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David Watson 🥑
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I'm tempted to agree, but the issue with healthcare coverage is an issue with a small percentage of very high cost individuals.
You don't have to know that healthcare coverage has eroded significantly over the last several years. Healthcare is more expensive, plans are more expensive, and people feel the pain in their pockets and in their hearts when they can't afford care.
That chart ends in 2020. I’d wager people’s opinions of healthcare has gone down in the last 4 years.
No, this cannot be true because I have my own anecdote about how terrible and evil our healthcare system so it must be completely dismantled and replaced
Well tbf this isn’t too dissimilar to how people spoke about their own economic performance the last few years. “How do you think the economy is overall?” Its terrible, no one can afford anything “How are you personally doing” Oh I’m actually doing quite well myself
Interesting phrasing of the question. Aren’t healthcare quality and heath care coverage two very distinct things? Couldn’t I be happy with one and not the other?
No. What this shows is the American public has been gaslit into believing that mediocrity is just fine because they have no other system to compare it to. This is all most “know.” Spending $13k in premiums for private insurance for a family is NOT sustainable for most.
Who gives a crap how people perceive their healthcare when we know we know statistically that we have the most expensive care with the worst outcomes.
is there a chart that only includes people who had to file a major insurance claim in the last 5 years or something?
They do, until they get denied life saving treatment... Denials and pre-approvals have become far more common than even ten years ago.
This graph needs an additional data point: affordability. I've never really had an issue with my healthcare quality or coverage, but it's crazy expensive between the premiums, high deductibles, 5 figure out of pocket maxes, etc.
There is mass discontent among the public, but it is completely ideologically incoherent and at a lower simmer than what very online politically agitated people assume.
Quality of care in my area is staggeringly high. Coverage is decent but could be better. The *process* for understanding what is covered vs. not covered is unforgivably labyrinthine and absurd.
The quality is the best in the world. The problem is affordability. I, my wife, and two daughters are all Healthy and pay $1,900/month premium for shitty insurance. They denied my wife’s miscarriage, my two year olds ear tube procedure (very common) etc.
Yes, we clearly have a mental health problem in this country but somehow they're the party of joy and compassion and kindness lol.
The coverage is mostly below 70 which is less than average. But I guess the silver lining is within that subpar coverage the quality is decent? Not exactly a stellar review.
Would be more informative if it rated satisfaction of the people who regular use its services. I would probably rate my countries health services as very good, but to be honest I am still young enough that have never used it to any serious degree.
Do you think the health care industry in this country is good? I'm a bankruptcy attorney and a heck of a lot of cases that I've filed on behalf of clients was because of medical debt. It's not a, polical opinion, my conservative friends agree.
People are buying poisoned Fentanyl pills because the doctors refuse to prescribe whatever they need.
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Sounds pretty ableist. I don't like chalking up jew hate and other white supremacy on the left or the right to mental illness. People with mental illness don't calculatedly sabotage or steer elections bc of their own bigotry. They don't vote for traitor rapists bc of depression
Do you believe the problem most people have is with physicians, nurses, and healthcare staff?? If not, why would you show a graph that smashes together 2 different independent variables thinking you made a good point?
The issue with health care is not the quality but the cost caused by unnecessary procedures and tests that are done solely to bill insurance companies. The average person has to agree to these procedures as they lack medical knowledge and the cost is on insurance not them
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Have you considered that those aren't the only metrics relevant for satisfaction with healthcare? Also, could things have changed since 2020?
I'm not a Leftist, but healthcare is way to expensive, and is not that good, covid showed a lot of people what they hospitals care about and its money, killing people on purpose for more government money.
You have a massive tail issue here. Those that died aren't responding to surveys, and their numbers are small compared to all insured; but their outcomes are exponentially worse. You have to look at the tails not the average-- that's where the death and rage and pain are.
Maybe you should use up-to-date information. 45% of Americans are, right now, not in 2020, cost insecure or desperate wrt health care.
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I'm not a leftist, and I am dissatisfied with health care here in the leftist paradise of WA state. Getting in to see specialists is very difficult, ER overrun, can't ever talk to anyone in your provider's office, etc. None of that is, however, a cause for assassination.