Why Americans are angry with the U.S. health care system

[@knowledgeispower8625]

“When the rich rob the poor, it’s called business. When the poor fight back, it’s called violence.” -Mark Twain

[@MamaBear01234]

I had a patient discharged from a long term acute care facility due to insurance not covering the patients stay any longer. This patient died 2 days later at a nursing home. According to the insurance company, the patient did not need the higher level of care. It is criminal the way insurance dictates your care.

[@Shining237]

US healthcare system is the most expensive worldwide due to its a "for profit" healthcare system.

[@Instinct97]

For profit isn’t a problem when providers and healthcare professionals are the ones making the profit. It’s all the administrative overhead and greed; ie middle men, insurance companies, and executives.

[@phillipblair9511]

Put "Healthcare" in quotes too. 💔 4th of June 2024, FDA "voted" against the concensus medical science by blocking MDMA assisted therapy for PTSD. Every hour, a US military veteran with PTSD unalives themselves. 🕯

[@rogerrussell9544]

No, it's the government regulations and mandates. Prior to government healthcare was provided by non-profits, let's go back to that!

[@fluxcapacitor1621]

Death avoidance is currently extorted and capitalized by shareholders because your life is priceless and they know it.

[@georgevan2589]

@@Instinct97 Exactly right; at least 25% added to costs to pay for these middle men, then add excessive drug costs, etc and it adds up to the most expensive system in the world but ranks #42 in overall effectiveness.

[@simpleuser0001]

Act of violence not justified? What about CEO's increasing claim denial rates up to 35%?!

[@144k_Kingdom_Living]

Protect the elite.....shssshhhh

[@rogerrussell9544]

Guess what, i was on a medicare HMO and denied for necessary treatment.

[@ksf1107]

Obamacare is Great, thanks Democrats.

[@rogerrussell9544]

@@ksf1107 Yes, government cares about our every ache and pain.

[@tygressblade]

@@ksf1107You need to include the Republicans too. They get donations from insurance companies.

[@marryellenmonahan5585]

We have a for profit health care system. Let's start there.😮

[@gbottle0521]

UHC will be out of business in the future soon

[@charbam9506]

Exactly! And….that for some bizarre reason are allowed to be publicly held…so must give shareholders ever increasing profit quarterly.

[@charbam9506]

@@gbottle0521🤞we can only hope

[@lincolndachane1484]

The insurance industry is there to make a profit. They don't care you got sick - they want their premiums and their profit.

[@autobotdiva9268]

in the richest country.

[@Teeny-l2x]

Cause it’s all a money grab for them

[@CourageUnderFire87]

Movement has been sparked

[@charbam9506]

Pray it doesn’t fizzle out; we are notorious for attention deficits!

[@paladro]

@@charbam9506 you think that anger is gone because one is down... not even close.

[@WilliamBrowning]

I hope you're right. It's time for a change.

[@bonnievalls5037]

All insurance costs ,no matter what they're are covering are over charging and taking advantage of people

[@2fuzy]

The marketing/propaganda to preserve the system has all ready started with the long wait time , socialism bs funny thing is if one checks you will find many selling that bs have had the youtube account for a very short time 😂😂

[@bjbear5202]

The health care system is bad enough, the health insurance industry is worse. A bunch of bureaucrats practicing medicine without a license, gatekeeping what little care we have access to as the bottom 99%.

[@MH-pz8wf]

Finally some decent reporting on the root cause of the outrage to whole health care systems not just the health insurance industries. Policy makers do the right things for people and not for the lobbyists

[@scottgraham2530]

Why is healthcare a part of capitalism isn’t healthcare supposed to be for the betterment of humans not for the betterment of a company?

[@ShirlBussman]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kmarks97236]

Delay, Deny, Depose! You going to send the cops after me? You won’t have enough jail cells for everyone, besides who you gonna rip off if you put us all in jail?

[@aaronbrandon2321]

Anyone who cant afford to leave the country for real healthcare is negatively impacted by the failure of the American healthcare system. The rich get more then half their medical work done overseas.

[@ilessthan3fgc]

"Capitalize upon their need to stay alive. The sick will pay any price they need to stay alive, until they grow sicker and need more of our medications. Then we deny the sick to force debt upon their families. The CEOs will make millions and millions for themselves. F*** the poor. They should have chosen somewhere better to have been born."

[@rogerrussell9544]

They avoid government mandates and regulations that way. I wish we could do that at home.

[@SKULLTHEWIZARD]

So, hopefully, we will get a better president in the next 4 years. That is all about making healthcare free.

[@Smidgen-x4i]

Specifically where? I personally know Canadians and Brits who come because they can't get what they desperately need at home.

[@ShirlBussman]

@@SKULLTHEWIZARD It will never be free.

[@deeannakim9306]

I had never seen the country so united on healthcare insurance issues. You know the problem is serious when the whole country is so united.

[@divinelyindifferent]

IT’S deny, DEFEND, depose. Not DELAY.

[@Vince-l4k]

Modern day Robin hood

[@slowbro1337]

Poor lady didn't deserve that. They going to arrest everyone who is upset at them??

[@ilessthan3fgc]

More evidence that money runs law in America

[@gbottle0521]

UHC will be out of business in the future soon

[@billh.1940]

No, they will sell or transfer to a new company or just change their name. Soon enough you will forgot. Btw how's the bud lite boycott going?

[@gbottle0521]

@@billh.1940 if sell or transfer then UHC name will be out of business.

[@crazysquirrel9425]

@@billh.1940 Still not buying or drinking it.

[@billh.1940]

@@gbottle0521 I don't drink lite beer anyway, so boycott was easy. I did check out what other beers they sold. Almost a monopoly. Enjoy the holiday's.

[@phdtesla8325]

United deathcare?

[@SylviaHerrera-y2g]

We need universal health care. Not health care should be up for sale

[@eliharp3576]

I've had two collection calls this week for an annual deductible. One the bill itself was issued 12-1-2024 and due 12-29-2024. The second call came the day after making payment for the first. That bill had not even been issued. I thought collection calls only come after the date due!

[@jmorrison44601]

Stop privatizing healthcare, Insurance companies already rip people off enough with auto insurance and homeowners insurance, so take the health insurance out of the equation and nationalize healthcare

[@crazysquirrel9425]

How about simply passing laws to LIMIT their profits instead? And other laws requiring them to cover medications?

[@divinelyindifferent]

And? You don’t have to be a customer to have a grievance. Wait-are y’all trynna say that only paying clients are allowed to have criticism/feedback? That sounds *very corporate elitist* of y’all. Just saying.

[@azroseazlang9995]

if you complain They drop u not allowed in Dr. Office

[@theonlycus5952]

You don't have to tell us.... We know why.

[@billh.1940]

The health insurance companies have heard you! Now 90% of claims will be denied.

[@aryana7798]

Almost everyone said Luigi was with them during the time of CEO sh*oting. At the end of the day, Luigi is the one to go through all alone. Luigi went to fight the corporate companies all by himself for our good. How are we going to help him get out of this and also start a movement.

[@RoxanneM-]

Anyone who hurts others in what they do to earn money is a criminal in my book. Values matter.

[@dixiemerchant1052]

Literally no mention of the denial and delay delays! What a puff piece!

[@jeansangare325]

You can't pay your out of pocket for your prescription, sick or not you are not getting it!

[@bengaljam4550]

This is what Americans have voted for. Nothing will change. They don't want just a profit. They want a maximum profit.

[@mistervo8185]

Why does a medication in Europe cost 5$, but the EXACT same medication in the United States costs $50?

[@luckyotter623]

We're the only developed country where people are forced to deal with a middleman that gets between them and their access to healthcare.

[@jackiecastillo2484]

The 🌎 has gone mad! 😡

[@paladro]

the news has ignored this for a generation, because the board are invested in insurance businesses.

[@OlWyatt]

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” So bogus. How the hell can someone be happy or pursue anything if they’re sick! If they die for someone else’s yacht! Yeah, you’re free, free to die or be in debt forever and still probably die. Healthcare is a human right! We have the resources, they just aren’t in the right places. SO MANY people have lost loved one or suffered for some out of touch rich psychopath. At least this news segment tried to touch on some of the grievances, instead of basically all the other ones gaslighting and lying. We aren’t stupid. This greed has got to go.

[@jamesmccoy5692]

We don't have an "health care system". What we have is, Insurance companies exploiting/ capitalizing on a human beings need, for health care!

[@Bestlifesofar]

THE TRUTH HERE IT IS as it’s behind the scenes information: Healthcare Systems/Hospital CEO & Leadership take large salary plus perks while understaffing all the clerical staff that process the claims. Over 50% of those entire claims never get touched or corrected. They get paid less than fast food workers and it’s been going on for decades! Every year they lay off clinical staff including doctors and the clerical folks that do majority of the paperwork. DOCTORS are quitting and fed up with leadership but don’t entirely stand up against them because they too are employees. I witnessed a whole office of doctors leave HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES are not regulated enough and government has allowed them to control healthcare through tedious prior authorization and claims denials when not justified. Practices are in place to intentionally delay and deny care. It’s strategic THIRD PARTY BROKERS , FMO, IMO are PIMPS in the sales side of these health plans. DIRTY BUSINESS AND MANY SCHEME TO SELL MOSTLY UHC FOR HIGHER COMMISSION AND KICKBACK. THESE FMO (s) are highly unregulated and need to be EXPOSED. Very unethical, dirty and takes advantage of Americans at large.

[@maikel07777]

Is denying healthcare insurance justified? The media will ignore that question.

[@FutureAIDev2015]

I would say the same thing is true about the housing industry, specifically for those who rent housing instead of purchase it. For too long stupidly large corporations have been mass purchasing rental properties and holding on to them, often unoccupied, abusing them as though they were commodities to be traded like stocks.

[@plinkthecat8543]

And still they voted Trump back in. You think he will solve the healthcare problem? I give up on you, America.

[@2fuzy]

Everyone should call their health insurance and tell them deny depose delay but most folks don't want to spend half a day on hold

[@WishingStarflakes]

What's with all these fake accounts commenting?

[@ilessthan3fgc]

The bot's cannot let the American People unite for a cause. It gets in the way of their bottom line.

[@reaperdragon1]

They are CEO's

[@rickschablitsky6211]

Because it has increased health care, as well as insurance. Look it up,,,

[@user-nn7uk1wn3n]

the quality is too bad for the price you pay.

[@eflat6522]

what the hell is 'affordable' about the affordable care act?

[@georgevan2589]

If you qualify the premiums are partially subsidized so while not near as good as universal healthcare it's much cheaper for an individual to get coverage.

[@eflat6522]

@ it is coverage that most cannot afford to use. I’ve needed surgery over a year, but if I get the surgery I go bankrupt. So save the party line BS.

[@Kennethjames.]

You really gotta ask…

[@malaykatoure8706]

There needs to be jury nullification not because his actions are condoned, but because they are symptomatic of a bigger societal issue that needs to be highlighted immediately!!

[@charbam9506]

And because his “victim” was a mass murderer

[@azroseazlang9995]

YES its Broken Never see same Dr. for more then 6 months then they leave or move .. They do what Insurance says never help or fight for the person They Never help just see ya in 3 months Nothing gets done

[@edrepard]

Elon made 100 billion since the election and he don't think it's cool to celebrate a CEO going down.

[@dfinma]

I will answer your question -- because a healthcare system should provide healthcare, not generate billions (that's BILLIONS with a B) in profit every year. That's why.

[@rhscubadiver4379]

Thank you Obama for Obama care.

[@edwardsodke5860]

Healthcare should be an entitlement where there is no interest in creating unregulated profits. Insurance is for extraordinary catastrophes, accidents, or occasions and is unregulated. Insurances have unrestrained profits. Unrestrained profits offer an incentive to give poor service.

[@priscillaszporka4983]

LET'S ALL FIX IT....Healthcare...Democrats and Republicans. SAME WITH THE BORDER.

[@cameron00148]

The fact that you have to pay for parking at a lot of hospitals, should be enough to show the problem with these greedy insurance companies! NO ONE and I mean NO ONE on their day off is going to say "Hmmm I feel like going to the hospital today for no reason at all" 😑😴

[@kellimoore141]

New meaning to “3D”

[@jwells3315]

Not only private healthcare but also the V.A. healthcare system because they are using private healthcare more and more called " Community Care"

[@nufamilia]

Cuz republicans keep fighting our requests for more benefits.

[@blevbeat]

Both sides are letting healthcare influence them. Not just republicans.

[@nufamilia]

@blevbeat theyve had concepts of a plan for over 20yrs. They don't lack complaints though. Zero ideas.

[@colleenpeck6347]

They also refuse to raise takes on the rich!

[@Tokamak3.1415]

@@nufamilia The ACA was written by United Health and other lobbyists. I read the whole thing as a physician. I quit. Perhaps that's why Nancy wouldn't disclose what was in it before passage.

[@ahmadali-pu5qn]

Maybe America shouldn’t send billions of dollars to Israel where healthcare is free. Instead help Americans

[@LucianoMMatias]

Two weeks ago I had a health problem, was taken to the hospital by ambulance, made several exams and got the treatment I needed. Walk out the next day. Total cost: 0€ How much it would be in the US?

[@SKULLTHEWIZARD]

Just make healthcare free.

[@Paul_425]

Both left and right agreed on profit over lives business to grow. That's the cause not Luigi, he is the result. Many more to come if this continues.

[@magellankiller]

And this is being treated as something that we couldn’t have seen? Talk to someone who was forced BY their Medical insurance company to find a primary care although there was found to be unnecessary and soon after they do find one then mysterious ailments begin to crop up. Then your life and free time is not your own. You're soon under fire from your employer for using your sick leave when you're scheduled for the myriads of Dr.'s appointments that will NEVER, EVER END. The trips to labs for blood tests upon blood tests. The pharmacy staff and you are on first name basis.. You used to be able to condense your medical bills AND the parking fees you had to pay on your taxes..... But no more!😮

[@phonkyfeel1]

If you are a big tree, we are a small axe.

[@phonkyfeel1]

Thank you Bob Nesta Marley

[@Sammasambuddha]

Health Care in USA is a joke.

[@noemitorres651]

It’s been broken

[@stefanieraymond4474]

I pay over half of my SS ck just for health ins. It's ridiculous. I had breast cancer & dbl mastectomy. Now I'm being told my Supplement won't cover any of my care even tho Medicare will pay 80%.

[@shannoncurtis5234]

This was unfortunately, but it started a conversation.

[@AJxxxxxxxx]

these insurance companies literally profit from your misery and walk away with your cash when you die

[@noemitorres651]

And it’s not a problem wow 25%

[@brendanjrice7307]

Universal healthcare now

[@judiesuh6858]

United States has the worst healthcare in the world. My sister had excellent healthcare insurance. Sh was fighting non-smoking lung cancer. She fought bravely for 7 1/2 years before passing. Her claims were being getting accepted less and less.

[@Matt-j5b]

I get it however no argument will justify that type of action

[@damham5689]

Of course we are angry. People dont go broke or get denied life saving care in just about every other modern country in the world. The US is the wealthiest but is 49th in quality if care in the world and cost at least twice as much for even basic medical care.

[@gloria8027]

You have to have health insurance or the hospitals will increase what you owe. Even if the insurance does not pay their share, the hospital can only charge so much because they have an agreement with the insurance company. It called sleeping with the enemy.

[@wendwllhickey6426]

She is not gulity raise money for bail so she can get back to her kids

[@Twinwar]

Does this really need an explanation? I mean, our healthcare system is one of the worst in the world. I once had to spend $350 with United healthcare insurance for my insulin. That’s a car payment. Average people can’t afford that kind of money for life-saving medication. The anger for our healthcare system is valid. And the United States better do something about it. Otherwise you’re gonna have even more angry citizens.

[@Smidgen-x4i]

Our legal system. Too expensive to enforce insurance contracts. Fix that and you'll solve many problems. Conflict of interest: My doctors' practice was bought by an insurance company. . Expectations, Many Americans feel entitled to have the government take care of them. Wishful thinking. Many want Britain's system. But talk with any Brit. who came here for our system. (in Britain, you "have" coverage but you just can't get on the schedule for treatment.)

[@rosesola3007]

Expensive, there greedy !

[@noemitorres651]

Wow it so bad that you don’t get Heard never did and it’s gotten worse especially for Pregnant women 😢😢😢😢

[@edgardorosa560]

What happened to the obamacare?

[@georgevan2589]

It has allowed access to healthcare to millions, but the ACA has it's limitations by still going through the insurance companies. A government controlled system adds about 3-4% to the administrative costs whereas the current system adds almost 25%. Also the drug companies, pharmacy benefit managers, and insurance companies work together to keep all of their profits high while squeezing healthcare providers and patients.

[@1man2many]

You are not talking about 'healthcare', you are talking about insurance or other means of PAYING for healthcare. I clicked on this video to see if medical protocols and treatments (ie healthcare) were going to be improved.

[@letoannang3145]

Profit on people health. More blood more profit.

[@kylemitchell328]

How about massive deregulation including no more barrier to entry through licensing? In addition no more government mandated through violence requirements to have insurance. Side note employer supplied insurance started during WWII because the government implemented wage controls. Employers couldn't pay more actual wages so they came up with "health care benefits." Now you have a perverse incentive to charge more because there is a collective pot of money. And there is no such thing as price gouging. There is simply what the market will support.

[@SwampHodag]

The Tree of Liberty...and all that jazz.

[@wendyhooser9413]

I am a Democrat. I am on a fixed income! This guy murdered this man!.He needs to go to prison!

[@lostinpa-dadenduro7555]

Has Nintendo released a statement yet ?

[@pr0fess0rbadass]

Saying 3 words is considered a threat now? Lmao

[@angelfish2529]

Interesting that few people are making any connection between Obamacare and increasing healthcare costs.

[@georgevan2589]

Wrong!

[@angelfish2529]

@georgevan2589 check your facts. Read the 2015 GAO Obamacare report.

[@rogerrussell9544]

Obamacare solved nothing. Get the government out of my doctors office.

[@wendyhooser9413]

Well that would not have been the case if you had voted the Democrats in! Now deal with it!

[@hl0984]

Is that a wig behind the screen? 😂

[@renaissance18]

this reminds me of tenchu through the portal = ceo over charging a price for a vaccine LOL

[@commenter2446]

US current health care system in is Obamacare in action.

[@CharlesDeBoer-j1h]

This is the most useless (and uninformed) analysis that could only come from corporate news.

[@wendwllhickey6426]

We are not going. Back to the 1940 not happing

[@georgevan2589]

Too bad we didn't set up a universal system like almost every other industrial democracy did in the 1940s. We would be much healthier on average, we have very good healthcare if you can afford it, but many can't and that brings down our life expectancy numbers and quality of life for many because they can't afford it.

[@jiroyamada7983]

America profits over what ails their people 😂

[@azroseazlang9995]

Pelosi fell today out side od usa wonder if she had Obama care .. yep fell up or down stairs oh poor gal Bet she gets the best of the best

[@georgevan2589]

No, all of Congress gets first class paid healthcare like all of us should get. Obamacare is much better than nothing, and should really be called Romneycare as he was the first to enact it as governor of Massachusetts.

[@马翔-j5d]

七哥出來了嗎？？

[@rickschablitsky6211]

Blame it on Obama and Obama care.

[@Adrienne-wv7qo]

Why?

[@charbam9506]

It’s far more nuanced than Obamacare. Unless you’ve studied the full history of the Health Insurance Industry (which I suspect you have not), I would avoid empty, ill informed one-liners.

[@colleenpeck6347]

The words of an ignorant Trumper! 🙄

[@Tokamak3.1415]

@@charbam9506 It has many factors besides Obamacare, but Obamacare was a giant handout to UH. UH was their biggest lobbyist. UH was the ACA's biggest corporate backer. Look how much their AARP supplemental plan enrollment grew after passage. Now Medicare automatically enrolls you in a company like UH and you have to opt out to stay private. I was a private physician. I quit partially due to this crap. You can see the same thing with how their PBMs are killing private pharmacies. Same way Walmart and Costco are killing mom and pop retail stores and gas stations. Corporate lobbyists.

[@rickschablitsky6211]

@ I would say your the ignorant one most likely supporting Biden and Harris, the worst train wreck in modern history,,, oh yeah did you know Trump won again 😂

[@gingermarie1760]

Hello there, May I share the most important news with you? God the Father sent his Holy Son Jesus (Y'shua) to earth to be born of a virgin. He grew up and died on the cross for our sins. After that they put Him in a tomb for 3 days, and on the 3rd day Abba Father raised Jesus to life and He appeared to people. Then Christ ascended back to heaven. We all must genuinely believe in Christ and receive Him into our life as Savior to be saved. John 1:12 says: " But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name." Will you put genuine faith in Christ and receive Him into your life today?

[@mushy2bc482]

Why is no one asking why Obama ruined the healthcare system 😅😅😅😅

[@aaronbrandon2321]

Becuase he didn't and that's a goofball take. Obama didn't invent insurance companies, or corporatism they've been around.

[@robertjamesonmusic]

Dumb take

[@mushy2bc482]

@@aaronbrandon2321 he made them accept everything then fine Americans for not having healthcare ... I'm. Not saying the system is perfect but it saves lives everyday ...

[@mexicandoll31]

The best insurance I ever had was thru obamacare.