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No offense, but US healthcare was collapsing even before the current acceleration of it. It was and is a for-profit driven enterprise mainly drained by worthless insurance companies.
Don’t forget the venture capitalist factor. Your doctor’s office and your PCP are different, more rushed, now because of venture capitalists.
They’ve hoovered up many clinics and now force each doctor employed by those clinics to book themselves like an airport. No more free slots. Regimented 15min time slots, back to back. Anyone late to an appointment loses their slot and may even have to pay a “no show”/late fee. None of these decisions were made by front lines workers, they were all made by corporate owners of those clinics.
Outcome? People don’t get heard. Don’t address all their issues (they’re allowed one issue per visit, for max profit, in addition to there only being time for one issue during those tiny appointments). They hate their PCPs (instead of corporate) and instead flood Urgent Care and the Emergency Department for PCP problems neither UC or ED will solve. Thus, everyone gets sicker.
Yep. And it was all the rural dipshits that voted for exactly this: bootstrap capitalism. If you can't afford to pay through the nose for medical care, then in this America, you don't deserve to get medical care.
They voted for this. They are in full agreement with it. When the hospitals close, they should be happy and if they aren't - they can go fuck themselves.