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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this a joke post?[/quote]

+1. Have you been living under a rock OP? Nearly everyone agrees that US healthcare is expensive and yields incredibly poor outcomes given how expensive it is.

The only people who say otherwise are those who work for health insurance companies. [/quote]

That p poster said she/he has good doctors [/quote]
 
A lot of people who think they have good doctors simply have decent health and good insurance. When you get a complicated issue, or lose your insurance, you realize what most of us are talking about.

It's a nice little bubble to be in; I like that for them. I wish more of us had it. Since we don't, I wish there was a way to communicate to the bubbled-up people what the rest of us experience when we get bounced around to specialists and out-of-network providers, have to wait months or even years to see the right kind of doctor for the issues we're experiencing, have to jump through pre-approval hoops with our insurance, etc.

The US healthcare system is great for healthy people with good insurance. That's the whole problem[/quote]

Op this is exactly it. It’s great until you have something and you don’t really need it. I’ll also admit that I think it’s probably good for emergencies and cancer, that sort of more catastrophic thing. But more everyday quality of life healthcare, no?

And I don’t have health anxiety as someone upstream implied. If anything, I don’t want expensive tests. But I’d like a doctor running labs that cost thousands of dollars to be a little more attentive of symptoms and medication interactions and other non catastrophic issues. As ex, just bc my thyroid labs come back in the green zone technically, if my TSH is higher than it was last time and the time before, maybe that means something, especially considering I’m symptomatic. 99.99% of doctors will ignore that. KWIM? [/quote]

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