One Guy's View of The American Healthcare System
I'm 53 and i've never been to the doctor much. Generally the only reason I sought out any medical service was because I had to.. for work or whatever.
A couple of weeks ago I went to the eye dr. for an exam and they took my blood pressure. It was way high - like scary high. I had a follow up appointment a couple of weeks later, so I layed off of the salt and started eating better. They took my pressure again at the followup and it was even higher.
This scared me enough that I went and bought a BP cuff and started checking twice a day. My pressure is indeed consistently to high, so I thought I would go see a Dr. Problem is, what doctor?
Last time I went to the Dr was about 6 years ago and it was the Dr that delivered my kids. Only one I knew. Since then we have moved, so i had no idea. Finally I hit upon my insurance companies web site list of in network providers. looked up an internal medicine Dr that was taking patients, called, and was told that I had to go through another Dr. Looked for a GP that was accepting patients and called. They told me that Dr may or not be taking patients and they would call me back to let me know.
Four days later they call me back and said that Dr wasn't accepting patients.
I'm done. I have made the sobering decision that I would rather take my chances than deal with this healthcare system. I know a number of people will say that I haven't tried nearly hard enough, but that just makes the point that we are more the victims of the American healthcare system than the beneficiaries. I pay $23k/year for healthcare that sucks and I still can't get an appointment in a reasonable time with a reasonable amount of effort.
Everything in our healthcare system is designed to gate-keep and fleece you rather than provide healthcare. Yes, healthcare is given, but that is secondary to making money. I've prepaid for the healthcare buffet, and as with real buffets, they have an incentive to make it hard to get what you payed for.
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