Why are most Americans unaware of how horrible their healthcare is?

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America has the worst healthcare system of any developed nation, but Americans seem oblivious to that fact and many think that we have the best doctors. Why do Americans live in a bubble?

WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

I mean... I think in general, most Americans seem to be very triggered when you suggest that we aren’t the absolute best at pretty much anything. It’s like talking to an irrational fan of a sports team. “Your team sucks, my team rules”, that’s all they know, and it literally fucks with their psyche to suggest anything to the contrary. It’s fine to think well of where you live, but don’t wrap so much personal pride into it, you didn’t “earn” living here, it was just chance that you were born here or anywhere, whether it’s fortunate or unfortunate. So yeah, I think the healthcare is good here in terms of its ceiling of quality, but the costs are absolutely outrageous, and that renders the whole system pretty average, in total.

red324 · Accepted Answer

They're very sneaky about the way they word the health insurance. EG: Copay, deductible, premium? wtf? Lots of employer paid health insurance you just pay for. Like they have good benefits, but they also have like $800 come out of their paycheck every month. I just have a standard $6000 deductible. I pay $275/month and this pays for most medicines. Now if you end up in the emergency room and have $100,000 I have to pay $6000.00 plus my monthly $275 payment. Seems fine to me. You hope you don't ever need it, they hope they don't have to pay.

Ms_Vanderquack · Accepted Answer

Are you kidding? It’s been a huge political issue for at least the past decade.

Dazed0N0Confused · Accepted Answer

Have you met americans? Half of us are dumb as rocks.

TremorJay · Answer

I don't have the whole document in my hand, but it looks like insurance is paying 99%. The balance due is under $1,900. This is also not an average bill. This person had a lot of health problems. Also, Medical bills are interest free. If you can't pay them, you're just going to have an impacted credit score. You can still go about your life as usual.

ThePolishKnight37 · Answer

We are aware, the pharmaceutical companies and corporate hospitals and their lobbyist own our politicians so nothing will change until we get rid of campaign funding.

hellionthesagereborn · Answer

We don't though? Our survival rates are five times higher, our life time costs are less then other nations, we have far lower wait times (which is the difference between life and death in many cases (having to wait six months to see a doctor when you have cancer could and frequently is lethal), we have lower infant and maternal death rates (if you bother to actually compare how we collect data) etc. etc. It is infinitly superior to all other healthcare systems in the world which is why people come to america for medical care while americans rarely leave the US for medical care.

jshm2 · Answer

You're confused.

America is the only developed country which doesn't have a federal healthcare system - it has lots of local healthcare businesses.

Hence why it's got the worst health per capita in all the world. As you are only useful if you're living like a pig, and paying insurance for the privilege.

johnsmithjs · Answer

My healthcare is awesome better then any other country I know. There is just one thing, you need to earn your healthcare in this country by having a job. Everyone that has an issue with our healthcare system is because they think it should be free to all. Life is not free, go out and get a job and you will have the best healthcare in the world.

Stoner710 · Answer

We have really good healthcare it’s just expensive. You can have 2 of 3 thing when it comes to healthcare

1 universality
2 quality
3 affordability

We have quality and affordability normally what happen when the government take over healthcare is you sacrifice the quality for universality

rcljr · Answer

Yeah, I’ll drive my dying ass to the hospital, thanks.

Anonymous · Answer

Because it's purposely not transparent and very secretive. Most Americans have no clue of what the bill is because their insurance pays it. Most the bills you see posted online are not actually the real price. insurance companies get discounts by law So they just have the price higher on paper Then it actually is anyone pays. They're then stupid people who just pay it without thinking. If you don't have insurance you could just call them and tell them you don't have insurance and they will greatly reduce the costs use sometimes by like 90%.

So because of American law you have to treat people in the ERs possibles have to make up the money somewhere somoney somewhere so they charge people who actually pay more.

Basically if you get government out of health care we could have great health care the problem is government.

OddBeMe · Answer

Media gets them riled up on wedge issues like abortion, so they elect anti-abortion politicians who will take away their healthcare.

MotorcycleMan · Answer

We like to believe what we're told. We're the land of the free, but with more people in prison per capita than almost anywhere.

exitseven · Answer

If it is so bad, why do all the foreign billionaires come here to get their elective surgeries?
I have only travelled to Canada so I don't know about the rest of the world but I saw first hand that the healthcare in the US was better. Maybe the issue is that if you do not have good insurance you don't get good healthcare.

FilmGuy93 · Answer

The healthcare system is different from our quality of care. America has amazing surgeons and people come from all over the world to have operations in our country. What sucks is our pharmaceutical industry and the insane billing practices.

NorthwestRider · Answer

Sane people know that while the brainwashed sheep think we have the best Healthcare

SuccessfulHornDog · Answer

The quality of care is as good or better than any other country. If you want to argue cost then do that. If you make it cheaper then the quality will go down to that of Canada or England

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Most of them aren't. Some say universal Healthcare is the solution, others say that government should stay out of it and let competition lower prices.

NightHawk99 · Answer

Half of us still have common sense. The other half thinks it's a privilege. Meanwhile they wanna scream gun rights while screaming minorities are dangerous.

45Fstraight · Answer

I have dealt first-hand with healthcare in Europe, Canada, Mexico, and the U. S. The U. S. healthcare system is far from perfect, but it's better than ANY of those places.

Anonymous · Answer

How can we have a perfect health Care system if we can't even figure out how to have a sovereign borders?

Malik00 · Answer

I got to love how anybody who disagrees with you or claims they've experienced the health care system of other countries. Your reaction is to just say they are either lying or brainwashed.

msc545 · Answer

The quality of care is pretty good - it is the financial stuff that is literally killing people.

blondfrog · Answer

Because they are stupid.

anylolone · Answer

Because it isn't. It's just expensive.

ItsMeItsMe1989 · Answer

welcome, to capitalism

Anonymous · Answer

It’s still worth it to live here despite having an okay healthcare system. We can fix it.

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