Why U.S. Hospitals Are Closing

In rural towns across the U.S. hospitals are in crisis. Since 2010, 121 rural hospitals have closed. And, the National Rural Health Association says more than one-third of all rural hospitals in the U.S. are at serious risk of shutting down.
But not all hospitals are losing money. A series of mergers and acquisitions that began in the 1990's has created massive hospital groups. Many of these hospital consortiums are turning huge profits every year by offering high priced services to well insured patients.
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Why U.S. Hospitals Are Closing

[@shanepankhurst9958]

Don't need hospitals when you can't afford healthcare lol

[@DB-ld7ph]

Bernie 2020 is 400 a month for me I take home like 1800 a month pay 900 for rent 250 on Bill's it's insanely expensive

[@DB-ld7ph]

@Sarah R yea bernie fre college for students

[@KOLAkola]

S P true all the healthcare is in the fruits and veggies anyways

[@DB-ld7ph]

@@KOLAkola I got fell off a million stairs let me eat some carrots

[@papito2222]

Medicare for all would fix this but Americans rather die than they be guaranteed health insurance for life

[@hansklaus6860]

The fact that hospitals can even go bankrupt says a lot about the american health system.

[@Coolrunnings007]

Hans Klaus well that means that those hospital who provide terrible service should be able to go under. For example in Eastern Europe the government would keep this terrible hospitals going even though they should have long closed. So putting endless money is not the way to either I promise.

[@wqmf9356]

@@Coolrunnings007 Do it like The Netherlands. Hospitals that are good will get helped but those who are not will have to go. Helping means more than spending money on them. Give them new management controlled by the government.

[@Q_QQ_Q]

@Wqm F or those hospitals working can be expended while low earning hospitals can be turned into low facilities hospitals .

[@sato88888888]

Many rural hospitals go bankrupt because of shrinking rural populations. But yeah, I guess anyone can make stupid assumptions.

[@patricec.2957]

@@Coolrunnings007 the only problem with your example is that the USA has a higher infant mortality rate, and the average age of death is 5 years lower than in Europe. so the figures prove that Europe has a much better medical system than the USA.

[@celieboo]

"Hospitals want people who can be treated for 'profitable conditions" --that is horrible considering that hospitals make the most money off of cancer care, heart disease, and join disease. That is why almost every hospital has very prominent cancer care centers, orthopedic centers, and heart centers.

[@joedaoust5942]

And they really don't want a health society so they make sure fast food, cigarettes, guns and drugs are everywhere. Makes for a nice healthy bottom line.

[@saudielbamber4227]

@@joedaoust5942 well citizens fight hard to stop things like a sugar tax so the people deserve blame as well.

[@leekenyon8705]

Don't forget that some doctors want to create those conditions for profit and sadistic pleasure.

[@cathat227]

Now the unvaccinated

[@SweetPotatoesBlackStyle25]

My orthopedic dropped me because of money

[@1trschaefer78]

Healthcare & hospitals used to be about helping people. Now it's all about business profits.

[@meahdahlgren6537]

Right

[@heidihernandez5895]

💯

[@paulbrungardt9823]

Thank you Obamacare!

[@arseniaponseca9918]

Yeah....But who pays for their salaries...benefits supplies..safety..regulations. CAPITAL equipment in the $$$$$$$$$$$$$ millions..upkeep..and .any more Plus.many DO NOT HAVE INSURANCE ...or uncollected debt..WHO PAYS for that?????????????...?????

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Stolen Medical Supplies

[@Daniel-wd2ir]

The US is a country that can’t take care of its own people, but goes across the globe to meddle in other countries business. EDIT: I didn’t expect the variety of reactions my comment got, I’m really surprised! Also, what i mean by my comment is: countries should take care of their people first and foremost! I, personally, don’t pay taxes so that my country can go and buy guns to dictators or rebels halfway across the world; set up coups or do anything but take care of its people. Healthcare, safety, education, good infrastructure, good business conditions and so on should be the priorities of every nation, not conflict.

[@TheMindofGod]

WELL SAID!

[@Kev376]

The US is a country made up of multiple people, and thus... can multitask... bro...

[@cappuccinopapi3038]

Kevin apparently it can’t

[@Kev376]

@@cappuccinopapi3038 The lower 20% wage earners in our country earned an average of 4.4% more this year, so whatever it's doing is really good.

[@Q_QQ_Q]

USA only works for whites . If something aint getting addressed then it means its not affecting whites .

[@bluenightsky]

A hospital shouldn't be looking at a sick person and ask, how much money can I make off of him/her. Such a disgrace that being sick is looked at as a business.

[@johnuthus]

That's the insurance companies

[@Khamiel]

Where else they going to get the money

[@carstenlarsen8144]

??- but it is business.. they only made the hole hospital because the could se some gold at the end of that rainbow.. The really ugly thing-is that you us peoplle are letting that happen to you.. how stupid is that.. but every time you have to help one another and chip and share and build- then sombody is screaming...kummies.. and then it stops again- thats why u not give anything -because it is...communism..no it is nor- how have you ever mad a road for everyone to use ?- that is pure kommunism..some obne paid and they maybe donot even use it... read a bit about us pople in denmark

[@johnuthus]

@@Khamiel not charging 7 USD for a band aid

[@WA_S_S_AW]

and that’s why the rest of the civilized world has single payer or what we are pushing for here Medicare for All

[@leschurchill804]

I worked at Jefferson, and the closure of Hahnemann was very traumatic to us. The influx was very damaging to Jefferson, and the volume was very overwhelming. The way they treated the patients once they closed was absolutely appalling. People were left with no way to access their records, and it caused dangerous delays in the patients receiving time saving medical care. Everything that they are saying is the truth. The CEO was a real 'heal.' He left in the middle of the night. Ms. L. Churchill

[@DavidHalverson]

One advantage of having hospitals digitize the patient's medical records so the information can be stored in an off-site repository for use by every medical facility world-wide. In effect, your health card is your entire medical history. Paperforms kept in boxes are prone to deterioration over the years, damaged or lost due to fire or incorrectly filed by Records Department staff.

[@randomstuff-qu7sh]

@@DavidHalverson True, but the disadvantage to that is it makes your medical records more vulnerable to medical ID theft. That can result in theft of your benefits (you need it and discover someone else took it first), getting bills for debts you don't owe and getting hounded by debt collectors for those debts, damage your credit score, and can potentially be life threatening since if the criminal's info gets mixed into your records (since doctors would be basing their decisions off of an incorrect medical history).

[@wilburmcbride8096]

You wrote down the wrong"Heal." You mean to write Heel like the heel on a shoe! The heal you used is to heal a person from illness.

[@SybilKibble]

And Virtua is just awful. My doctor I think did her ops at Hahnemann, now goes through Virtua. I stopped coming down there because of the greed; I could not even get an answer to a basic question like "can you please contact my dermatologist to see if my skin is healed enough so I won't reject the implant." Nope. Another train trip and string of hotel stays. When I told the office clerk that, she said "oh we have patients fly down from Canada." Lady, it's not a competition so stop treating it like that. They wanted the $$$ for every little thing at the pt's expense. I told my doctor in my home state what the Dr. recommended and got it done up here.

[@Ringele5574]

Now you go to the hospital and stay for a few days and you get bills from 10 different companies. Hospitals are now like a flea market for healthcare. You pay for each different treatment vendor. Hospital, radiology, laboratory, food service, doctor/s, ect.

[@bentorno7821]

And here is the problem, hospitals are a business in The US

[@hg1990]

Yea, this is wrong and should be forbidden.

[@ritchesusanjason]

Hospitals became business all over the world.

[@dr.felipedbr2783]

All over the world dude

[@TheLiasas]

As it should be. Having the goal of making money is whatd drives any entity to give the most out of itself in order to achieve so. Then money promotes evolution and wider access to many technologies. People need to get off the idea that everything should be handed to them because of them just deserving so. Ofc some adjustments should be done in order to make the market more accessible to everybody, but anyone who believes that health care should be 100% "free" is just delusional

[@owenbunny4023]

@Wee Chatt how about tax money.? and an free market competition for medicine?

[@alexi8987]

People can’t afford visiting the hospital or the education to be a doctor.

[@PInk77W1]

Deadpanlolli because of govt

[@konvosationblak9640]

Yeah I think they shot themselves in the foot with this one

[@dolphingoboop]

Him Bike No actually, this generally has more to do with Insurance companies trying to profit off of hospitals

[@1flash3571]

@@dolphingoboop It is the gov't allowing convoluted billing system, drug buying programs which is stupid - they don't negotiate the price like they do in another country. U.S. ALSO subsidize drug prices for other countries. That is why the same drugs are much more EXPENSIVE in the U.S. than in other countries.

[@dolphingoboop]

Flash357 Oh I see what you meant now. Thanks for correcting me!

[@fluffypuff766]

*"Hospitals are closing!"* Well, maybe if it weren't so flippin' expensive, maybe we would consider going... especially if we need it...

[@JC02official]

Absolutely sickening how hospitals have become corporate businesses. They care more about money than their own patients. How many people have died unnecessarily from this awful system.

[@richardbowers3647]

none have taken the oath that I now of!!!!

[@MiracleFound]

The hospitals aren't the ones causing the price problems. It is the insurance companies that drive the prices.

[@joshsullie4003]

@@MiracleFound that’s not true for the most part. If you ever go to a doctor or hospital without insurance they have two prices. The hospitals have been pushing for more profits by exploiting nurses and staff for the last 10 years. Claiming that they are loosing money while paying executives billions in bonuses. Plus all of the kick backs that insurance companies get for becoming a preferred point for their customers.

[@MiracleFound]

@Josh Sullie I am aware of that. Having worked in hospitals since 1976, I watched insurance companies take over healthcare during the 80's and 90's. As insurance companies took over, prices spiked to crazy levels. Graham-Rudman in the 80's was the beginning of those prices going up ridiculously. Over 50% of every dollar spent on healthcare in the US goes to the insurance companies. Yes, hospital prices are ridiculous, but it is totally about the way that insurance contracts are written. For example, when my husband was in the hospital, the insurance company paid $150.00 a day for the room, food, medicine and nursing care. Other procedures are paid at a set price and the insurance company pays for a preset amount based on the diagnosis. They pay, for example, for 3 days inpatient for congestive heart failure. If the hospital can get the patient home in one day, they profit, at 2 days they break even and at 3 days they start eating the cost. That is why, unless you are paying cash, there is no point in going over your hospital bill. Your insurance company doesn't pay based on itemization. Prices are set to get maximum profit for the insurance company, and the hospital, if they minimize the care they provide. Hospital employees have absolutely no idea what and how much things cost, mostly because it is different depending on what insurance you have, what your deductible is, and what the contract says. I did utilization review for a while where we did look and make sure that insurance mandated care restrictions were being followed. What is worse is that all of the major insurance companies are owned by the same group of people, but separate companies. The roll around cost and coverage and businesses rotate contracts with those companies. It is a big scam against US citizens. Our healthcare is decided by CEO's whose pay and bonuses are based on paying out the minimum amount possible. EMTALA ensures that everyone can receive life saving care, but it doesn't mandate any follow-up care. Single men are the least likely to get Medicaid if they don't have insurance. That means that if they have a heart attack, they are sent home with some medication but no rehab, no cardiologist and no way to refill that medicine. That happens until they end up on disability because they no longer can work due to the damage to their heart. At that point they are on disability and Medicaid and Medicare. Sadly, had they had the basic care and medications they would have been able to work and pay taxes for many more years, at a small fraction of what that heart attack cost. Our system is totally screwed up.

[@darter9000]

Kaiser Permanante is an insurance company… and operates their own hospitals… there is definitely an insurance takeover of hospitals.

[@ng3069]

My husband spent less than 24 hours in the hospital and had 2 heart stents put in. The bill was 99 thousand dollars. Ridiculous!!! This should not be allowed!

[@diamondgirllisa]

Novella Glass But how much of the 99 thousand did you actually pay though? Just an honest curious question? Or how much do you feel is an adequate amount?

[@SK-mr6ov]

diamondgirllisa exactly lol, just get some insurance

[@packinwood2009]

Its because you aren't paying for your visit. You are paying for everyone else who got their care without paying even $1.

[@youtuber6185]

packinwood2009 That’s true, my brother has a $22k Bill and told them he could pay for it so they charged him $0. He had insurance but was out of network.

[@humbawena]

that kind of money is criminal , how on earth can people pay that amount unless they are millionaires

[@lootrpv90]

"They [hospitals] want people who are going to be treated for profitable conditions." This is so dystopian...

[@fergus247]

How is that dystopian. Of course it costs money to get medical treatment. The problem is that the whole industry is hamstrung by government. They cant optimise or do things better. It has to be a certain way, the way government says, and ultimately thats just a bunch of hippies who have no clue about the healthcare industry to begin with and thats why it sucks. Get government out of healthcare and you will end up with a better system.

[@AMoistEggroll]

@@fergus247 The problem with that is if you completely rid gov't services in healthcare, corporate care will step in and dominate the whole industry. Of course, in a for-profit healthcare system which we're in, you're simply a consumer of your own health which I'd argue is morally worse. Sure it may advance medical innovations in the industry, but without oversight, patients are much more vulnerable to medical-corporate misconduct which has been reported and proven many times. Public health must start with the hospitals. We need hospitals that can operate under public-private partnerships without dealing with the hindrances from each entity.

[@christianlibertarian5488]

@@AMoistEggroll A large number of US hospitals, up until now, have been public-private. Those county hospitals you remember from your youth. And they were horribly run. That is why they are merging with stronger players.

[@celieboo]

Yes it is dystopian. Those profitable conditions are cancer, joint disease, and heart disease.

[@Jonathan-Pilkington]

@Lee Hardt The insurer owes you healthcare, that is the whole point of paying healthcare insurance.

[@carlynsykes6053]

I'd love to see this updated now after a year living under a pandemic.

[@signalfire6]

A huge amount of health care workers either died from Covid, got sick with it and have really bad lingering effects, or decided all the Trump supporting non-mask wearing assholes weren't worth risking their lives for and 'retired' or went into other jobs, that's what happened.

[@theyredistortingyourrhythm130]

@@signalfire6 What covid?

[@Pepe_theFurfagFrog]

Even better now that German hospitals may lose electricity this winter. And the "totally unrelated to the pandemic (or its vaccines), we swear" increase of 40% in deaths reported by life insurance companies from "unknown" causes. And the fact German food manufacturers reported to their chancellor (president/P.M.) that they expect >50% of their industry to be bankrupt within 9 months due to 'green' policies. So, starvation AND freezing coming to German patients...

[@catherinehazur7336]

CARLYN SYKES. Well, transgender "treatment" and surgery for minors is a new profit center the murder hospital corporatocracy is trying to push. Though it appears to be meeting with blowback from the elements of society and culture that have retained a sense of sanity. I'm going to take my chances far away from the full blown lunatic asylums that corporate hospitals are rapidly becoming.

[@missk7001]

Incredible and absolutely unbelievable. My mom had four hip replacement surgeries and two cancer operations and was all together in the hospital for probably for 4 months in the last 35 years. All she had to pay was around 9€/day in the hospital.

[@cogen651]

Where do you live

[@catherinehazur7336]

FOUR hip replacements?

[@Oxazepam65]

For almost every country in the world, healthcare is a service to the population. In the US, it is a business self-regulated by money, offer and demand...

[@onemanenclave]

Why shouldn't every product and service be offered by the government for the population? Why shouldn't we go full socialism?

[@mantislazuli]

They've started to do the same thing in France. It's horrible, people are starting to die after waiting for 10 hours + in emergency without getting attended, since they've cut the health budget so much, and started to enforce financial profitability objectives to the hospitals which are basically competing against other hospitals in the same city / region now.

[@Oxazepam65]

@@onemanenclave Some services are cheaper and more effective when controled by the state. Education, electricity, healthcare to name a few. In province of Quebec/Canada where I live, we have the cheapest electricity and the lowest University fees in North America. We do pay a lot of taxes though, but I think it's worth it. The only downside of our healthcare is the waiting time.

[@GeoFry3]

@@Oxazepam65 so it's great because it is free, but sucks because it is free.....

[@shannon2748]

The sad thing though, is that in some countries where healthcare is much cheaper it isn't as good. For example, in South Korea, where there is a national healthcare scheme, if you need to go spend time in the hospital, the nurses are useless. They will do nothing for you but bring you medicine. Your family is expected to come take care of you. if you don't have family, you have to hire what they call a hospital helper to come bathe you, etc.

[@gtlegacy8]

Patient: Gets charged $25k for a Throat swab test.

[@robroux6074]

But your Health Insurance payed $50k for the special color effects(for accuracy), the special packaging(enviormently friendly) and the disposal fee. You just have to Co-Pay $25k. Good thing money is taken out of my check for an HSA to help me cover, glad I also signed up for Care Credit. Pay it off in 6 years and boost up my CREDIT SCORE for an overpriced( cost $42K to build w/ permits, but you paid $220,000) home in the Suburbs.

[@mohan1519]

@Kevin Prima in India the costliest 3-D CT scan is $250 and cheaper, medical tourism is now a thing here.

[@kansasthunderman1]

@Kevin Prima Health care is a rip off.

[@n3gi_]

@@mohan1519 After or before insurance?

[@mohan1519]

@@n3gi_ well without insurance the whole thing costs you that much. If you work in IT or private insurance which is not much in India, I'm sure insurance can easily cover the entire cost for your CT scan.

[@mathewjoseph2237]

Hospitals don't care about their patients at all. Extremely few care only about the patients.

[@fergus247]

That is a systemic issue, as people have their freedoms taken away, and common sense denied and standard of living dropping then caring stops and cynicism rises. Dont be surprised if the next Hitler is american.

[@lzkrishmom]

If you care, you get burned out fast.

[@user-sr8mf2vg9p]

Well than stat home, next time you need emergent care.

[@dinnerwithfranklin2451]

I suspect that relates more to the fact that hospitals have to care about doing more and more with less and less than anything intrinsic to hospitals or the workers in healthcare. To blame the workers because the government is making them do two or three jobs, and therefore they are unable to spend time actually caring for patients is to confuse the symptom for the cause

[@lzkrishmom]

@@dinnerwithfranklin2451 exactly. Healthcare workers of all levels are quitting because of burned out. These healthcare workers were trying to do too much with too little help and resources.

[@sabbath2112]

1 month after this video being released and now we need them more than ever. crazy.

[@JamesRendek]

We need them to put us on vents that damage our lungs and make sure we don't make it.

[@tjmarx]

@@JamesRendek A ventilator doesn't damage your lungs. 🤦

[@keanureeves9772]

Hello greetings from Keanu Reeves....I know it will come as a surprise to you.....Well am a very social person,I'm down to earth,have a great sense of humor with a good attitude and pleasant character not only in words but in deeds, I don't discriminate anyone and I love making friends.

[@Videobot9000]

When your surgery for wisdom teeth removal is $1600 dollars with good insurance. American healthcare is a joke.

[@imzjustplayin]

That's a cosmetic surgery and frankly $1600 isn't all that expensive for that type of surgery.

[@Videobot9000]

@@imzjustplayin I'm sure it isn't but if we compare that price to the prices payed in countries that have NHS then that's just unacceptable. Make treatments reasonable and affordable.

[@godsgirl7201]

@@imzjustplayin most Americans don't have that money just sitting around

[@JudgeDillon]

If you can do it for less than that I'd love to see it. In fact I will fly out to wherever you are to watch you try with less than $1600.

[@and-reass2719]

Plague Doktor In germany you pay monthly around 100 dollars for insurance and thats all. After that you dont pay for anything. You can visit how many doctors you want.

[@AbhijitLeekha]

I went to the ER to get stitches.. There were 40 nurses that weren't allowed to do anything but check my blood pressure.. The doctor saw me for 90 seconds. And I'm not exaggerating The bill was 12,000$ to wait in the ER for 6 hours for 6 stitches That is moronic at best.

[@howtowithelizabeth7513]

Abhijit Leekha u have to be kidding me 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@dmarogonas]

@geeksquad smarty part of it I think is liability for who puts in sutures

[@kendrajones9708]

Abhijit Leekha Bernie2020

[@crystalyeowchingching1036]

Hillary Clinton i pay you in rupees.

[@nemesiszz]

move out!

[@jgreber1790]

Like 10 years ago I took a trip to Florida to a conference that was held in Fort Lauderdale. When I was there I took the water taxi boat tour and what I could gather from the guy giving the narration was that about every second or third house on the water was owned by the CEO of some healthcare system! And you know that wasn't their primary residence!

[@Gigilovehugs]

So sad they are pilling up money when a lot of people can’t afford to pay for a doctor visit

[@michaelmaragh3919]

Insurances happily pay $3,000+/day to hospitals....But severely limit dental payments; they will pay cheap money to extract, but to replace is dismissed as "cosmetic".. a dentist told me that some dentists go bankrupt. Why?

[@wildandwonderful7069]

"Many hospitals are monopolies, and have high rates" Go figure.

[@lamzo-yi4ku]

The state should build the hospitals then hire doctors as independent contractors, force a lower price on meds and all equipments and enforce cheaper med school. They will get their money back by getting a % on each service.

[@SuperDobieGirl]

And this is why you are starting to see so many freestanding emergency rooms in shopping centers. , and physician-owned surgery centers. They set their own prices and they are competitive. They also give cash discounts to people who don't have insurance and pay cash.

[@dogan6070]

The prices are to expensive,. So no one uses the service.

[@wolfumz]

Prices don't matter- people dont go to hospitals based on prices. They go based on their insurance. The video explains uninsured patients and lower insurance payments for services made mercy hospital close.

[@spencers4121]

@Kathleen Henson Not unless they can collect on the patients, which hospitals / ER is the primary care for those uninsured and poor.

[@biohazardlnfS]

My moma recent ambulance bill was 7800 after we got into a car incident. She only stayed for about 3 hours for test.

[@jonscott234]

@@biohazardlnfS the u.s most definitely

[@GeminieCricket]

Pretty Boy Pete. TOO not to. Dumbed down America hasn’t the ability to hold down well paying jobs. Thus too many poor dumb people can not pay. Non-paying patients means doctors/nurses leave.

[@brandonwombacher2559]

Any Service is useless if people can't afford to buy them

[@Byenia]

Mississippi already had the poorest education system in the nation, the highest out-of-wedlock teen pregnancy rate, very high obesity and diabetes rate, and now they appear to be the most at risk for losing their rural hospitals (0:40 mark). Smh

[@tomc.2808]

Most of the people just cannot afford hospital stay...:-(((

[@lahabitaciondelatrapado4621]

Most people can

[@botox1603]

Why don't you vote for politicians that endorse european healthcare model?

[@sirhellhound3074]

@@botox1603 But I dont like paying less for healthcare!!!1111!

[@Q_QQ_Q]

they closing hospitals in non white areas .

[@lefthanded5473]

La habitacion del atrapado Actually people can't. If they can, they're doing it through debt.

[@ammirza8323]

Health care should never be FOR PROFIT

[@neofusionstylx]

Healthcare service is a limited resource, so it should be treated as such. I think it should be for profit. It's the crazy amount of regulations that makes it unaffordable, not the other way around

[@javiertorres9114]

A M Mirza exactly. But also the insurance companies, those are publicly owned and traded on the stock exchange. Its all about the share holders.

[@tpeterson9140]

@bad bad mc bad "When it becomes universal healthcare... no one will spend the time, money or effort to be a doctor." Lol are serious? Basically all developed nations have universal healthcare and they dont have problem with lack of doctors at all.

[@Cortesevasive]

@bad bad mc bad That's doubtfully the case, look abroad, doctors earn a minimum wage and its like 1k . Compare it to the USA, if USA would be more open about importing workforce from poor countries like eastern Europe or India or any other country they could bring down doctor salaries 5times. No country has doctors who earn that much as in USA. Also people will go to study medicine anyway, of course people from rich families are not willing to go such a painful way while they get more money just renting their property. But thankfully there is lots of poverty in the world and that a warranty of cheap well educated fully indebted workforce. But USA don't need to bring the prices down, no profits there.

[@Cortesevasive]

@@neofusionstylx Regulations make it more affordable, its economy of scale, healthcare works best if implemented in large scale, look in europe lol.

[@sciencetoday3629]

Hospitals :- Bye I am closing Corona :- Wait I am coming to save you

[@DuoLoverRed]

Actually everyone is holding off on the non emergency surgerys and treatment so Hospitals are losing tons of money right now. Not to mention since everyone is out of work due to lockdowns massive amounts of people have no health insurance anymore.

[@heraissilly]

As a Canadian, my first thought after watching this was: 'Wait, hospitals can go out of business?' My second was: sucks that the pandemic just struck, I'm sure many people would have appreciated a nearby hospital with spare beds.

[@roymaddocks3184]

Ontario has also consolidated hospitals over the past 20 or so years.

[@chaseo8032]

First thought as an American is how much in taxes in plundered heard it takes days or weeks just to see doctor and when u do major services take even longer lol ur Healthcare is a joke usa #1 because they have money and resources to fund cures haven't herd on one come from Canada in a long time

[@chaseo8032]

So tell me how universal Healthcare so great?

[@chaseo8032]

Canadians so self riotous while they siphon stuff from the rest of the world that actually functions

[@heraissilly]

@@chaseo8032 well, I can see wherever US tax money IS going, it is not going into English or spelling lessons. Now while I know you don't actually want anything explained, you will probably just ignore this, drink a 6 pack of bud light and watch superbowl replays instead, I'll still attempt to just in case you genuinely want to know. The time it takes to receive care in Canada is generally based on how urgent the need is. For example; did you just get in a car crash and you are bleeding profusely? If yes then naturally you get priority and will receive care immediately. If however, it is something that is not life threatening, or at least immediately life threatening, then it will be scheduled to occur as soon as possible, once again depending on the nature of care needed. Laser eye surgery can, for example take a while to acquire, whereas a broken arm might only take a few hours (unless it is going to cause severe and possibly fatal harm, then see the above points about urgent care). The great thing is, however, that regardless of if it is an emergency or not, it won't cost you a cent. My parents never have to worry about paying for medical checkups as they age due to our healthcare system. tl;dr you get care immediately if it is life threatening. Within hours if it's urgent but not immediately life threatening, and non life threatening things get treated when schedules allow. Regardless, it is all free.

[@weeeeeeee945]

Health is wealth, that statement can't get any more true in the US.

[@weeeeeeee945]

@Wee Chatt true, but that's just the way the system is set up. Sad but true

[@ednan9]

Wee Chatt that stupid. Today’s healthy may the sick of tomorrow. Then what?

[@ameliadiaz8040]

@@ednan9 In the future, DEAD!!!

[@SwaggerLikeUz]

dCosmic1 real talk!

[@sillymesilly]

and wealth is health!

[@VanieBabii]

All I heard is greed , money money and money Wtf happened to WELL BEING OF PEOPLE !!

[@Vlad2319]

That went to s#!t as soon as private insurance paid the big bucks greedy doctors wanted.

[@TartarianTopG]

Nero really

[@suserman7775]

Money is what makes hospitals respond to the wants of the patients. Government ruins everything with price controls and wait times that no one wants. You have every opportunity in this country to not be poor. If you are, then you must come to grips with your life situation.

[@johnsailor6081]

Nero doctors are not greedy. They honestly graduate medical school with 300k plus in debt. And they need to pay it off somehow.

[@johnuthus]

Insurance companies man, they make hospital cost $$$$$$$$$

[@adamkalb1]

I believe Dr. Kevin D'Mello. We should not think of healthcare as a business! Charging too much is exactly how to nullify the public good that healthcare provides and to defy the meaning of healthcare. Thank you for your wonderful words of wisdom at the end of this video. It is honestly troubling how some rural hospitals close down simply because they did not charge too much. December 2, 2021, 5:31am

[@jaym9846]

Eat healthy. Health starts in your gut.

[@user-vk5ux7qz8x]

The report says it clearly , the hospitals serving the poorer communities are closing! And that says it all!!!

[@markmonaco70]

It the poorest communities that wealthy families should help fund since the poor are the ones who serve the wealthy. If the poor catch a coronavirus like illness then it spread to the rich areas too

[@davidwalker2144]

FEDERAL RESERVE don't want rural guys no insurance,no health care,with silly sickness flu,cold,diarrhea,coughing just upgraded now to [E.S.M] EXPENSIVE SICKNESS is MONEY!

[@carstenlarsen8144]

@@markmonaco70 but if a poor man braekes a leg- it is of nobodys cocern ..og course not in the us- but here in denmark- the state wil take care and noone sees a bill after 4 mdr in hospitall if that was necessary..

[@markmonaco70]

@@carstenlarsen8144 I'm not sure if your for or against my argument. I think the reason why a broken leg is not serious to most is because it wont spread like wild fire to different communities. Whereas a broken leg isnt a concern to people simply because they are selfish and dont care about their fellow man. I think more kindness should spread since this world needs more good hearted people. Just my two cents tho

[@lynndwho]

But the system in general is corrupt. The private insurance companies and bigger network hospitals are marking the prices up on purpose to make huge profits and ira hard for the smaller hospitals to compete.

[@carlitoscabana7197]

Yall gonna ignore the fact that these hospitals are being baught by investors because of the prime real estate location these hospitals are

[@wantedwario2621]

I dont think you know what you are talking about

[@OmarAbdulMalikDHEdMPASPACPAPro]

Our health care system is SO broken. I've seen hospitals and clinics located in poor areas- where people tend to be sickest- close while, the ones in wealthy areas, thrive!🏨💰 The same thing happened to DC General here, in Washington, D.C. That what was a GREAT hospital. However, it served mostly poor who had little, to no insurance. The hospital was razed and, is NOW the site of luxury condos and townhouses.

[@tiaragainey9040]

I was born at D.C. General

[@OmarAbdulMalikDHEdMPASPACPAPro]

@@tiaragainey9040 kzbin.info/www/bejne/ap2xoniqaqeEarM Please the video I did. This is what's left of DCGH!😩

[@TimEssDub]

The US health care system is not broken: It is benefitting those who designed it.

[@OmarAbdulMalikDHEdMPASPACPAPro]

@@TimEssDub 😞 It certainly seems that way. Did you ever watch "Sicko", by Michael Moore?

[@elizabethhill2923]

As a health professional, I see this happening in this country a lot. Everything is going the way for the good of big business not the good of the people. So sad and pathetic.

[@douglasallen511]

"Sad and pathetic "? Please explain to us what you plan to do about it.

[@c-train3630]

Even Apple has been like that for years.

[@wenl4901]

Hospitals are to serve the community not the other way around. Greed is going rot this country away!

[@henrythegreatamerican8136]

Boomers brought and end to the american dream by supporting Reaganomics for 40 years. Millennials will be the first generation worst off than previous generations thanks to the boomers.

[@Kev376]

Then make a hospital to serve the community, don't force something someone else built into something else. Build it yourself

[@chris0000924]

You know any doctors that'll work for free

[@generalaccount6531]

The funny thing is that if they truly want the money in the long run, they should have made pricing and insurance more transparent, and more affordable, so people would come in more frequently. Would you ever buy a phone if its price was anywhere from $300 to $3000 but we won't tell you unless you've used the phone? This is short-term greediness and the healthcare as it is right now deserves it.

[@Beachdudeca]

it actually means that local towns . cities , counties will need to raise Taxes and buy the hospitals and cover the costs not covered by Med4All themselves

[@fly2174]

What’s the point of building hospitals and educating ppl to become doctors when the majority can’t afford it!!

[@JudgeDillon]

And if you are on welfare or don't work you can suddenly afford unlimited ER visits. I wonder if our taxes were cut in half if we could afford it then

[@thewhizkid3937]

I thought about that too lmao.

[@wyorose5965]

I have been in health care for over 40 years. C.T. Was brand new. The advent of Medicare saw a bit of double dipping by some physicians and hospitals. I remember lonely elderly come in over Christmas so they would be alone. To combat this DRGs came in giving “finite” number of days per diagnosis, only to see people re admitted with continued or worsening symptoms. Specialist started to drive care, with your family doctor who also delivered you baby and do your gallbladder surgery became a thing of the past. Government regulations, good, bad, indifferent started to create an over burden in administration layers making big bucks. When I started we had department heads and a CEO. We now have a whole suite of administrative people whom most in the trenches of front line care have no idea what they do. The first thing that seems to get hit when hospitals get into crises mode is staff, the very people who make the machine go. Over worked, under paid, people left the field. I watched as the lack to the primary care physicians turn ER rooms into 24 hour out patient clinics. Treating things that could be done in the office, treated in the most expensive “doctor office” and every test run as a stat. Technology driven imaging increased the cost beyond simple X-rays. Pretty much everyone who came in had a C.T. Radiation is accumulative, there is a lifetime dose limit. Treatment has turned into a blanket testing to avoid law suits. So where do we go from here. I am now semi retired, as the political environment detracts from the real reason people enter healthcare, to care for their fellow man who are under the weather. Being semiretired I get to do exactly what I want to do what I trained to do, take care of the patient, without worrying about the bureaucratic crap outside the door.

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

Thank you for taking the time to record this part of history.

[@angiew1222]

Milliman and interquarl out here killing people…drs can’t deliver good care and ins doesn’t want to pay unless you follow their rules, and they aren’t physically treating the patients…. Insurance has taken away the right and ability for patients to be treated individually with treatments that work for their specific bodies ☹️

[@seejam2271]

@@angiew1222 Very true, insurance nowadays are the one treating patients, not the physician which is sad. And it is so difficult to fight these companies. It is heartbreaking to see that some hospitals are closing. Some survive due to the mercy of people who donates and yet these insurance companies are the one who makes big profits.

[@angiew1222]

It’s super sad 😢. I’ve seen patients who have been on medications for years, they switch insurance companies and the new company says “we want you to try this drug before we approve what you have been taking for the past 10 years because just because that’s our policy before approval” it’s absolutely sickening. All a game, all about money. And this goes both ways… people who don’t qualify for transplants end up getting them, because they bash the insurance company on social media, and they will approve it just to keep things quiet….

[@garytorresani8846]

As a retired health care provider, I worked for a major self contained hospital group in Ca. As a mental health therapist, I saw our work load continuing to increase. The group was cited by the state numerous times for not providing appts in a timely manner and being understaffed. They just increased the work load further without hiring new staff. Lately, they said they could not find new staff because people were leaving health care and therapists were not available to be hired. No kidding, after what Covid put everyone through. I retired just before Covid hit. I saw my colleagues get super stressed out and retired out or left the profession due to the continuing pressure. And don’t get me started on unvaccinated people who got Covid and treated the ER staff like crap because they heard on right wing radio that Covid was a gov conspiracy. Health care is a right and should not be privatized by profit making companies. Period. Americans need to grow up and allow our citizens to have what every other developed democratic republic has: universal health care. To do otherwise based on fear of government taking your rights is immature and selfish.

[@bindasguy3666]

Next= Why US medical colleges are closing

[@Camelotsmoon]

Or just colleges in general

[@chrisbooboo3840]

And all our doctors get their degrees in other countries or come from other countries.

[@RedBeardDog]

@@chrisbooboo3840 Actually this is happening with teachers.

[@Q_QQ_Q]

@RedBeardDog doctors too . people buying degrees from other countries then work as doctors in their own hospitals .

[@aa55claa55cl]

Then we need insurance to pay for school or there is no public hospital

[@Will_Salcedo]

"Why U.S. Hospitals Are Closing" Easy nobody can afford it and it's going to get worse. The only profitable hospitals are in major cities because extremely wealthy people live there.

[@rekwinchester7509]

@Justice9111 urban areas cost less than city bud

[@grandmalovesmebest]

and why did we pay for this all our working lives and now pay again w our SS income and then pay extra for other hmos and then pay copays and then get no treatment but drugs and never get cured of ANYTHING?!

[@Blessedbears]

Amen and amen! Medicine kills... real food heals! Look up dr John Bergman and watch all his videos! Amazing!

[@bobbys2643]

@Justice9111 uh.. so you're telling me the guys on wall street are pot smoking liberals and not money hungry republikkkans? Yeah.. ok. You've obviously never been to a city before.

[@bobbys2643]

@Justice9111 oh and you're a Christian. That explains it. When are you going to start giving all you own to the poor like the Bible ACTUALLY says??

[@robinperronjones5024]

There are some services for the human race where it’s essential that they be sustainable, economic, standardised, efficient and available, examples are medical and energy, unfortunately in the US it’s a profiteering, greedy and broken system

[@aps-c1766]

There is 3 basic the most essential for humanity. Healthcare, transportation and food security. If you fail just 1 those. That not going to be great

[@danw6014]

It's also heavily regulated and monopolies.

[@Mane_ea]

911 an ambulance is on its way, please have your credit card ready.

[@manufacturedreality8706]

Signs of a great society.... 1. People are healthy, both physically and mentally. 2. People are well educated.

[@ArkOmen1]

Welp, that ain't us!

[@ArkOmen1]

@Jay Santos Ha ha. Don't forget, being educated takes initiative and hard work. It doesn't just get downloaded into people's heads automatically.

[@kriswingert1662]

Then there are those of us who got an education, went to college, work our butt off and still cannot make a decent living for our families. It is not so easy there bud!

[@ArkOmen1]

@@kriswingert1662 Well yes I agre with that, but this is because of a deeply flawed monetary system.

[@krishnanunnimadathil8142]

Signs of a great society: 1. People are individually responsible to one another. 2. People place duties to one another above rights.

[@dinnerwithfranklin2451]

I think the problem at it's root is that hospitals are operated as businesses.

[@mayainverse9429]

if they wernt it would cost way more to run. the problem is by nature modern medicine is expensive

[@kateajurors8640]

@@mayainverse9429 no the issues is that our country as Americans is allowing HUGE overcharges prices .

[@bolshevikrasta1027]

@@mayainverse9429 modern medicine is expensive? lol you just pay for greed, they operate on the disease model they don't want the cure. hospitals being run by investment bankers.

[@JudgeDillon]

Yeah, we should have the people who can't pave the roads and who are $23T in Debt run them instead. *Sigh*

[@bubba842]

@@JudgeDillon the reason for the debt is because they don't tax the wealthy corporations that make Billions of dollars a year. Instead the give the wealthiest corporations in the world subsidies. eg. Exxon Mobile, Conoco Phillips.

[@StationOnLife]

What is sad is despite having the latest medical technology and medicine; yet, there’s people still dying unnecessarily because the lack of healthcare insurances.

[@Loveroffood41]

What's also kind of sad is that because of my health problems that I have I am a pharmaceutical companies dream but insurance companies nightmare because of how many times I go to the hospital I went to the hospital five times last year and none of it was for covid-19

[@kerripendragon4888]

Billions given to foreign countries and no healthcare for the people. Sad.

[@emelinabonilla5557]

kerri pendragon and TRILLIONS for war

[@wesbecool]

Billions given in tax breaks and no healthcare for the people. Sad indeed.

[@15seconds3]

Over U$2 trillion spent on useless wars and America's bridges and roads are crumbling. No high speed rail in the US and 30,000 kms were built (with all the infrastructure that entails) in 5 years in China.. Sad.

[@zusiphesikayi2390]

Money given as aid to foreign countries serves America more than it does those countries.

[@kerripendragon4888]

@@zusiphesikayi2390 How? Americans have crumbling bridges, very old trains , very old school buses, no healthcare, nasty huge corporations , population drop, huge credit Card debts, college debts, divorces, rising scams- crime and millions of homeless people with no shelter. Talk about the richest country but see how the ordinary people are treated like crap by insurance corporations, all sorts of bills and little pay for 60 hrs of work. Sounds more like a dictatorship by corporations in disguise...not capitalism.

[@whospilledmybeans]

US Citizens: Earns 7 dollars an hour, not eligible and can not afford insurance Doctors: lol ok so 500 for your insulin meds or no deal Elitist who own the hospital: so we steal all the money and ruin the economy and now all the sudden y’all wanna act poor

[@radicalbarrel2729]

Who spilled My beans I think you’re mad at pharmacies

[@Kiyometa]

Its not the doctors themselves that set the price on medicines, its big pharma.

[@radicalbarrel2729]

The Internet Is For Cats it’s more so the idiots than the degree

[@Resi1ience]

@bad bad mc bad generally a moral idiot, or an idiot who just barely got out of college and/or high school

[@kerripendragon4888]

@bad bad mc bad illegal immigrants and ex convicts ...etc

[@PritpalSingh-kx5hg]

Lol no body would imagine this trend will change in very next month

[@jasonyang867]

Don't worry, they will readjust the hospitals for emergency ONLY!!! All others will becoming small clinics!!! And for those patients, if they can stay home, the Home Health Aides will come to their home and help them!!!

[@Lathenboucher1534]

To call hospitals ‘businesses’ sounds weird to my Canadian mind

[@joannajamerson35]

I want to move to Canada

[@PetrGladkikh]

People in US call everything a business, even jails. I think it is a temporary fluke of history that police and army are not privatized yet.

[@spangst]

@Down the Canadian healthcare outcomes are way better at a fraction of the cost! You need to stay uninformed though...Republicans count on it!

[@Firebirdca]

@Down the Strange you go in debt to go to to a hospital in the U.S. and loose your shirt and your home. As in Canada I do not have terrible health care, had 2 complete knee surgeries, physio therapy covered, no cost. Had also a heart specialist, urologist look after me no cost. All testing that I needed be it X ray, MRI, ultra sounds and the list goes on. An in a modern hospital with all the bells and whistles of modern equipment just a little over 5 yrs old. An I am a pensioner, regardless our age young and old we are covered. In Toronto we have one of the leading children Hospital. at least here in Canada, I or other Canadians don't go broke and into the poor house, we take care of everybody rich or poor as equals. Especially our elderly and our cherished children. No one is turned away. You better do a little more research you are very very misinformed. Oh as to how we can afford all this is we bite the bullet and pay a little more in taxes.and its worth every penny.

[@michaelransom5841]

​@Down the I live in Canada, unbelievably good health care here. I tore the ligaments in my knee last spring, at home in my own back yard. Went to emergency, no wait at all, had an MRI while i was there, surgery within a week, was walking again the day of the surgery. received excellent physio and recovery treatment. All treatments including the hospital were minutes from my house. Was back to work 3 weeks after the accident. Within 3 months you would never know I ever hurt my knee, and it didn't cost me a penny! My 90 year old grandfather diagnosed with lung cancer 3 months ago, the cancer was inoperable, so they used a barrage of cutting edge chemo and radiation options. there is now no sign of the cancer and he's feeling great. Similar stories from every family member and friend I know. Honestly, if somebody is trying to tell you that Canada's health care is somehow inferior, they are lying to you. and the only reason i can think of for why, they must be trying to manipulate you.

[@deathless3518]

The US isn’t even prepared for a pandemic. Smh

[@jessejennings3828]

Dont let a few closures fool you. There are tens of thousands more. I live in Tulsa and there is like 20 alone here.

[@Aden_III]

Jesse Jennings No. America is not ready for a pandemic. Your limited knowledge of the subject doesn’t change that fact

[@jessejennings3828]

@@Aden_III statements as such deserve proof. And all i said is that there is alot of hoapitals still. Are you fkn stupid?

[@kassrripples3659]

Deathless BAM

[@zero-pantsu-samus3203]

@@jessejennings3828 Well, I guess we are about to see the reality, we are in the brink of the pandemic. Good luck!

[@LexiMoe-eg4yl]

Funny how this video was posted a month before the Covid-19 break out🤔

[@waaazupd1948]

I do everything I can to stay out of the hospitals. They have to make money to stay in business. Can't keep the doors open otherwise. It is a for profit business, even if they claim to be a "non-profit. The only difference between the two is that the non-profit doesn't pay taxes. You go the hospital, even with good insurance, you're still gonna pay out a lot out of pocket. Stay healthy as much as you can.

[@lisamccray9079]

I try to stay healthy to don't want to give them any more money than I have to hospitals charge you enough as it is

[@esmeraldagreen1992]

When doctors were paid by patients they had to keep prices low so people could pay. It was when 3rd parties came in that things went south.

[@sageryan5819]

Antonina MacNeish You are absolutely correct. Prior to Medicare all medical services were reasonable. No $12 aspirins. Now that is probably $32+.

[@richardfleer1905]

Absolutely. Now most insurance policies are managed care and group policies, primarily from other businesses. Supply and demand. Also, many hospitals in rural and low income areas aren't properly sized to scale. Less square feet means less expense to operate. Also, employment and healthcare require complete separation. Medicare for All.

[@randyjohnson9772]

OLYGARCHY USING INSURANCE COMPANIES TO TERRORISE THE SHEEPLES

[@onatone]

It's the fact Americans see healthcare as a payable service and not like every other country as a right. If only we had a system where we had a government that worked for people that can bargain and challenge costs to keep costs down and due to the economics of scale lower overall cost of medicine and care to citizens. But that would "socialism". Now we have large merged hospitals to stay afloat, increase care costs and insurances that increase costs to those insured. The USA should be ashamed but we are so cucked by insurance/prescription companies even tho the USA gov still gives these companies handouts for R&D.

[@smokelord2002]

@MultiLaughs88 yes, they negotiate exorbitant rates that no one would pay for normally and then act like they are doing you a favor.

[@oscaryuen311]

You should also do an interview about the health insurance and see why hospitals are shutting down

[@karlabritfeld7104]

I know a lot of people with private health insurance just won't go to the doctor because the deductibles are so high. It's like not having any insurance at all so why bother?

[@IWatchYouTubez]

"... hospitals going out of business" - why are they businesses?!

[@anonasdf2570]

Raymond Wong watch the video.

[@fergus247]

Caus no-one wants to work for free?

[@rubyscott6685]

Raymond Wong because America uses a predominantly capitalistic economic model. Hospitals as businesses suits this model better. In addition, Americans are taught not to ask what their country can do for them, but what they can do for their country. As a result, few demands are made by the citizenry on the government to provide accessible healthcare for all.

[@rockycomet4587]

Because that's the best way.

[@seekeroftheuniverse2657]

@@fergus247 the government should pay the doctors and nurses like in the rest of the world!

[@TempestBear06]

I’m so tired of hearing “if everyone gets “free” health insurance the country will go bankrupt”... meanwhile billionaires are WHINING that they can’t AFFORD to pay taxes which would help pay for health insurance for people who are dying because they ACTUALLY can’t afford to go to the doctor

[@blinkybill2198]

Space Force coming to the US soon

[@mikebostic9518]

I had a hospital in queens that closed almost a decade ago honestly don't think people go as much you'll see less big hospitals going forward.

[@chieradione]

I agree in one of the comments that greed should be punished... but it’s even harder to punish wrongdoings when the judge isn’t even fair

[@jacobgoldenofficial4321]

Next... "Why universities are disappearing "

[@coachtanishamarie]

North Eastern Roberts right that’s next

[@troyc5994]

North Eastern Roberts if Bernie Sanders won he will make our colleges free by raising tax by 250% across the board. Yeah it’s going to be free!!!

[@leskobrandon6950]

Good riddance. University's just churn out more socialist idiots that want everything for free anyway. I was one of the brainwashed fools, until I had to earn a living without big Daddy government and Mommy and Daddy to take care of me. Free is not free.

[@Macheako]

@@leskobrandon6950 lol right. It was FreeDOM that we wanted, not just FREE 🤣🤣🤣

[@leskobrandon6950]

@@Macheako Yep, and our freedoms are challenged every day by brainwashed, endocrinated kids, old enough to vote for "feeling" but not old enough to know real world "facts". Too many of us left our kids to be brainwashed by public school. Now we are paying the price.

[@tyrannyterminator4179]

Overcharge for simple services and you will always get closed down.

[@suzanne_atkinson]

The overcharge isn't for simple services....it's for the overhead of everything that's out of control. The administrators and CEOs get paid from the money that you get charged for a simple service. If the tech makes $15/hr, the nurse $60/hour and the doc $150/hr...how much of your bill goes to the CEO who earns $12million / year? (answer...most of it)

[@davidwalker2144]

FEDERAL RESERVE don't want rural guys no insurance,no health care,with silly sickness flu,cold,diarrhea,coughing just upgraded now to [E.S.M] EXPENSIVE SICKNESS is MONEY!

[@tiffanywilliams1470]

From & live in Philadelphia. Couldn't BELIEVE when Hannaman Hospital closed!!! Has been a trademark hospital here my ENTIRE life...I'm 38. I'mma be honest, wasn't my preference (I go 2 Jefferson instead, better hospital), but STILL was shocked!!! Couldn't believe it. As it's said, nothing is definite but the Lord. 💯🙏❤💯

[@JohnVAsiaTeacher]

I think it's very obvious why they're closing. As insurance costs rise to unaffordable levels, less people become insured and so less people use hospitals. If the US carries on like this, in 20 years time health will be a luxury item of the rich. Thank God here in the UK we have the NHS.

[@Shriharsh2]

While i was at Mumbai airport i met an American , when he told me that he was here for medical treatment i was shocked. Why would someone from first world country come to India for treatment? And then i discovered about American healthcare system 😬😬

[@tanyavolansky5042]

As I lay here with a likely case of phenomena waiting for my immune system to do its thing but don’t want to pay to go it to get it treated... rofl sounds right XD This is why I got my MS in herbal medicine and a cert in massage therapy lolz >.

[@TheBandana1969]

What you saw was India's huge new industry, medical tourism. Top quality hospitals in India are able to provide medical care of US standards at about one tenth the cost. They throw in a nice tour package for the family of the patient. Patients in UK fed up of waiting for the NHS doctors to care for them come to India for treatment. Patients from other countries where sophisticated medical facilities do not exist also come to India.

[@chiron13]

@@TheBandana1969 , meanwhile most Indians cannot afford these hospitals.😁

[@destroyedsoul1791]

chiron that's the bitter truth.

[@biohazardlnfS]

@@destroyedsoul1791 I guess same issue as the US than RIP the world

[@E.T.GARAGE]

I always thought Hospitals closed because most people can't afford to pay their medical bills.

[@the_hanged_clown]

oh they still get their money. other companies make quite a profit from buying your debt from the hospital.

[@alexh5391]

hang da clown they can’t get their money from those people because they don’t have jobs so the hospital closes can’t pay for Hydro property taxes employees it all adds up

[@johnuthus]

well insurance companies are a scam

[@davidwalker2144]

FEDERAL RESERVE don't want rural guys no insurance,no health care,with silly sickness flu,cold,diarrhea,coughing just upgraded now to [E.S.M] EXPENSIVE SICKNESS is MONEY!

[@johnuthus]

@Claire jokes on you I don't have insurance nor will I use it until I'm over 30

[@lucasmiranda9578]

When i was a kid i was had malnutrition( from eating mostly sugary food), barely had any sunlight(i just played video games) and drank a lot of cow milk so i was pale white and had severe asthma all i needed to do was correct those and i would be fine but instead i was placed on inhalers for various years and even on a asthma machine that i had to breath into for a hour a day or my asthma could act up. I thankfully went to south america and corrected those things. And now i rarely need my inhaler.

[@abigailpena5950]

I have over 15 different diagnosed diseases, syndromes, etc that I deal with daily, if I'm not close to the multiple doctors I need to live a sorta normal life I have to move, it's just not an option I can shrug off, it's my physical health, my mental health and my life on the line, that is a risk I just can't take.

[@keanureeves9772]

Hello greetings from Keanu Reeves....I know it will come as a surprise to you.....Well am a very social person,I'm down to earth,have a great sense of humor with a good attitude and pleasant character not only in words but in deeds, I don't discriminate anyone and I love making friends.

[@seraphcreed840]

"AH-CHOO!" Hopsital: Kleenex? Yes please. Hospital: that will be 20$ 😌🤑

[@sarahstauffer1]

That sums it up

[@bobbys2643]

$30 for ONE Advil. Crazy. $20 for a little alcohol swab.

[@kchilz32]

Bring your own Kleenex Advil Tylenol and anything you can get over the counter that way you can refuse theirs

[@Justin14999]

nah lol $200 for tylenol

[@taylorjackson7661]

Fr! I got in a minor car accident & went to the hospital only cause i was in a different part of my state 4 hrs from my primary doctor the doctor only toched my back & said it was a strain got the bill it was $435!!!!!! For him to touch my back! I had insurance to medicare (amerigroup)

[@ericpaulgoldie]

Short Answer: Greed and ignorance.

[@coolbeans6148]

No you idiot. Hospitals dont merge or monopolize because greed, the do so for survival. It's too expensive to run a hospital.

[@Oblio1942]

I work at a hospital in the pharmacy. The amount of things that just get thrown away is mind boggling. Im not saying that we should reuse stuff, but when you see a $500+ inhaler just get scrapped with one or two uses, and thats not even the expensive stuff, its wild

[@SilverWatcher.]

The president had to yell at the mailmen because they tried running it like a business. The usps is not a business nor should it be run as such. Now how come no president is yelling at big business hospitals 🏥.

[@agalah408]

My father developed appendicitis and was rushed to hospital. He has no health insurance. He was there for 2 weeks getting acute care, then they were able to send him home. He made a complete recovery. What was his total bill? Nothing. He's in Australia. 3 years ago he had cataract removal done to both eyes. Also free. There's plenty of preventive medicine. Anyone over 50 gets a free bowel cancer kit sent to them every second year. If it tests positive, they get an endoscopy check. Also free. This is one of the main reasons why Australians live (on average) five years longer than Americans. Watching these American videos of profit driven medicine are so sad for us to contemplate.

[@Tm-bj2sq]

Literally everything in America is for profit

[@Dangic23]

When healthcare is a for profit system, then its totally normal to expect hospitals to close.

[@tj8024]

It’s bc of wealth inequality, not capitalism

[@VinceroAlpha]

TJ actually it is because of capitalism, if a hospital is burning through more money then it gets, then you need to reduce its operating costs or close it down and cut your losses. That’s literally capitalism 101.

[@Dangic23]

@@VinceroAlpha True. And wealth inequality is a component of capitalism also.

[@lashlarue7924]

I have a freaking finance MBA, and I agree. Financing a hospital system with a for-profit capital structure is a recipe for sexual assault at gunpoint by special interest groups. They should all be shot in the street.

[@Nishith8]

@@tj8024 wealth inequality is a cause of capitalism

[@kostathomas8732]

Having hospitals as businesses is just wrong, wrong on SO many levels. Profiting off services that people need to live while ruining those who can't afford to pay. If I'm having a heart attack I can't just refuse an ambulance, is a cheaper ambulance heading that way? The free market does not work in this industry.

[@murraycrichton2001]

About ten years ago had an accident, broke pelvis and thigh bone. 7 weeks in hospital didn't pay a thing. I live in the UK. They even gave me a lift home and follow up care.

[@dantae666]

But you expect me to earn the same as stocking the shelves at tesco to do it. Not happening and is why when I qualify I will be focusing 100% private care and why we have massive number of vacancies

[@Zapruderfilm1963]

I’m American, born and raised here. The single largest embarrassment for us is our healthcare system. Single payer WILL be instituted eventually because the current system is not sustainable. For profit healthcare is disgusting and has been a huge black eye for this country.

[@whatsdrugs]

"Going out of business"

[@Thelifeofgisel]

It’s a business like it or not

[@krismine99]

I think it's fine if it's a business, but maybe heavier regulation is needed sometimes

[@elizabethwambui9901]

True Brian, i get what you're tryn to say.

[@BeastOrGod]

This is why Healthcare should never be run as business.

[@Splitspine1]

i am just so glad to hear how many are going out - now lets ring back herbalism

[@tasseiviews2947]

I feel like healthcare has been so commercialized in the US over the last half century, that the common good is not respected and protected enough anymore.

[@timergooff]

In summary, hospitals in poor neighborhoods lose money and close down

[@inachu]

A deeper truth. In california they closed down from the amount of illegals that flooded the hospitals.

[@nemo663]

The Savage capitalism can't have empathy.

[@anatnas9340]

@@nemo663 It's not about capitalism. It's corrupt DemocRATS that adopt policies which further the problem.

[@DanafoxyVixen]

@@anatnas9340 dems aren't in power at the moment, your blaming ghosts...

[@anatnas9340]

@@DanafoxyVixen I'm talking about all the blue states. That's mostly where the problem lies.

[@electricroo]

Before retirement I worked as an electrician in hospital maintenance 45yrs. I've seen it all. But one thing that is overlooked is the huge cost of maintaining the building. Over the years I've seen the costs of maintenance rise due to several factors. Every year due to technology building systems replacement increased. Every change in governmental regulations and codes causes huge expenditures to update the building. If one wants to keep JACHO scores high, cost to do that is high. If one wants to keep receiving government money, criteria must be met or funding will be taken away. If you research you will see all the small rural hospitals that were created with the Hill-Burton act have closed due to lack of funding to be able to keep up. It's too bad that at this point only the large corporate health care systems have the resources to keep up. Not only in areas of the latest care, but in the mechanics and operations of the building itself. We had a manager who stated that every department was a spoke in the wheel. I argued that that was partially true. The Engineering Dept. in any hospital is the hub that holds it together. Because without the building operations with it's many systems and the Engineering Dept that keeps it running there would be no health care system.

[@peterdurnien9084]

I'm glad I live in the UK where we have the NHS.

[@toxicwaste920]

People are staying home and drinking herbal meds. Going to Mexico for surgeries. When I had my gallbladder out, hospital billed my insurance 24k, for a 1.5hr operation outpatient. My supposedly room where I was held for like 2hrs cost $2500. SMH.

[@jamesgleeson6538]

thats crazy...there is no way that should cost so much ...yet i believe you after hearng about the difficulties in the states over the years ...Must be getting ridiculous in the states...glad i decided not to stay

[@UnrealZii]

> SMH That's the name of a hospital! Ironically. www.smh.com/

[@hatimarrazi9605]

Malaysia country, $0.25 for case like you in Government Hospital..

[@user-kr2ty9vk5n]

A lot goes into surgeries, even if they are 1.5 hrs. You were cared for by numerous nurses, given anesthesia by someone who trained for 4 years, and had your gallbladder removed by someone who trained for 9 years minimum using special equipment.

[@abdulrhmanalazmi1259]

My government charge me 0$ if they can’t treat you they send you abroad

[@alwaysyouramanda]

Our local hospital is always crowded. Imagine these hospitals during this pandemic?

[@robertcuminale1212]

I made a rare trip to the ER in my local hospital. I waited 11 hours to be seen and tested to find out I had Diverticulitis. The ER waiting room had about 80% Hispanics in it none of whom had insurance. I was sitting close enough to listen to them answer that question about insurance. My knowledge of Spanish makes that possible. No entity can survive without revenue to pay employees, purchase machinery to test and treat patients, buy food for the patients to eat, etc. People who say just let the government pay for it all don't realize it's the taxpayers who are doing the paying or don't care. It's just another entitlement and they care who pays.

[@alwaysyouramanda]

Robert Cuminale it’s a good thing they charge 100 times what procedures cost them. If Americans didn’t rely on insurance, no one could pay! Well, thankfully we have the Uber rich covering all of us. (They own us and the people our Statue of Liberty mentions.. referring to as garbage.) The French knew us so well!

[@alwaysyouramanda]

For how much they gassed it up, the whole “checks and balances” thing was a wild flop.

[@tomast1323]

Great timing guys..

[@dano3523]

"A series of mergers and acquisitions have created mammoth hospital groups". Take out hospital and put in agriculture, pharmaceutical, communications, etc. We pretty much live in an oligarchy and with politicians sucking up to their special interest sugar daddies, it is. not going to get better.

[@astrofrk]

When my hospital discovered I had no insurance, they kicked me out of bed when I was still dizzy and hallucinating. I didn't know where I was and hit the side of a door, knocking me on my back. Some nurse asked me if I was okay and I told her "This hospital thinks I am". America has the best healthcare system on earth but only for those who can afford it.

[@FrVitoBe]

lucky its that good, when you r about to die they can save you, if you have the money. anything else go away.

[@johnsantini3382]

Yuniko Yato very scary people lost their soul for money

[@christianlibertarian5488]

You are wrong about your own care. The doctors and nurses taking care of you have no idea what kind of insurance you have. What is more, they don't care. They want to get you out of the hospital fast, true. But they want to get everyone out fast.

[@wscottwatson]

I was not aware that the USA actually has a "healthcare system". Other than Medicare and Medicaid, there is a private medical system but CARE is not actually part of that.

[@christianlibertarian5488]

@@wscottwatson In a sense, you are correct. Each insurance company plan is, in effect, its own system.

[@halfdevil2585]

*Hospital closed* *How, When they charge about 10k* *dollars for the Delivery of a BABY* *Crazy*

[@andrewcampbell3100]

It should be for free

[@NoName-mm6gh]

10K! That's insane

[@Scott-by9ks]

$10,000???!! How did you get off so cheap? I had a buddy that had health insurance and his out of pocket was $35,000!

[@dr.livesey7595]

I'm from germany and I can't believe that you guys have to pay for that :(( That's inhumane

[@ziadalmohamady2871]

its not about how much they're making in comparison to how much margin the hospital makes per delivery, besides most hospitals lose money when the government is involved in the billing system with Medicare & Medicaid

[@albongo3949]

How out of touch are the politicians that all these citizens can articulate these issues more and more. Loving the information

[@teoteous]

Words like 'mergers' and 'acquisitions' should not be in the same sentence with hospitals and health care....

[@ThomsiEntertainment]

I hate hearing "hospital" and "for-profit" in the same sentence... but maybe just because i am an european

[@Coolrunnings007]

THOMSI yeah but “Europe” and “defense spending” are a couple of words who hopefully will become more common in the same sentence

[@unoki99]

​@@Coolrunnings007 oh don't worry that is changing quickly. Sweden for instance (not even a part of NATO) went from "we will never go into war again, no one has to go to military school" to "we will force all youths at the age of 18 to send in health information and what field of defence they would prefer to work in" in just 1 year. I grew up being taught that peace will be ever lasting in Sweden, then the year I turned 18 that policy changed. but also: Europe doesn't need to put literally one third of our whole GDP on "defence" since we don't need to defend any "first place economy". Have fun with the trade war anyways B)

[@louismartignoli6603]

coolrunnings no. Look at Europe, they do not provoke wars unlike Trump. Europe spends on its healthcare because it wants to help. The US spends on war because they solely want to gasconade all while looking threatening. It’s stupid. Should we really spend more on killing people than saving people? You are in the wrong buddy. Europe doesn’t need to spend a ton on defence because we want to conserve peace, not spark them. It’s truly sad that whilst there are Americans living in poverty, dying because they cannot afford healthcare, struggling to live, the government spends more than the next ten countries on defence. You and your country are just sad.

[@annando]

​@@Coolrunnings007 well, as long as a "is lowering" is in between, I'm all for it.

[@Coolrunnings007]

LOUIS 2005 are you serious. That was the most stupid thing I read today. Europe has been the sole major reason that tension with Russia are at high right now. If you didn’t give the Ukrainians false hope they would have still probably kept there country together. But you want to stick it to the Russians and created a mess and tried to drag President Trump into it too. Nah fam that’s all you guys.