Americans spend more time living with diseases than rest of world, study shows
American Medical Association finds people in US are sick for an average of 12.4 years, an increase from figure in 2000
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Because most of us can't afford to get ANY care and our doctors never listen, or when they do listen, they aren't allowed to provide care unless it makes someone a bunch of money. They make this all a game with our literal lives as the pawns.
I haven't been to a doctor in over twenty years now. For most of that time, either I didn't have insurance or my insurance was so laughably bad and my wages so low that I couldn't afford to use it. Now I've got a decent job and decent insurance, but the nearest doctor accepting patients is over 50 miles away.
Guess all I can do is cross my fingers and hope whatever kills me does it quick.
I hear there is a 9mm solution to this problem
Also because our health is already predisposed to being garbage compared to other countries thanks to our obesity crisis. Of course while that should be treated at the source like the UK is doing by e.g. not allowing junk food companies to advertize directly to kids, the healthcare system has a huge role to play in that too.
Need physical therapy? Get fucked. Can't exercise because of a chronic, unhealed injury? Fucked. Mental health disorder keeping you from being active and eating well? Mega fucked. Eating disorder? Fucked. Quality of life destroyed by treatable obesity complications? Fucked. Can't afford a variety of healthy foods because you're trapped in medical debt? Fucked. Need medical intervention for weight loss? Fucked. Have a GI disorder and need to see a dietitian to plan a diet? Fucked.
Treating it at the source is absolutely crucial, but for people already caught in the whirlpool of obesity, privatized healthcare is categorically failing them.
Need physical therapy? Get fucked. Can't exercise because of a chronic, unhealed injury? Fucked. Mental health disorder keeping you from being active and eating well? Mega fucked.
I'm in this comment multiple times and it's as depressing as it sounds.
Also because our health is already predisposed to being garbage compared to other countries thanks to our obesity crisis. Of course while that should be treated at the source like the UK is doing by e.g. not allowing junk food companies to advertize directly to kids
The real source is car-dependency -- i.e., bad zoning policy.
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Or when they do listen all they do is treat symptoms instead of understanding or going after the underlying cause.
Because treating the symptom will get you out of the office quicker so their employer can make more money off of an overworked doctor providing subpar care.
20 minute chat with my doctor, that led to effectively nothing. $430. The system is fucked.
