the state of healthcare in US is absolutely horrifyng
How is that even possible that there's a place on earth where middle level engineers are paid 6 figures salaries but as a society they don't care if someone dies in a hospital bed over insurance legalities is completely maddening to me
it's one of those things that I will never understand and accept as normal
That’s a really harsh and unfair statement. The doctors and nurses care tremendously and want to help everyone, hospitals do their best to cure everyone. Yes, insurance sucks, but that doesn’t diminish the quality of the workers and how they’re trying to help you.
I think it's unfair and harsh that life or death are in the hands of private held companies that profit from people desperation.
> The doctors and nurses care tremendously and want to help everyone
But US as a society doesn't.
As an Italian I am heavily taxed just so everyone can benefit from free universal healthcare, regardless of the amount of care doctors and nurses put in their work.
In US people simply don't want to do it.
It's a fact, not a judgement.
To have access to medical attention not having to worry about your finances is much more important than relying of the goodwill of those who work in the healthcare system (and BTW my parents worked for the Italian healthcare their whole life, so I believe you when you say that medical personnel do care).
If sharing is caring, not wanting to share the tremendous amount of wealth produced in exchange for something that would greatly improve the life conditions of large segments of the population, what is?
US has the highest healthchare spending per capita in the World, but the lowest life expectancy of the entire west.
It is neither harsh nor unfair, it's reality. Your response is a generalisation. Perhaps you've had a great experience in the past that leads you to believe it to be universally true.
But not all doctors do care. I lived in the US for four years and we had a child while we were there. During that process we encountered both an obstetrician and a paediatrician who cared very little. The latter in particular.
Different people are motivated by different things. Some are motivated by wealth, some by prestige, some by compassion, some just by having a stable job. Doctors are people. Particularly in an industry where you can earn a great deal of money, motivations get skewed.
All that said, the parent comment is also a generalisation. People do care, there are some fantastic, compassionate people working in medicine in the US.
How is that even possible that there's a place on earth where middle level engineers are paid 6 figures salaries but as a society they don't care if someone dies in a hospital bed over insurance legalities is completely maddening to me
it's one of those things that I will never understand and accept as normal