[imperiouskitten]

Originally Posted by douglas1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Literally everybody has access to doctors. A homeless person can walk into an ER and be treated. Doctors have to sacrifice and dedicate decades of their life to being *good* though. It would be great if everyone could have 24\7 access to the best doctors in the world, and those doctors could still be compensated fairly for their dedication to the profession, and the quality of care would not decrease. Unfortunately resources are finite. Obviously that does not mean it can't be improved, but utopia is not attainable, and modern far left politics has a distinctly utopian bent.

Oh please. I've been uninsured before and it meant zero medical care. Don't go in to the hospital unless my appendix is bursting. No preventative care. No antidepressants, no sleeping pills, not even a thought about getting HRT since it felt so out of reach. Christ, I remember how it felt. Like I was a week or three driving tickets from falling into the street all the time. And when I did have to go to the ER, which will only treat certain conditions doofus, threats of docking my pay directly were made if I don't pay my medical bills to Oregon back.

If we funneled money into it (subsidy), the resource pool could and would expand. But you don't even respond about the deficit question, just pivot to some nonsense.

Most American doctors are totally for shit btw, I know more about medicine than 90% of the docs I've been treated by but yet there is an arbitrary "expertise" paywall standing between me and simple medications like antibiotics, five-cent estrogen pills and meloxicam which could be behind glass at the grocery store and handled by a pharmacist's assistant or cashier. It's a mafia system which deserves zero respect. I would have zero ongoing access to these things, which excepting antibiotics I need daily everyday, from the ER. The system sucks dick and you are a dicksucker to paint it as some shining edifice of brilliance and hyperprofessionalism. A young dicksucker who has never had medical problems. Try getting really sick and let me know how trustworthy those offices really are at processing your referrals, getting your prescriptions in, etc. In reality the patient has to do every single task for them, calling 5x to get each one done, even at "fine hospitals" like UW that are raking in billions.

We already have Brazilian medical care even at the premium we pay; it's just nobody knows it because so few people have access and need of the premium shit I do. I have very good medical care because I am (cleverly on my part [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]) classified as impoverished and Oregon/Washington spoil impoverished people with insane medical care. I can't get a normal job because I won't be able to stay classified as impoverished in order to continue receiving the best medical care available in the US. No, I can't get a job and just go to the ER to continue getting my prescriptions.

Let me be the canary in the coal mine: if your hands stop operating, you will be completely unable to make the fifteen to twenty phone calls per day, consuming your entire day every day, required to manage your medical care and bully staff into actually moving your paperwork, so I hope you have people around you who will help. This is the "customer experience" of being a multimillion-dollar patient. Nobody cares because it's a racket and millions are a drop in a vast, vast bucket. I sure hope you like smooth jazz btw, you'll be hearing a LOT of it through one ear when you are pursuing your second surgery to fix the first one which was botched by a scumbag doctor (PS, you have no recourse for this). This is the amazing medical care for the rich you would sacrifice lives to conserve.

The slashing of regulations to allow Teladoc was a huge step forward and all it took was sapping a tiny bit of power from the medical mafia. I have no doubt we could reform our system to treat 10 times the patients at no additional cost. Certain lazy pieces of shit, MD who have benefitted from slow moving borderline no-show mobster medical jobs might be bummed out, tho.

You are just so full of shit and clearly have very little experience with the world. God is in his heaven and all is right when ur a 5'6" conservative bottom and you're doing fine. For anyone with chronic medical problems, though, insured or not, I promise you the system sucks. Sucks. Hit me up when it's gone otherwise than fine and healthy for you, and you can imagine a use for medicine other than stitching a severed arm back on. Thanks for at least posting a limp, deflective reply I guess.