Is the healthcare system in America bloated?

AI going to shock it

Tell that to my friend on workmans comp who can't get an MRI until April.

Healthcare fraud puts fake Somali daycare fraud to shame.

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Tell that to my friend on workmans comp who can't get an MRI until April.

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I don’t think I’ve ever waited for medical care ever in my life. Not even once. This would be news to me.

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We can only hope. Healthcare is massively bloated and overpaid. We could cut pay 30% and nothing would change m

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If you are talking about folks on the insurance or management side, sure. If you are talking about front line workers, GTF. They should be paid double for having to deal with the people they see on a daily basis

So long as this country uses a fee for service payment system which is currently the most expensive system in the world (In 2023, the U.S. spent $13,432 per person, over $3,700 more than the next highest nation (Switzerland) the U.S. STILL has lower life expectancy and higher rates of chronic diseases compared to peer countries.

In short, yes, it's extremely bloated with services people don't need, don't produce better health outcomes, don't make them any healthier in the short term or long term and it's covering people who don't take care of themselves in the first place. Not only are we completing more services that don't lead to improved health outcomes, the cost for those services that don't work are more expensive than an country in the world.

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In short, yes, it's extremely bloated with services people don't need, don't produce better health outcomes, don't make them any healthier in the short term or long term and it's covering people who don't take care of themselves in the first place. Not only are we completing more services that don't lead to improved health outcomes, the cost for those services that don't work are more expensive than an country in the world

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Most people who don't take care of themselves don't have insurance to begin with and are unable to afford whatever they need done.

Our healthcare system is broken because we do not practice preventive healthcare in this country. People wait until they are sick or have something wrong to start seeing a doctor regularly. By the time symptoms start showing up, you end up getting trapped into the healthcare system.

Part of it is people are lazy and part of it is insurance providers not paying for services until you are sick/meet requirements

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Again, completely false. Every single healthcare insurance carrier in this country provides preventative care at zero cost to the plan member / patient. Many people don't know it, don't know many of their benefits to begin with, don't know what their plan covers in the first place but those preventative measures are absolutely there and covered. People just don't use them enough.

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Try to get a colonoscopy covered before age 40.

Or an EKG done

Or a CT


I can go on and list things you can't just walk in and have done and covered.

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Thats not true at all. Over 80% of the people in this country with at least one chronic condition have healthcar coverage.

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Link to stats?

EKGs and CTs are not preventative and colonoscopies are absolutely covered for people under 40 with a family history, symptoms, genetic syndromes, etc.

Wanting something done without any indications it's needed doesn't make it preventative.

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I can go on and list things you can't just walk in and have done and covered.

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Just because you want something done without a providers orders doesn't make it preventative. Doesn't matter if its Radiation, a mammogram or Xofluza.

They're generally diagnostic, not preventative. An EKG can be preventative for for individuals with high blood pressure, diabetes, or a family history of heart disease. Low-dose CT scans can be preventative and used for early detection of lung nodules in high-risk smokers and assessing plaque build-up in coronary and both ate covered by health insurance carrier when ordered by a a physician.

That being said, they are generally diagnostic and just because you can't walk in and request one that's covered and paid for by someone else doesn't mean they aren't covered.

It's ridiculous to think that healthcare costs in this country would reduce if anyone could just walk into a hospital or outpatient testing facility and request diagnostic tests without seeing a provider who actually ordered a test.