re: Is the healthcare system in America bloated?

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they learn all electronic stuff & how to use computers. Most of this is how to treat symptoms and not actually how to heal a person

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What are you talking about?

Young physicians are much better trained to not just throw medicine at a patient

Look at the rate at which they prescribe statins in such compared to older doctors

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no - my problem is they treat symptoms, not cure They’re too busy learning systems instead of healthcare

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You can’t be more wrong

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Subsidizing their insurance would just be robbing Peter to pay Paul. Costs would be moved from healthcare to taxes.

This is what people who want a single payer system don’t understand. Sure you can have “free” healthcare, your taxes are going to cover that though. There are some provinces in Canada that have provincial tax rates of 20%, on top of their federal taxes.

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If I had a magic wand, I'd do a few things related to healthcare amongst lower socioeconomic groups:

1. Provide GLP-1 generics through Medicaid and encourage their usage amongst overweight and diabetics.

2. Completely change what people can buy with food stamps. Luckily this is underway in several states.

3. Provide incentives for those on welfare/medicaid to stop procreating. Not sure how to accomplish it, but the poor and unhealhy procreate at a much more rapid pace than the rest of society. Maybe $10,000 one time payments to men on welfare to get vasectomies. I don't know.

4. Provide incentives for those on welfare/medicaid with children to get married. They are playing the "single parent" issue to game the system even if there is a man present in the child's lives.

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Younger physicians are doing a much much better job of not just throwing medication at a patient

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not in Louisiana

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That’s actually measured you know?

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yes, I used to do research on that stuff

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yes, I used to do research on that stuff

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No you didn’t

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You can’t be more wrong

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She probably wants more detailed guidance from Drs to improve patients lifestyles

One of the problems with this is a lot unhealthy Americans who make up a substantial portion of these patients are very hard to convince

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Yeah the healthcare system in this country is fricked because of illegal immigrants. Holy shite what an idiotic take. Obese you’d have a point but illegal immigrants?! Boomers getting access to Facebook was a huge mistake. Zuckerberg has burned a hole in your brain brother

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You're not wrong, but 80% of the problem is caused by lazy entitled FAT Americans. Illegals are only a drop in the bucket.

Older physicians are much more likely to go to pharmaceuticals and its multi faceted

1. The pharma boom of the 80s 90s happened when they were starting out
2. Less emphasis during school of lifestyle medicine
3. Just burn out of seeing patients being lazy and not caring


You can be frustrated as a whole doctors “treat the symptoms” , but that’s far more of an issue as physicians age.

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

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They didn’t want to cover my mammogram before the age of 40 despite having both my Mother (who died of it) and Grandmother having breast cancer. I had to fight for it and my OB/GYN basically had to write a letter for it.

Then they didn’t want to cover my breast biopsy when something did come up on the mammogram (at 43) and I had to fight for it.

I shouldn’t have had to make multiple appeals to get those things covered.

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computer stuff” and billing?

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yes I know none is dedicated to billing - why should medical students have to study that?

And so much of the information is virtual - you can’t say there is no computer stuff.