, 30% of U.S. physicians said they felt burned out in late 2022, and about as many said they’d considered leaving the profession in the previous six months.
But these problems didn’t start with the pandemic, says Lori Knutson, executive director of the Whole Health Institute, a nonprofit focused on improving health care delivery. “We should all be honest,” she says, “about the fact that health care has been slowly imploding for a period of time.” The insurance system is also endlessly confusing, says Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School. Doctors may not know how much the tests they’re recommending cost, particularly when every patient has a different type and level of coverage, so surprise bills are common—and so hard to understand that patients often have to spend hours on the phone seeking clarity from their insurance providers.estimated that dealing with insurance companies costs the U.S.
Burned out. Well I think the healthcare business is stepping up to make the process uniform. Ideally they will acquire both billing and insurance away from the medical middleman. Recommendations for them would be Hippocratic. All cleaned up.
Must be liberal burnout.
And your government spent $200 millions per day, in Ucranian war, don’t complain
How about when they do agree to see u they dismiss u for being young or because the have never seen your symptoms before send u home and a month later after still suffering from the same symptoms yo get billed for over 150 dollars WITH INSURANCE…HOW ABOUT THAT FOR HEALTH CRISIS
Well, like everything else - maybe you should get government out of the mix and free the market... And don't try to tell me Healthcare in the US is a free market. Medicare/caid cover the poor and elderly who consume most Healthcare, hence the government has a monopoly over it.
So you’re saying Obamacare did not fix it, right? Lots of promises were made are you saying they were all bull crap?
Our healthcare system went to shit with Covid. It’s a bunch of lazy doctors who want to just do video calls and rely on blood test results rather than doing a physical examination. If you can get an appointment it’s 2 months after symptoms start showing.
Medicare for all would fix the entire FOR PROFIT MEDICAL SYSTEM problem
Too much insurance paperwork to be done by the Doctors and hospitals. We need 'Universal Healthcare' like the rest of the Western World!
I didn’t know the U. S. had a National Health System besides Medicare/Medicaid. The U.S. has a for profit, open market Health Care System if I’m not mistaken. I’m burned out from Profiteering by Insurance Corporations and the highest medical/drug cost in the Free World Market.
It’s a crime what big pharma did to Theranos
Patients? How about they healthcare providers?
It’s always about the money not about the patients in our so called health care system. We have more physician’s assistants than doctors and there will be more and more foreign doctors coming to the United States because of a doctor shortage.
中共又灌臭气恶心本人，中国人支那猪真它妈的低贱人种！ 才会有中国共产党邪恶反人类政权！
Wasn’t ObamaCare supposed to fix this?
Quit going to the doctor for every sniffle
Also the UK.
It doesn’t help that thanks to Senile Joe we have 5 million new illegal immigrants in our ERs!!
I struggled for 2 yrs to find a PCP, choices are limited & often takes months to get an appointment. I thought I had found someone but after the first appointment I realized I should keep looking. Customer Service is outsourced to foreign companies and can exacerbate the issue.
It's not binary USA. We went from 1 bit computing to 64 bit computing thanks to California. It's not Socialism or Capitalism. There are a thousand points in between.
I’m old enough to remember when the GOP argument against universal healthcare was you didn’t have to wait long for appointments. LOL
Doctor s shortage and finding a doctor who is compassionate and yet who won't pry into your personal life is hard to find. Most doctor s and their staff have a problem respecting or obeying the privacy law... K Dixie
Stop using the ER for non emergency visits ! And a place to sleep your high off !
So are the providers (and all staff).
Burned out? 65,000 a year ARE FUCKING DEAD as a result of healthcare denial corporations who can only make a profit by denying claims.
Lack of public healthcare is the US's greatest weakness.
Maybe if more people took some proactive role in their personal wellbeing, we wouldn't have this problem? Maybe going for walks is good? Maybe we aren't healthy at any size?
Socialize medicine like all the rest of the world's competent civilized countries. Quality will not suffer, and no more price gouging. Health care will improve... Amazing isn't it?
The USA... Where you are free to pay a whole lot for healthcare, and also free to spend the time you're not working to pay for healthcare, to research the price of healthcare, and you're also free to have healthcare fundraisers.
Well duh
People have refinanced their home and have taken out personal loans to pay off their medical debt. The ones with good insurance just update their kitchen counter.
I got treatment at a hospital in NC. They didn't tell me upfront that the bill would be over 5,000 dollar. 3,000 alone for the ct scan. Same scan gets done near the Mall of Georgia in a hospital for 400 dollars
The worst thing I've come across is that your primary doctor does NOTHING. You have to see him first, for him to then refer you to someone else. You pay both. All doctors belong to a health system...promoting multiple doctors within their network. The patient loses.
The state of the health care system in the US is disgraceful. Health care insurance is ridiculously expensive and useless in many cases as very high medical bills still reach you! When is this ever going to get fixed in this country?
I'm old enough to remember when the Republican argument against universal healthcare was that we'd have to wait months to see our doctor. Heh.
That’s fine because you don’t have enough doctors and nurses to service the population adequately as it is.
And it is even worse if you require mental health care. They are almost impossible to access or afford. This is a national crisis that the pandemic exposed.
…or we could take better care of ourselves so we have to see the doctor less often.
'Could' lol. I'm currently in a 6 month wait to see the only specialist in a 50 mile radius that takes my insurance. (Dozens of oon providers nearby tho) MedicareForAll
Haven’t been to a doctor in 6 years. Doing fine
Exactly! Needed an x-ray. 5 mins admittance to get a reference. Paid 80 👍
IAmSophiaNelson Not to mention having to take time off from work and arranging for transportation. Oh and during the 10 minutes, the doctor ignored what the patient tells them, and insists that it's either all in the patient's mind or would be alleviated by weight loss.
Then people claim the United States is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
There's a shortage of doctors in SanFrancisco , imagine the largest hospital system can't take new patients.
The people running the world are either extremely evil and corrupt, or they have no idea what the f* they’re doing. I believe it’s the former. The economic world is headed in the wrong direction. The global “elite” have hoarded the wealth to the detriment of the general populace.
The obvious solution is turning our entire healthcare system over to the most inefficient and incompetent organization in America: the federal government. They will be able to cover 10s millions more while dramatically reducing overall healthcare costs. It’s simple mathematics.
COVID is a shining example of how great the doctor's in America are. It's not all their fault but one of the only way a doctor can make a profit is by selling certain prescriptions, like Adderall for example.
GOVERNMENTS locked us down!! Hold them accountable. Challenging the COVID19 response - retired UK police officer, David Dickson. Analysis of manipulated government data for control of a population. How many suffered and died from these lies?
Health care in general sucks in the US….. cost are out of control, deductibles, and the amount insurance doesn’t pay……. Why do we even have it or forced to have it
It's not just the US health care system. Our system in Canada is a shambles. Same with the UK and Australia's is struggling. Demographics are cratering in the western world and boomers are overwhelming health care everywhere.
Not yet, but the Zeal Corporation is fighting for legislation which would allow American health insurance companies to literally burn out their customers and sell their smoked remains to recoup any payments made on their behalf.
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Thank a democrat
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