Millennials are skipping doctor visits to avoid high healthcare costs (study finds)

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.statista.com/chart/8658/...ng-per-capita/


I wonder why people, not just Millenials, are trying to avoid the doctor?

Oh, and I wonder what happens when there is no Medical Privacy? Pay more for illnesses that are beyond your control to do anything about? Sounds about right. When all Medical Privacy is completely eliminated, do you think that those costs will get better, or worse? Hint: this is 'murika where the rich make more by providing lower quality services and products for as high of a possible cost as can be achieved...

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Related RPF Thread:

America's #1 Again (In Healthcare Costs Around The World)
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...83#post6439783

Noting that most of the countries on that list have socialized, single payer medicine systems. Medical privacy? In those countries, the government has access to all your medical data. A significant part of our costs (some estimate 40% or more) is due to overhead- the costs of handling all the paperwork involved. That is also the highest in the world. When you have multiple insurance companies with multiple different coverages and different forms each one needs that takes lots of time.

[DamianTV]

Noting that most of the countries on that list have socialized, single payer medicine systems. Medical privacy? In those countries, the government has access to all your medical data. A significant part of our costs (some estimate 40% or more) is due to overhead- the costs of handling all the paperwork involved. That is also the highest in the world. When you have multiple insurance companies with multiple different coverages and different forms each one needs that takes lots of time.

Youre sooooooo right. We should just give up and let them take all our Medical Privacy, not for actual medical usefulness, but so each of us can pay our "fair share" based on information gathered from that same Medical Invasion of Privacy for BILLING purposes. And we should pay 90,000 for drugs if we have MS, be denied for anything and everything for any form of Preexisting Medical Condition, allow medical marijuana to be made illegal once again as it should be, obey our reptillian overlords, ground our Tinfoil Hats so they dont act as amplifiers, consume Roundup With Glyphosate, not actually treat medical conditions, and shoulder the financial burdens despite having some sort of Mandatory Health Insurance and not Health Care (in its current evolving form), and have no control of our persons what so ever.

Please go take a long hike off a short dock.

[Zippyjuan]

Youre sooooooo right. We should just give up and let them take all our Medical Privacy, not for actual medical usefulness, but so each of us can pay our "fair share" based on information gathered from that same Medical Invasion of Privacy for BILLING purposes. And we should pay 90,000 for drugs if we have MS, be denied for anything and everything for any form of Preexisting Medical Condition, allow medical marijuana to be made illegal once again as it should be, obey our reptillian overlords, ground our Tinfoil Hats so they dont act as amplifiers, consume Roundup With Glyphosate, not actually treat medical conditions, and shoulder the financial burdens despite having some sort of Mandatory Health Insurance and not Health Care (in its current evolving form), and have no control of our persons what so ever.

Please go take a long hike off a short dock.

Wow. I did not claim all of that. Or any of it. I was merely pointing out one reason ours costs more than in those other countries.

[DamianTV]

Wow. I did not claim all of that. Or any of it. I was merely pointing out one reason ours costs more than in those other countries.

No, what you suggest is a continuation of the problem, and exacerbation of it.

[Zippyjuan]

No, what you suggest is a continuation of the problem, and exacerbation of it.

Actually I didn't suggest anything.

[RJB]

At least in the crowd I hang out with, unless it's something like a fracture or something serious, most medical care is seen as worthless unless you want to get narcotics.

[opal]

Several years ago, I thought I broke my foot. I went to a neighborhood walk in clinic.. that I thought had an ex ray machine. They didn't. Hubby schlepped me to the local hospital, where they sat me down for "intake" and told me that just that script, a couple pictures of my foot would be $1050.00. I told them to pound salt - and had to fight to get my prescription back. They thought I should sit down and start the paperwork for financial aid. At the time, I didn't have insurance.
I went home and called around to a bunch of imaging places.. drove an hour (most things were an hour away) and had the pics done for $93.. cash rate - which I still thought was outrageous. This was before obamacare