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A shocking 92 percent of US adults are not going to the doctor because it’s too expensive
(www.independent.co.uk)
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We need healthcare to be cost prohibitive because there's not enough doctors or nurses to care for everyone.
Reasons for that likely because of the rising costs of tuition and the non-rising salaries, and complete forfeiture of your life during your bodies peak years.
It's all working as designed, because it's designed to keep us sick and in deep debt, perpetually afraid of the double-blow of getting sick and losing our jobs to keep us showing up to work every day. We are expendable cogs in a capitalist machine, and our lives have no value beyond what we can produce for the shareholders.
We have it only slightly better than dairy cows, in that we aren't literally getting fucked our entire career, and we get to keep living for a couple more years after we're no longer productive enough to keep working (if we were fortunate enough to save up for it).
And even at that...the cows at least get free healthcare, and food, and shelter provided for them. Most of them see more sunlight than most of us, too.
If you didn't know, congress artificially caps the number of people that can become doctors each year (I believe it's the funding for residency spots). That's the main idiotic reason there's not enough doctors.
also thier salary, if there is too many doctors, they would have to lower the salaries eventually. Also depending on your specialty, certain residencies have higher job pay, like surgeons, and specific specialists(especially if you are an MD and also in research like for cancer). also to make things worst is PE firms/teledoc is snatching up doctors too.
Its notoriously expensive to go to med school, not to mention that most people who could go and pass absolutely should NOT be doctors for emotional intelligence reasons. I think the population is cooked and the incentives dont exist past altruism
not the shitty mega farm cows, but some of the more bougie farm cows have better care than we do.
i think nurses are churned out enough, but they get abused way too much so they leave or work less, or become travelling nurses. DOCTOR is where the problem, High med school cost, competitive, also AMA gatekeeps the licensing.