My mom spent the last few days in a hospital bed vomiting up her own feces from a bowl obstruction. They kicked her out of her hospital bed on Father’s Day 2019. No longer a reason to keep her there. They dumped her on the steps of her home before even the hospice supplies arrived.
I spent the next week, bathing, caring and holding my mother as she lay dying in her bed. The best help I could get was a phone call by a nurse as I tried to learn how to care/support replace leaking colostomy bags.
The healthcare execs brought this on themselves. They deserve this.
You’ve all heard stories of terrible Canadian healthcare. My wife had cancer surgery 10 days after diagnosis. Chemo after recovery. Radiation next. Only doctors decide treatment. All drugs paid for. Our cost parking. I pay less in taxes than my brother in FL with health ins added. Wake up USA
The next four years are going to be profoundly dark - what keeps me going is there is a light at the end of the tunnel and the # of ‘dirt naps’ in between!
Awful outcome for that couple. In contrast, my wife got stage 3 cancer, got all her treatments, in 3 hospitals, with a few trips to A&E, plus meds. Cost us nothing bar medication costs (max 80 euro a month) and carparking (which was free in one hospital). Ireland respect their citizen's health.
The rest of us live in fear that will be our future. The US is broken and the system is designed to encourage the continued destruction. The billionaire class has zero interest in helping and for the next 4 years expect it to get markedly worse.
This is why cancer will never be cured.
Why cure cancer when the cure comes with a single payment?
Instead dangle treatment in front of people suffering from cancer and use that treatment to extract every last cent from them.
When you stop seeing people as patients but customers the con is complete.
The plot for many science fiction movies - rather than cure the illness, the evil overlords keep the population sick while holding treatment over their heads to compel obedience.
The screenwriters intended this as a cautionary tale, the US healthcare industry saw it as a roadmap to obscene wealth.
My adult son developed an extremely rare condition. Can't work. Got Medicaid but covers very little. Hubby & I spent every dollar we saved, cashed in retirement - 401k, sold our home & bought a cheap mobile home, etc. to save his life - $453,000 on medical. We have nothing now but my son is alive.
Pretty much… Back in 2014 I moved from Chicago to AZ to look after my folks. First thing I noticed was all the predatory calls they got throughout the day trying to trick them into signing up for things (mostly healthcare related). To a handful of big industries we are not customers. We are prey…
I feel gut punched when I hear stories like this. I am wondering if there is a difference state to state? We live in MA my sister is a breast cancer survivor. she has traditional Medicare and a good supplement. All of her extensive treatment was covered - with only a few low co-pays, deductibles.
Probably the difference is that she has Medicare and didn't have to solely depend on a private health insurance company. I'm glad she did well, and I wish everyone could have that kind of treatment when they become ill. #M4A
we've been through this, twice. we were far luckier than this person but it is immoral in a civilized society for folks to lose everything to try to survive the healthcare system. no, I do not condone or encourage vigilante justice against loathsome healthcare execs. there is a better way.
It’s infuriating that every year, over 45,000 Americans die due to lack of insurance or denied claims. Meanwhile, healthcare companies like UnitedHealth—with annual revenues over $400 billion—continue to rake in profits.
The CEO of UnitedHealth alone makes $20 million a year, while millions of Americans are forced into bankruptcy because of medical debt. Yet, the media sensationalizes the murder of one healthcare CEO, while the systemic deaths of everyday people go largely unreported.
A whole mindshift is needed. Let’s all quit right now saying health care industry. Like the UK, call it National Health Service. It serves us, we aren’t here to die so and industry gets rich! Health is not a commodity.
Obama tried to change things but his plan got whittled down so far that it couldn’t work properly. And to think that the new old president is going to try to take that away as well. Living in a country with national health means you’re rushed to the emergency room and there is no paperwork or cc.
This is demonstrably not true. The Affordable Care Act was not "Obama's plan." It was the Republican plan proposed to counteract single payer healthcare.
Obama and Emanuel had the opportunity to change the course of American healthcare and chickened out.
Ummmm you can literally google the "Health Equity and Access Reform Today" bill. Decide for yourself if it is similar to the Affordable Care Act. It is not identical: ACA expanded Medicare more than HEART. But the ACA is NOT a liberal bill. It is why we do not have single payer.
It was a Republican idea that some republicans thought was too liberal and now if they were asked they’d say it was socialism. The ACA is not what Obama wanted exactly, it was what he managed to get. Does Trump have a plan, no, just a concept he sketched out on a McDonald’s napkin in ketchup.
"not what Obama wanted exactly, it was what he managed to get." Again, imo this is not correct. Hillary Clinton attacked his plan in the debates as being not progressive enough. The ACA *was* the plan he ran on. We will never know if he could get "more" because he never fought for more.
As a European cancer survivor, I'd be dead and broke had I been living in the US. Yet, the US voters seem to follow the rich folks in congress deciding they're better off without general health insurance that actually pays the bills.
there should be a special fund for people with a cancer diagnosis. Something like up to $100k if needed. I have great insurance, and it still cost me around $7k.
Cut the F-35 program alone, and you could easily afford this. DoD funding is out of control in general.
Over ten years ago, one dose of a drug I needed to deal with neutropenia post-chemo was over $25K. I needed 6 of them. That didn’t count the chemo itself, or the cost of surgery, or the lost wages after my employer fired me. What exactly are you questioning when you think $100K would suffice?
Most people may. Too many still do not (especially in states declining to address the “Medicaid gap” for ACA coverage). I’d guess millions of folks in the US with chronic or catastrophic illness for whom $100K would not suffice. It’d be better to have it than not but—the need & shortfall are huge.
You know what weirds me (and probably all of us here) out? I have literally no idea what any of this would cost. No clue. And if our employers fired us for the crime of *having fucking cancer* they'd be absolutely fucked in court
I very much hope you get your revolution. You deserve better
Thank you. It was a very bad & scary time. Fortunately, I survived, but the whole ordeal took a serious toll (from which full recovery is not really possible). And I’m actually a lucky one in many ways.
I side w/ them. Thankfully I have not had this exp. but I am sick to death of paying a ridiculous amt every mo. for sub-standard care. Co-pays, deductibles & letters refusing coverage when u are SICK & don’t have the energy to get up at all much less challenge these bureaucrats. It’s maddening.
And yet people abroad still think that USA is fucking great… ‘my taxes will be less’ yeah probably, but you could go broke with one single medical emergency.
Sorry to say it, but our country is NOT that great.
It breaks my heart. 💔😢
I know what you went through too. And are still. I’m so grateful for my cancer fight costing 0.00 (all surgeries, scans, meds, chemo, radiation, etc etc) The US is apparently the better country. Number one? Things are changing here but not to this degree. 😡
We think we vote for lobbyist in elections. Big business votes where it counts, campaign contributions and continued supporting relationships during legislative sessions.
The American way in the 21st century Gilded Age
A capitalist utopia for those born on third base
Making it easy to steal home in the game of life
Especially if you have bought the home plate umpire
The masses have to earn their hit and hope that the other ballplayers get hits to help him score
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The healthcare execs brought this on themselves. They deserve this.
Why cure cancer when the cure comes with a single payment?
Instead dangle treatment in front of people suffering from cancer and use that treatment to extract every last cent from them.
When you stop seeing people as patients but customers the con is complete.
The screenwriters intended this as a cautionary tale, the US healthcare industry saw it as a roadmap to obscene wealth.
It’s not right
And Trump wants to make it even worse.
Single payer national healthcare with extra private cover is a wonderful thing.
This is what happens when you spend tax dollars on citizens and not corporate welfare and tax cuts
#Healthcare #MedicalDebt #UnitedHealth #CorporateGreed #DeniedCare #Bankruptcy #BrokenSystem
Obama and Emanuel had the opportunity to change the course of American healthcare and chickened out.
Cut the F-35 program alone, and you could easily afford this. DoD funding is out of control in general.
I very much hope you get your revolution. You deserve better
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Sorry to say it, but our country is NOT that great.
If we think it’s a shithole country now (and it is) wait until 4 years of pure MAGA rule does to it
Blame the greed, not the immigrants, nor the homeless, gays, women, ect.
I know what you went through too. And are still. I’m so grateful for my cancer fight costing 0.00 (all surgeries, scans, meds, chemo, radiation, etc etc) The US is apparently the better country. Number one? Things are changing here but not to this degree. 😡
A capitalist utopia for those born on third base
Making it easy to steal home in the game of life
Especially if you have bought the home plate umpire
The masses have to earn their hit and hope that the other ballplayers get hits to help him score
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