profit, decided that they'd rather pad the upper management's pockets instead of opening me up and fixing me, while I pay exorbitant costs for me medical insurance.
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Who decided it was not cost-effective? A doctor you saw, your insurance company, the company you work for?