#fuck american healthcare

[gabbagepatch]

My insurance just informed me I owe a total of $4,000 for a six hour ER visit. I guess next time I have an emergency I'll just die.

#fuck capitalism #fuck american healthcare #disability #disabled #chronic illness #chronically ill #hard of hearing #chronic migraine #chronic disability #chronic pain #invisible illness #illness mention #emergency tw #medical tw #medical bill tw #healthcare costs #invisible disability #disability rights

[samijami]

If you're ever in my parents' mindset and say the reason homeless people are homeless is because they are mentally fucked and won't help themselves (or choose to be homeless), go and learn something in school for once.

Most homeless people I see/hear of anymore are homeless because they've been through hell and can't financially support themselves, or pay for medication to support their mental health and hence will not be accepted into jobs. They can't even afford clothing to be presentable for an interview or to even show up to work without being looked down upon/fired for lack of cleanliness.

And people who aren't even like the first point, are still caught in the second one. They don't have the money to afford an outfit for work to not be immediately dropped on their ass for being unclean. And plus, if ever given money, these people will need food. They will buy food with the money, not clothes.

And some places won't hire homeless people regardless of anything. People are assholes and this is America, this is capitalism. They take everything you own and when you have nothing left, they let you die. That's the entire point of it being like this.

(And the people who physically cannot get a job and sustain it are fucked too).

Even when we are kind enough to help those in need, there are too many perfectly wealthy people who fake being homeless/in need that we've lost hope in those who are actually in need of our help.

Please stop this madness.

#human rights #fuck capitalism #fuck america #fuck amerikkka #fuck republikkkans #fuck republicans #anti republican #american health insurance #american health system #american healthcare #fuck billionaires #fuck american healthcare #help the homeless

[i-miss-breathing]

Idk everything that’s wrong with America but one of the things is that I broke my toe and I can’t go to the hospital because my insurance won’t cover it so I’m making a splint out of popsicle sticks and praying that it keeps the bone from moving out of place while it heals. I also am still going to my part time job bc I’ve called out of a lot of shifts for the upcoming holidays and I don’t want to be fired. I work in retail. Where I stand for 4-6 hours

This feels like I’m the person that breaks out of the surprise dystopian city and am forcing myself to live off the magic brainwashing pills that prevent and heal all wounds or some shit

#fuck capitalism #fuck american healthcare #fuck American insurance companies

[sky-chau]

Got my testosterone levels tested today. Apparently that's not covered by insurance for no good reason.

#testosterone #fuck american healthcare

[propaganda-inc]

Great! Now that I've distracted you with a good meme, listen up, ladies, gents, and voids.

My friend is looking to get top surgery to rid themself of unnecessary mammaries, and of course the healthcare system is being a bellend as usual. He's working towards saving up for his surgery, but it would be lovely if any of you peeps would like to donate to his GoFundMe to this end then please, follow the link below 👇

If you can donate, we'd really appreciate it- and if you can't, don't worry! I'll appreciate it much more if you just give this post visibility. Thanks in advance, lovelies 💕

#r/196 #top surgery #fuck american healthcare #transmasc allyship

[eggsnspanky]

Me: *listing complex, lifelong problems, chronic pain and fatigue, poor immunity, tremors*

Every doctor ever: *without missing a beat* It's because you're fat.

#fatphobia #fuck american healthcare #fuck the whole system #I want to dismantle this country brick by brick

[jesuisgourde]

I hate this fucking country i just want to get a covid vaccine but my doctor office isn't administering them and i just learned the bridge access program only covers it if you're completely uninsured so i have to go back to the pharmacy in like a week and straight up lie about being uninsured if I want to get vaccinated and not pay like $250 for it

#squash rambles #fuck american healthcare

[corvidkidlet]

Im So frustrated (a rant about trying to get help)

I have been avoiding advocating for myself around my hip and knee pain as well as my stiffness and difficulty walking for like 5 years because I was basically told that i just needed to lose weight and exercise more (which i do need to exercise more but its hard when it really hurts to do so and also depression doesn't help) and that there wasn't anything "wrong enough" with me to actually do anything. and so ive been ignoring that it has gotten worse over time, until this year when i realized that my campus has many flights of stairs on it and i just couldnt avoid acknowledging this anymore.

So i finally mentioned it to my PCP again and he was like "why didnt you mention this earlier" (i actually under estimated the amount of time ive been dealing with this to not make him feel bad) and i wanted to say that i had and nothing positive came from it. but he sent me for x-rays and bloodwork and all that jazz and i was hoping that maybe just maybe they could figure out why my body is like this and i could get a solution. but the results came back and im apparently completely normal, so i guess im going to try physical therapy again. I really think id benefit from a mobility aid (either cane or rollator) but i dont know how to bring it up and they are probably going to just tell me that im not "bad" enough again. at this point i dont even care if my insurance covers it, i just want to know what they think i should use so that i maybe can actually get some sort of change.

and maybe im exaggerating my pain and difficulties but idk im just tired of being told that im "fine" by medical professionals with the undertone that i should just wait until i get worse before i bother them again

if anyone has advice id really appriciate it but also thank you if you just took the time to read this. I hope you have a fortuitous day internet stranger /genuine <3

#joint pain #balance and walking issues #cw fatphobia #cw medical #cw possible ableism #fuck american healthcare #my severe anxiety around asking for help isnt being cooperative either

[reno-the-himbo-turk]

American healthcare at its fucking finest pt 1

So due to where I live being a red state being ran by assholes I started my Trans Journey properly roughly 4ish months ago. Now thanks to the fact I work 3rd shift I really can't be out and about during the day and my off days are weird. I really only have one solid day for appointments as the nearest trans care is over 30+ minutes away without rush hour traffic which is when I get off work assuming I am not forced/asked to stay late For those of you who live outside of America depending on where you are at in America there are multiple hospitals/doctors offices in your area and some of them are ran by different groups. Where I am at we have SSM, BJC/WASH-U, and MERCY are the big three. Now I do most of my medical stuff with BJC 95% of it for at least the last 15 or so years. Now this matters as BJC will share records with any BJC/WASH-U doctor no questions asked and will gladly refer you to another doctor if needed from BJC normally in pretty much the blink of an eye. Now they will not be able to access or share records with SSM/MERCY normally unless you go through a lot of paperwork and hoop jumping and if said doctor works at several facilities you can tell them I need paperwork sent to Blank place and more often than not they will mail/fax it to the wrong building (at least on my experiences) which then requires more waiting time (days in my cases) in addition to hoping they can basically look it up and be like "ohh it got sent to X place instead of Y place" Then going from there. Now why this is relevant. The doctor I see for transitioning is a specialist that with my insurance I pay a $75 copay to see. They deal with Endocrinology and issues of that nature. When I started seeing the doctor months ago I was able to get appointments for Thursdays which is the one day I am truly free to safely drive 30+ minutes to visit a doctor. My doctor for T no longer has Thursday appointments. They have 3 different facilities with different doctors I could in theory see, but after going through the hassle of telling them I need to change doctors for that reason, getting my doctor to approve it and then waiting on any number of other doctors to approve a patient switch I get told none of them have Thursday appointments. Instead I am told I have to do Zoom appointments on days that don't work for me which is an issue because I will have lab work that would need to be done and they still make you do in person visits every so often which if they only have non-Thursday days won't work. I also do not have a clean, safe, and private filming area for Zoom meetings because I do not live alone and cannot afford too when rent where i'm at is easily 1200-2000 a month and they would like you to make 2-3x that.

#mun update #mun post #fuck health insurance #fuck american healthcare #america sucks ass

[samijami]

#fuck american healthcare #us healthcare #fuck health insurance #american health insurance #health insurance #american health system #american healthcare #health wellness #health equity #health rant #health tag #health usa #usa health #health issues #health and wellness #health and safety #health department #health disparities #health facilities #health human #health care #health cw #health concerns #health benefits #health management #health mention #i love polls #polls #tumblr polls #my polls

[cloudselkie]

Insurance tried to charge me $2,700 for Humira today as a co-pay. I had to get TWO SEPARATE payment help cards from the maker of Humira to cover it. And getting them took three fucking hours. How is this a thing? Why do I have to jump through hoops to pay for a medication I NEED to treat a chronic illness I didn't ask to have? They treat you like YOU'RE the problem for being sick. Like, I wouldn't have given myself Crohn's if I had the choice. It fucking sucks. Why are you treating me like I'M the problem???

#vent #rant #chronic illness #crohn's disease #fuck american healthcare

[jellybombomb]

*rolling on the floor like a pathetic little bug*

ooouuuggghhhhhh ooohggggh tummy hurtyyyyyy oouughghfgghhhg

#got an appt monday so #hopefully i do not have to suffer much longer #fuck american healthcare #but ooggh abdomen in PAIN #blowin bubbles

[theforevermorereject]

Health insurance in the States really pisses me off. How you going to deny coverage for an inpatient hospital admission when it was clearly required? Like I’m sorry next time I’ll take a damn Echinacea capsule when I’m on my way to dying from Sepsis 😑😒

#fuck american healthcare #fuck health insurance companies

[grumblewhine]

my psychiatrist tried to pull the old "you know, weed can give you insomnia & anxiety" on me today -- without, y'know, offering any other form of pain relief. (I've had a medical marijuana card for ten years because my pain management doc was shoving everyone off opioids.) it took long, expensive years to find things that actually relieve my pain, and now that I have something that actually works on the pain, she keeps saying shit like this, like I'm going to just ... I don't know ... volunteer to stop using pain relief? yeah, I'll do that. right after you suffer from weeks-long stabbing agony with nothing but tylenol & yoga. get back to me when you've figured out what poses cure scoliosis, kyphosis and lordosis.

#fuck american healthcare #chronic pain #spoonie

[snowtamale]

okay. but getting adhd meds is such a fucking pain id rather be unmedicated at this point. like fuck. why is it so hard to just get meds that make my brain work??? why do i have to get fucked by the us government and health care system every single time i try to take care of my health.

it's literally just easier to not.

#adhd #the usa is a shithole country #fuck america #fuck american healthcare #healthcare #meds #captain's log

[smograbbit]

I am never trusting another hospital again.

Went in yesterday because my arm (the one that had/has an infection for those that actually read these) suddenly went numb and cold for a few hours. The redness around the infection area comes and goes, it happened to not be flared up at the time of my hospital visit, but I showed them pictures of the day before and hours before I came in, where it was very clearly inflamed. When inflamed, my body gets cold and hot flashes. I’m scared the infection may not have been killed off, and may have entered my bloodstream. And I didn’t think urgent care would be appropriate. Do you know what they told me? “That’s not an emergency”, followed by asking me “why did you even come here?” …BECAUSE IM SCARED I MAY BE SHOWING EARLY SIGNS OF SEPSIS? BECAUSE IM SCARED THE INFECTION MAY NOT HAVE BEEN KILLED OFF???

I guess I’ll just die. Lol. But on a serious note, how the fuck do you just…say that to someone who is in fear for their life?

#smog talks #fuck american healthcare