I’d like to know other non-US citizen’s opinions on your health care system are when you read a story like this. I know there are worse places in the world to receive health care, and better. What runs through your heads when you have a medical emergency?
A little background on my question:
My son was having trouble breathing after having a cold for a couple of days and we needed to stop and take the time to see if our insurance would be accepted at the closest emergency room so we didn’t end up with a huge bill (like 2000$-5000$). This was a pretty involved ~10 minute process of logging into our insurance carrier, and unsuccessfully finding the answer there. Then calling the hospital and having them tell us to look it up by scrolling through some links using the local search tool on their website. This gave me some serious pause, what if it was a real emergency, like the kind where you have no time to call and see if the closest hospital takes your insurance.
Crowd source if need be? No other country, even poorer ones have this issue?
What the hell you guys on about.
I don’t think you understand how it works in the US, nor how much time/effort which the working poor simply do not have. There’s a reason why most in politics are rich there.
Rich people in other countries want universal healthcare.
Okay?
They can run on a mandate of universial healthcare but the US public just don’t care enough.
No, their system is gamed.