Fifty-three percent of respondents hold a “very or somewhat” unfavorable view of the system, while 40 percent hold a “very or somewhat” favorable view.
I swear to God, you could ask “Do you enjoy being hit in the face with a hammer?” in a poll and 30% - 50% of my countrymen would answer “yes”. At least one third of this country lives in a completely different reality.
I get to pay 4k a year, just to be able to be charged only 6k out of pocket. After that 10k, I still would owe 10% of every charge after that.
Or I can pay 2k a year for the privilage of being charged a little over 8k out of pocket. After that, I’d owe 20% of everything after.
So every year, I get to gamble my prospective income on how much healthcare I think I’ll need. I want to save on monthly costs? Hopefully nothing emergent happens. Expecting a procedure? Now I’m out a few extra hundred a month just so I don’t have to pay more than 10% after already paying 6k.
All this is assuming I don’t get denied coverage and have to foot the whole bill anyway. I need to see a specialist, though, and the only one nearby isn’t in my network. I gotta drive an hour and a half or pay 100%.
I’m paying more than the savings I’m able to put away to assholes who own yachts bigger than the house I rent.
I just had an argument with a Canadian guy I work with. He said the us system is better than Canada. He said you have to wait in Canada. I was like in the US you usually have to wait and also pay !
That’s because the American health care system is by and large run as a for-profit enterprise, and that kind of thing as we well know always eventually devolves into a race to the bottom to maximize profits at the expense of everything else until it collapses.
But in this case, “at the expense of everything else” is not churning out lousy hamburgers or making gaming keyboards that break 2 days out of warranty. Rather, people don’t receive competent health care, don’t receive care soon enough, or just don’t receive care at all and in some cases die. All for a buck.
I know that’s not necessarily the correlation the article is trying to make with its survey, but I’ll bet you a nickel it’s the majority of the root cause of the outcome in any case.
I just had employee share in our slack how her kid is turning 18 and wasn’t sure if the child was still covered. The kid has some disorder and work insurance pays for the meds. HR shared that fortunately, insurance covers kids until 26.
But all my brain did was go “Until she gets fired or laid off or something.”
That’s not really true though. My family has excellent insurance, and the whole process of having a kid and all the pediatric visits since have been great (both in terms of care and cost).
That said, our healthcare system sucks at a population level, and I certainly recognize that. But I think recognition that our system works very well for a small part of the population is an important thing to acknowledge.
I certainly “hold an unfavorable view” of the US healthcare system…but that’s not because it doesn’t work for me personally.
And not just from afar. I have non-American friends who live in the US, and it’s quite frightening for someone who grew up with easy and affordable access to healthcare.
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