40 Times People Shared How Messed Up The US Healthcare System Is

This. This needs to be more prevalent. Spam your government with it. They need to hear you, to care for you. That is one of their jobs.

I cannot say how much I hated reading this. People should never put their love on the line because of healthcare. I hope that something changes soon, but I doubt it will.

In the US medical system, death isn't the worst outcome. Financial death is

True. We really take it for granted; I'm appalled at these admissions. Sometimes there is a waiting period (luckily never been long for me), sometimes we complain about the care we receive but I've had a life-saving operation with a week in hospital and only paid about 180 euros

Send the hospital a bill for his organs!

Yep.

That is disgusting. This whole list is. I rely on the medical system to live, and I take it for granted it seems, this is majorly depressing

It's terrible but sounds just like in North Korea..

It falls on selective deaf ears!

This!!! Upvote times infinity

Look into the cost of Insulin World wide. Lowest is about $15 a vile. $300 in US.

God it is sad how true this is

Hey, Chocolate Rain man!

Again, I am going to cry. This is why I am sceptical about authority. Not just because of my skin colour, but because of things like this.

because thats what heroes do

Now, imagine if he lived in Canada. Free Healthcare, and a roof over his head. That's democracy.

And after having so many Gatorades, you will STILL need the healthcare.

People who think chewing is cosmetic and eyes are a luxury.

by profits they mean "getting filthy rich"

Obscene!

Your politicians are also inhumane

why do people still buy from amazon? support your local / small businesses

Wait...that's legal???

How can you even have a maximum sick days. It is not like, "Oh, I am out of my sick days, so I am cured now."

Hopefully Bezos et al will move there

What a b***h!

The odds against winning the lottery are pretty huge, but they're still better than working your way out of poverty.

Dear DR. Carroll - an Insurance company can over rule a Doctor's Order! This is one s**t head Country you live in! Insurance company's should be named after a famous man HITLER!

This teacher deserves everything good

Mission Impossible for the U.S.

Amazing huh, when in order to protect themselves they have to treat everyone, all of a sudden they can afford to give you a vaccine. They can afford way more than that. I hope to everything that this kind of topic becomes a thing of the past for more countries, and fast

Hurrah! I can just eat some stock!

That shows that all that money doesn't even gets used for more equipment - being short on ventilators was and is a problem all around the globe.

Health insurance is just as much of a scam as healthcare, if not worse!

And the incumbent party is actively negligent and the party that replaces them phoned up Jacinda for advice on how to pandemic only to ignore everything she actually said.

Did this guy buy the Pharmacy? That's an insane bill.

Tomi Lahren is one of the worst.

'Probably' fine. Just to be clear, when you go the NHS with a funny-looking mole, they will usually just whip that sucker straight off and biopsy it to be on the safe side. For $0. Demand better from your tax-charging government.

Welcome to Not America

Suddenly I am very glad that I live in South Africa, where both me and my wife's meds are fully covered by my medical aid

There is a lack of humanity in Insurance they are blood sucking bastards!

Somebody could make a movie out of this - A dystopia where the survival of ill people depends on "sponsors" (like in the Hungergames)

Yes that is correct. Save us from this dystopia.

Could someone explain this to me? I don't understand why Bernie dropping out suddenly made health insurance stocks increase....

Job at 14?

Why on earth can't you Americans fight the greedy hospital administrations that charge such gross amounts for treatment. You've heard of people power, start a campaign, if one man can have the cost of insulin capped, think what millions of you could do. Start on the insurance companies as well, sounds as if a lot of the medical insurance policies aren't worth the paper they are written on. Go on, start campaigning, fight for Obama care. I wouldn't visit America if I was paid to, you have the greediest CEO's in the world.

People often confound the european social market system with socialism - two complete different things!

Please can someone explain this to me. If a married couples' income goes over a threshold then one of them loses healthcare? Am I understanding this correctly?

that is absolutely ridiculous i mean $10 for a cough drop why u could probably buy a whole box for that price

Thats a pretty colorful nickname

You don't need to breathe after six months, right?

Wait, the company is really called Gilead?!

the American dream folks

That'd be $300 thank you

How can a Insurance company tell you that you are not a candidate for a heart transplant. Have they seen or examined you - this country is treating you like Hitler treated the Jews - into the ovens we need more room for more people to kill!