From neonatal and primary care to emergency medicine, kids got lower-quality care than their white peers, researchers found. Disparities include longer waits and less pain medication after surgery.
From neonatal and primary care to emergency medicine, kids got lower-quality care than their white peers, researchers found. Disparities include longer waits and less pain medication after surgery.
Everyone is required to have insurance in the US or they face a tax penalty. The ACA was so hamstrung by GOP pols that all it actually did was force Americans to buy insurance with low premiums but absurdly high deductibles, copays, and out-of-pocket costs. For many Americans, their health insurance exists only for catastrophic things, because being in debt for a $5000 deductible is a lot better than having $100,000 in medical debt, despite the fact they can’t afford the deductible either. Many can’t afford preventative healthcare that many of us take for granted, because for them the choice is the $50 copay for a checkup or buying food for their family. Healthcare outcomes for them are abysmally low.
This is frustrating. The person that cuts my hair is self employed. They don’t have insurance, so medical care other than emergency is basically just toughing it out or calling in favors from their medpro clients.
I’d think most of us are favor of catastrophic dept prevention due to medical emergency, so that was a good start. Still not offording regular visits or getting a prescription for something easily treated is frustrating in a first world nation economy.
As long as you stay super poor and make no effort to fix your situation, you can get Medicaid/care. So we have that going for us…