when you cant get or afford health insurance, you take what you can get.
There have been other times with a larger portion of society not covered by health insurance. So this makes less sense to be happening now simply based on access.
Having health insurance doesn’t equal having access to health care. I know a number of people who are technically insured but can’t afford a doctor’s visit.
50 million more people covered with ACA and that doesn’t mean anything?
That’s a fantastic change that happened, but it doesn’t change the fact that people like me have to spend 20k a year before my insurance actually starts paying for anything.
That really only matters for massive cost care, like hospitalization and surgery. ACA does not matter for the majority of people, as the deductible is usually significantly higher than the median net (post expenses) income of people.
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Going to have to say. Zoomers are just as dumb as Boomers. If not even worse. Because they have easy access to real knowledge. It’s just that they are not capable of digesting real information backed up by peer reviewed studies. They do the whole Vibe BS.
I’m scared they’re actually worse.
Boomers are arrogant, but they respected/feared the greatest generation (while resenting them because they knew they were nowhere near the same level).
Genz have no GG, they’re just angry narcissists out of control.
What’s funny about a lot of them. Is how weak they are. Us elder millennials were brutalized by our Gen X siblings. So we are experienced in physical beatings and abuse. At least where I grew up. I did bar security for years. I had my fun with Zoomers. They are a push over generation when it comes to stepping toe to toe. I’ve gone to war against them and found them lacking.
So. Let them be as mentally broken as they are. I will gladly rule them when the time comes.
Being abused doesn’t make you stronger, it makes you scarred.
Being in fights for a lot of my life. Has made me a stronger person. Getting punched in the face makes you realize how strong you are. I was abused in a Coal Mining community by bullies my whole life. They can be terrible people. But in the end it makes you stronger. Gen Alpha didn’t grow up in the same environment and it shows. Maybe if they got punched in the face more often. They wouldn’t be such cunts. Seems like these LOSERS weren’t put in their place in their lives. And it shows.
Let’s not generalize. Except for boomers they’re literally all trash and there should be a boomer genocide.
That was Covid. It just was kept quiet.
Wow, never thought about it that way, maybe COVID was a divine intervention.
Honestly, it’s about a similar standard of care. Doctors in the U.S. are too overworked to be helpful, most of my peers’ experience with doctors is getting ignored and belittled by them. Add on the amount of time and money that an appt can cost, and it’s not surprising that people are looking for an experience that at least gives them good vibes.
It’s because your friend spends more 10 minutes listening to you, sees you more often than twice a year, and is truly paying attention to your well being.
If Doctors had time to chat and get to know you, they might gain more trust. Even in countries with funded medical systems, the amount of time a health care provider spends getting to know you personally is way down.
Why would I believe a guy who spent 10 minutes with me barely listening over my buddy who I talk to every day? I’m not saying this is a good thing, but we know what builds trust and it’s not what you get in a healthcare setting.
Homeopathic practices (🤮) have great patient reviews not because they are providing better care, but because their standard appointment length is 45-90 minutes and the patient feels heard and understood in that time.
Don’t look up
Doctors just don’t know shit about a lot of stuff too. Other commenter said Gen z can’t read a scientific journal article or study, but shit I think half the doctors forgot that skill when they graduated. They also know next to fucking nothing about diet and preventative care.
It’s largely a problem with misusing specialty doctors and emergency rooms. There needs to be a decade long focus on more family medicine doctors and improving their workload and pay.
ER and urgent care doctors are trained in acute care and trauma. They aren’t trained or meant to handle chronic disease or preventative care, they are meant to handle after the bad thing happens.
Misinformation feels good and makes you feel like you have special, hidden knowledge. Professional advice is boring and mundane.
Doctors will also tell you to stop abusing substances, eat better, and exercise. This is because they think they’re better than you.
Professional advice costs your rent and is unironically tailored to white males (major acknowledged problem in medicine right now).
Its much cheaper to ask someone you know that has your issue how they treat it, since you know they also haven’t been to a doctor since they finished childhood vaccinations.
One is affordable…
Yikes.
Well, things like that happen if visiting a doctor is something you cannot afford because you are not insured.
Dr. Tiktok and Dr. Instagram, I presume.
You forgot Dr. WebMD and Dr. ChatGPT.
Dr. WebMD just tells you every disease is terminal. Dr. ChatGPT cites a reddit post that tells you a sore throat means you should kill yourself.
I tried, but can’t bear to read the “article,” which, being Axios, is merely a collection of blips instead of actual writing and journalism.
As for the headline, I’m pleased to see plenty of common sense in the comments here. Seeing an MD in America is difficult, expensive, time-consuming, often preachy, and frequently not worth the co-pay if you’re lucky enough to have insurance. “Health care providers” have made it such a hoop-jumpy and slow process, that when I’m ill seeing a doctor is about my fourth choice.
