#american healthcare is a joke

[mmmn-thirsty-for-vinegar]

I'm still bitter about that one time my mom paid $100 for me to visit the doctors because I was- and still am- having maybe 1-2 periods a YEAR only for them to tell me I'm fat (which I'm not) and sent me on my way

Turns out its a hormonal imbalance 👍

#american healthcare is a joke #vinegar speaks

[tatersgonnatate]

Change my epileptic mind

#healthcare racket #healthcare is a right #american health system #american health news #american health insurance #american healthcare is a joke #health #healthcare #health conditions #healthcare workers #medicare for all #medical rights #okay but i did laugh #funny #lol #meme #memes #american politics #current events #healthcare memes

[mbrainspaz]

just had to waste another 20 minutes of my life I'll never get back signing in for my next doctor appointment with a hospital network that's already taken in all my info and made me sign the same consent forms at least 10 times in the past year. Answered every open ended question with nonsense. What's my profession? 'Wouldn't you like to know weatherboy." I wanna see if they actually read this shit, 'cause I'm really starting to doubt it. Signed in to my last 3 appointments citing major issues that were never brought up by the doctors. The last one even prescribed me the ONLY medication I'd mentioned ever having issues with—but under a different name so I didn't realize what it was.

#ffs #I hate it here #medical bullshit #american healthcare is a joke #for profit healthcare

[montgomerydadbodyscotty]

Health update for those who care. It wasn’t COVID, influenza, RSV, or pregnancy. It was a localized infection in my breast tissue. One for which they prescribed me heavy duty antibiotics, so I’m no longer deteriorating on my couch.

#not star trek related #literally ignore this #hope this doesn’t cost me a shit ton of money #American healthcare is a joke

[zanarkandfayth]

I just need to vent and scream into the void, so ignore this if you don't care lol.

I do so love when I get medical bills in the mail that are a minimum of eight hundred dollars for JUST anaesthesia, despite the fact that I was assured MULTIPLE FUCKING TIMES before I ever agreed to any of this that I wouldn't have to pay anything, that the charity group I was referred through and accepted by would cover it and that they would all take care of it and the only thing I had to do was show my member card to the doctor's office WHICH I FUCKING DID and yet still multiple times I keep getting shit about "we don't have any insurance information on you" NO FUCKING SHIT BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ANY BECAUSE I CAN'T WORK AND HAVE NO MONEY AND THEREFORE NO HEALTH INSURANCE BECAUSE OUR STATE GOVERNOR IS A PIECE OF SHIT AND DIDN'T THINK WE NEEDED EXPANDED MEDICAID/CARE BECAUSE FUCK POOR PEOPLE AMIRITE???

ugh. it shouldn’t even bother me because I already have thousands upon thousands in medical debt that I just ignore because what is money? but it does. and what I hate even *more* is that in this day and age the easiest and often only way to deal with this shit is still over the phone spending a minimum of ten minutes going through fucking automated service systems, like no joke I called and the automated system was like "if you are a patient or a doctor press 1" AND THAT WAS THE ONLY OPTION like hello??? what is the point of that?????????? and of course that phone call wasn't enough because they'd never heard of my charity group and kept talking about me sending info to them to see if I qualified for a "discount" like no, it's not a discount, it's a "someone else is covering the entire bill and I shouldn’t even have gotten this bill how many times do I have to say that?" so then I gotta call the charity group and go through *their* automated system and I just

why. I hate everything. I hate phones. I hate being poor. I hate the healthcare in this country. I hate that my options for doctors are so limited that I can't get anyone to listen to me about my chronic fatigue and pain that's been a serious problem since 2017 so that I can't hold down a job for long OR apply for disability because no one wants to even attempt to figure out why I'm experiencing it or diagnose me with CFS if there's no seeming cause and I hate that I'm getting the bare minimum of care for my stomach problems now and hhhhh I hate the US so fucking much, can someone please get me out of this fucking country??? I know other countries aren’t perfect either but goddamn.

and also the fucking gastro office said they'd send a request to the charity group to set me up a consult with a surgeon as my next step since they couldn't see anything wrong using the cameras they shoved down my throat and yet when I had to call the charity group they said they hadn't received any requests despite it being like three weeks now and god I'm just gonna curl up in ball and die I don't wanna deal with this shit anymore make it stop

#ignore me #real life #fayth pity party of one #american healthcare is a joke

[lewmagoo]

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#american healthcare is a JOKE #insurance is trying to put an end to my grandma’s pt #like #she still needs it? #she’s nowhere near ready to be done #they did this same shit with my dad when he was injured and couldn’t walk #he needed extensive pt and they tried to kick him off a few weeks into it #like the man can’t walk without assistance? hello? #anyway im irritated

[a-kinda-nerdy-girl]

Just got back home from the eye doctor and frankly it's ridiculous i have to pay hundreds of dollars to see out of my own eyes

#it's not my fault that my eyes don't work #american healthcare is a joke #abby vents

[featherwurm]

Y'all are nice about line cook Karlach you can have a bit more since I've got the brainworms.

Good Continuity: She works at a local brew pub after her military stint. She'll eventually take the place over (going on Sam Béart's headcanon she'd like to be running a pub if she wasn't adventuring.)

Bad Continuity: She works at a fancy bistro owned by Zariel where she's obligated to stay in her job to keep up her health insurance to care for her heart condition.

Take your pick! Or something else, I'm absolutely not fussed.

#Art #personal #Sketch #BG3 #baulders gate 3 #Karlach #Yes the 'bad' one is close to home although I don't mind my job much #but the American healthcare system is a joke #we don't need to discuss what my chemo would have cost out of pocket

[troythecatfish]

#the USA healthcare system is a joke #current events #social justice #human rights #usa #spain #healthcare #medicine #medical facts #medical tag #political #political posting #politics #us politics #usa politics #united states politics #american politics #fuck the usa #fuck the us government #fuck the united states #europe #world politics #late stage capitalism #capitalism #anti capitalism #america is a failed state #america is a hellscape #health #health and wellness #health tips

[yardsards]

hysterectomies should be easy to just call your doctor and schedule one for next week and only cost one hundred dollars. like spaying a cat.

#eliot posts #this is jokes i KNOW it's more complicated for humans bc of how our hormone cycles work #so hysterectomies (especially full ones where you get the ovaries removed) can have unwanted side effect #BUT AT THE SAME TIME #the way medical misogyny (as well as good ole overly expensive american healthcare) makes them unnecessarily hard to get #''but what if you want BABIES some day'' no thanks. fuck them kids. #''but what if your FUTURE HUSBAND wants BABIES'' someday. no thanks. not into men. #(and trying to pressure me to carry a child for them would be grounds for divorce to me anyways. fuck you im not a baby machine.) #this post brought to you by: i feel like i got hit by a fucking bus after last night's cramp incident #i want this thang GONE

[hylianengineer]

I found this rant in my notes from that time a couple months ago when the pharmacy lost my birth control prescription right before a holiday weekend and made me deal with unmedicated PMDD for a week and I was scared out of my mind. Have an angry rant about the inadequacies of the American healthcare system.

When Julian Bashir was a child, he thought that if he was bad, the doctors would make sure he got sick. He grew out of it. But… if you live with a chronic medical condition that requires medical attention to manage, this is kind of just how your life works.

You have to do all the right paperwork and go to all the right appointments and say the right things in order to maintain access to the treatment you need to be healthy. Especially if the meds you need are a controlled substance. You have to be the good patient. You have to, or you’re in for a significant amount of pain and suffering. It feels like a threat hanging over your head.

And sometimes, you’ll do everything right, and then something happens outside of your control to screw everything up. Maybe there’s a shortage of the medication you need. Maybe the pharmacy loses your prescription. But suddenly you don’t have what you need to be okay, and you hurt. More than that, you’re terrified. You don’t want to be in pain. You don’t want to suffer.

You just want to be okay; why is that so hard?

And the doctors don’t mean to hurt anyone! They don’t understand the amount of power they hold over us. They really do, for the most part, want to help. But the system is a mess of power imbalances and red tape and fear fear fear. There are too many bureaucratic road blocks that keep people from getting medical attention. There are too many doctors who don’t give a shit. Who don’t listen to their patients. Who assume the worst of us. We just don’t want to hurt anymore. We don’t mean to be a bother, we just want to be okay.

And we have to put our wellbeing in their hands. We have to hand them our lives and our sanity and hope they hold them gently. And if they don’t? We have to pick a new doctor and do it all over again. What other choice do we have?

#chronic illness #star trek references #hylian rambles #medical #american health system #i have no idea if other healthcare systems are this shitty but i have my suspicions. and my doubts. #for context: pmdd is premenstrual dysphoric disorder and for me it's an express ticket to psychological agony #it causes depression right before periods essentially. and mine is BAD. i describe it as torture and i'm not joking. #my greatest fear is my depression coming back to try to kill me and pmdd has made that happen in the past #so i was very much losing my mind out of sheer terror in this situation #medical... trauma? maybe? #medical trauma #yeah i'm tagging that #i think that's fair #meds tw

[mbrainspaz]

great. Once again finally worked up the courage to try getting some healthcare so naturally my insurance site is down. Cool. No notes. Awesome.

#cigna corp #uuuuueeeegggughghhhh #american healthcare is a joke #adhd problems #I've been in so much pain

[kaftan]

calling 911 for your mysteriously ailing, on-the-ground-with-pain mom at her pleading is a great experience, by the way, not traumatic at all, getting “traumatized” by that is for suckers

#pardon my tone. I’m copeposting #anyway we’re coming up on the 2 year anniversary and I still don’t know the exact cause of death isn’t that nuts. isn’t that crazy! #the american healthcare system is an actual joke

[dangans-ur-ronpas]

terrible time to be a stem student i think

#*in usamerica at least #engineers either have no jobs or have to work for military defense corps #med students have to deal with the covid fallout + american healthcare #comp sci majors can just die i think* (*is a comp sci major) #sorry doing job apps rn and blowing everything up in my mind #90% of suggested jobs are for fucking. missile companies. hell hell hell hell hell #sorry for vengint on the dgr blog. i just drank some soju before opening up linkedin so u can imagine how i am doing rn #even furry art comms are a shaky industry bc of ai art #this is not a case of me complaining about having to work to live (tho that in itself is kinda fucked where productivity = basic living) #this is me complaining about not being able to find work that provides an adequate amoutn to live. christ #if im unemployed longer than three years my mom's gonna make me get married i need to find a beard stat (joke)

[avintagekiss24]

So, ya girl been laid up with a kidney infection that took 2 emergency room trips in 5 days to diagnose :) first trip happened one (1) day before my insurance went into effect :) :) I now have a $11k bill just to be misdiagnosed with colitis instead of an acute kidney infection :) :) :) 2nd emergency room doctor wasn’t even convinced it was a kidney infection because my urine test wasn’t really showing one but the radiologist was convinced just off the ct scan :) :) :) :) but it did get me thinking about nurse!bucky… so…

#the american healthcare system is a joke #but i guess i didn’t die so #nurse!bucky tho 🫠

[sirenscriptures]

okay but can we talk about how fast some healthcare providers are to shove pills at you

#like hello ?????? #american healthcare being the biggest joke part 71636848 #can you at least let me tell you what’s wrong so you can steadily evaluate me first and THEN we can talk about that shit??? #god i hate it here sometimes #it genuinely feels like some of these people don’t give a shit #𓆩⟡𓆪 — siren’s song