#i hate the American healthcare system

[clockwork-garden]

So tired of hearing doctors say "I don't like prescribing meds for [chronic condition] because you can get dependent on them." As though dependency on something is always bad. I'm dependent on my HRT; is that bad? What next, don't drink caffeinated things because you might get dependent on caffeine? Is the only acceptable life strategy to do everything through sheer force of will? Fuck off with this puritan nonsense. You get no reward for pointless suffering.

Yes, doc, I probably would become dependent on these needs if you gave them to me. I have a chronic disability! By definition, I need external help to function in anything resembling a way society expects. So tell me, doctor dear, which is better: to be a non-contributing member of society who does what little she can by her own sheer will, or semi-functional but dependent on pills to keep me that way?

#i hate the american healthcare system

[bigwizardhat]

why do i have to get a referral from my primary care doctor and have it ok’d by random strangers just to see a psychiatrist for med changes at the request of my therapist when i can literally get an appointment with any random doctor and say “i feel crazy gimme a new pill” and they’ll spin their wheel of antidepressants to see what concoction they’ll test on me this month

#i HATE THE AMERICAN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM #why can you give me random meds that make me wanna kill myself but i have to wait 4 business days and the approval of the council just for #an APPOINTMENT with a specialist!!!! fuck you!!!!!

[captainsamuelmorrigan]

When I got my MRI to see if me getting really sick caused some brain damage I got to pick the music. So, listening to Bears in Trees in a really loud tube cost me about $650. (No brain damage was found)

Really glad the tickets to go see them in person in April were a bit cheaper. 😅

#bears in trees band #bearsintrees #bears in trees #BiT #i hate the american healthcare system

[passive-poet]

Today is officially a shitty day™️

#i hate the american healthcare system #ollie rambles #except this isn’t me rambling

[asexual-mafia]

After I go to the er tomorrow to get antibiotics for my tooth infection I'm gonna write a short horror story

#i hate the american healthcare system #why is it nearly $400 to get a tooth pulled #why do i have to pay it up front in order to pull out a tooth that will stay infected until its pulled

[trailmixedup]

Just learned that the insurance I’m on should have kicked me at 19 and are in the process of going through and ending service for ppl, so I might lose my surgery and my t unless I figure out my own insurance. I- I can’t do this anymore. What the fuck?! What the fuck? If they cancel my top surgery I will kill myself. That is the only thing keeping me going right now, is knowing that there’s an end to some of the fucking shit that I’m going through. If they take that end away from me I don’t know if I’ll be able to take it.

#online diary #vent post #insurance sucks #I hate the American healthcare system

[macden]

#profound commentary on the american healthcare system #iasip #it's always sunny in philadelphia #i hate tagging gifsets it's so embarrassing for some reason. like omg im being such a massive attention whore. but also i do want attention #charlie kelly #charlie day #frank reynolds #danny devito #dennis gets divorced #gruesome twosome #charlie #frank #* #my gifs #1k

[amikye]

Guess who forgot to refill their meds cause they have memory issues and has therefore been unmedicated for a week

#and when I did order them #insurance canceled it #cause they couldn’t contact my doctor #I hate the American healthcare system #been on these meds for almost five years #this is the longest time #I’ve been unmedicated #unplanned #cold turkey #sucks #i need medication

[warcats-cat]

Hh so I know I ask this a lot but if anyone finds that post about how to deal with hospital debt in America please link me to it or tag me.

I just got a bill from the emergency department for my visit from last month and it's over $2000 and I know my parents always tell me not to worry but I've *never* gotten a bill that high and I,,, thought I saved that post in my references because I have to go to specialist doctors/ the hospital a lot but I can't find it in my tags...

#warcats rambles #help warcats #please #please don't feel obligated to donate to my kofi thats not what this is about #i can figure it out with my mom and dad i just want to be able to help #and right now i can barely keep up with my student loan payments #i knew we shouldn't have gone #it was just a kidney stone #i hate the American healthcare system

[voxtism]

had a friend make a "haha bad teeth" joke and I went hatred about the American healthcare system mode

id in image description :3

also the text below (just in case tumblr destroys image quality)

its rlly rough for people with bad teeth to get any sort of treatment bc its horrific how very few dentists will accept medicare/medicaid/medical :/ its not just that they have 'meth/drug teeth" or that they "ate too much sugar" its that the healthcare system is designed to fuck over the poor. poverty begets more poverty, and it's so fucking hard to get jobs, even low paying ones, when you have "grew up poor, grew up abused, drug addict" teeth. real life example, when my dad finally got full custody of little my brother, there were literal holes in my baby brothers teeth. my brother was 3 years old. and he was lucky enough for them to be baby teeth, bc that meant pulling them had little long term effect, besides him needing braces later in teen years, but that's just one way that my mother fucked us over. she didnt take care of him, she never brushed his teeth, she didnt feed him, it was all so horrific to learn about years later. and i am afraid to think about what it's like for the kids who... weren't saved. who didn't get out. who couldn't grow up with healthy teeth, who grew up poor, who grew up with parents like my mom. its honestly rlly awful how people consider bad teeth to be a character flaw, or something, when in reality.... its poverty? its lack of access to healthcare?? its the medical system fucking over poor people in every way possible.

obviously i am not mad but i am just thinking a lot about it now

#abuse cw #abuse mention #abuse ment tw #child abuse tw #^safety obviously #I hate the American healthcare system!

[angelnumber27]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDIMG ME

I’ve already been off of shit suffering for weeks and now this.. why do things always happen hahahah.

Like even if I could pay for it nope sorry were out 🤷🏻‍♀️ bitch this isn’t a condiment how are you just “out” 😭😭😭😫😫😫🫠🫠🫠

#I hate the fucking American healthcare system #it says this for multiple of my prescriptions too. #that I need like. now #it’s not like I can pay for it anyway.. just gonna have to deal with living like this #unable to focus on shit crying nonstop body aches weird dizziness etc etc etc

[elvni]

any other disabled girlies get dubbed the friend group doctor bc of their obscure in-depth knowledge they've gained from being traumatized by the american healthcare system

#disability #disabled #american health system #american healthcare #love knowing more than doctors #doctor #oh my god i hate the healthcare system #jesus christ

[dangraccoon]

ugh.

I'm sorry I've been so absent. I'm really trying to post more for you all.

more info under the cut

i think ive mentioned that i have various health issues and conditions before

the big ones affecting me right now are seasonal affective disorder, fribromyalgia/chronic pain syndrome, and plantar fasciitis in both feet and on top of all that, i am currently transitioning.

theres a lot of financial strain on me at the moment; my fiance's income is the only one we have. i'm too disabled to work a regular job but not disabled enough to receive disability income. thanks america. but yeah i owe over $1400 to various medical offices in addition to the ongoing copays for my various meds (a month's worth of t is $60), thanks america, AND i'm about to turn 26 next month, after which i will no longer be able to be on my parents' health insurance, thanks america.

all that to say that if i continue to be somewhat absent I'm very sorry

#dangwriting #about dang #fuck i hate it here #medical issues #american health system #it sucks #im 26 years old #ive been diagnosed with 7 disorders conditions or syndromes #9 if you dont count having something in both sides of your body as one item #i hate the american healthcare industry #healthcare should be socialized

[bluesey-182]

I've been sitting in the exam room for over 30 minutes waiting for my doctor and I'm literally just here for her to approve that i still need a xanax prescription

#i hate the american healthcare system 👍 #text post

[saygeadvice]

#gotta love murica #spoonie #invisible illnesses get ignored #you don't look sick #there's a reason it's called medical “practice” #American Healthcare system #trans broken leg syndrome also applies #chronic illness #invisible illness #but you don't look sick #i'm fine #it's fine #everything is fine #i hate this country

[turn4theworse]

->RANT<-

I just had a memory of my shitty autism assessment appointment. The doctor asked MY MOM if I had a history of stomach issues, and she said no, despite the fact that I do, all the fucking time. I just don’t fucking talk to her about it bc it’s weird. This exemplifies a bigger issue I had with that appointment in general. All questions related to actual symptoms were asked to my mom, whereas I was just pelted with question after question about my anxiety and depression timeline. The only person not asked about my autism symptoms was me, the actual person being diagnosed.

#autism #autistic experiences #autistic problems #I fucking hate the current diagnosis system #fuck that Doctor too he clearly did not care what I had to say and he constantly invalidated me when I did try to speak up #fuck america #american healthcare #ableist nonsense #ableist bullshit