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I’m be real, and ain’t nobody wanna hear this but…
Even with full health insurance, most hospitals and doctors in my 50 mile radius area either do not accept patients or are booked out to 5 months. I really think we have a educational problem that’s leading to not enough qualified doctors. I also see a lot of “Nurse Practitioners” and actual MDs that are running rounds at multiple area hospitals.
Not only does DJT know that Democrats won’t pass Universal Healthcare (setting them up for failure), but doing so would lead to cutting corners on actually educating qualified doctors, possibly leading to more harm than good.
IMO the bigger issue is education, planning, and prioritizing. We (as a Nation) can’t go all in on Universal Healthcare without planning and prioritizing education and ensuring that our system can handle the flood of new patients.
Healthcare is being run as a business with “just in time” supply and demand, overworking the workers who are willing to work overtime to save patients, cutting fat and trimming operations until it is a lean machine that when you take anything away would sputter. That is the ideal neoliberal image of healthcare. We saw how that worked out with Covid. Some areas should be inefficient and have “fat”.
And of course the burocracy mandated by private insurance.
They are booked out, because the insurance makes them go thru mutliple loops, wasting an insane amount of time. My dentist had to make 4 separate appointments for a root canal/crown, because the insurance required proving each sub-procedure, with x-ray for each one of them, that otherwise wouldn’t be required. and I could’ve had it done in two.
Education isn’t the bottleneck, residency is. Plenty of qualified doctors coming out of med school that don’t get residency, so they have to try again next year (and compete against fresh grads).
Raising residency limits is, of course, unpopular because it means more doctors, which means less demand, so less pay to cover med school loans…and nobody wants med school to cost less. Least of all the people buying up those loans. Read: rich folk that live on investments.
The rate at which new doctors are trained in the USA has historically been bottlenecked by the number of residency program slots available. Hospitals financially benefit from each resident they employ, but not as much as they do from adding other roles, instead (such as nurses). Also, it is not trivial to create a new residency program or expand an existing one (accreditation requirements, other fixed costs, etc.). This is why 25 % of USA physicians are immigrants. The Republicans have also made it more expensive to get loans for medical school, which will discourage some people from going to med school in the future, although the insufficient supply of residency slots might still end up being the bottleneck.
Damn, it’s a more multi-faceted issue than I had guessed. The U.S. sure has a long uphill battle ahead…
I don’t understand why we need a plan.
When cheif of the fire department needs more people; They hire more.
When the chief of police needs more deputies; They hire more.
When the chief of medicine needs more nurses… Wait we don’t have a cheif of medicine? Hu. Werid…
the chief, is actually the hospital admin, think CUDDY from house, shes the 'boss" of that hospital.
You’re really falling for the fascist lie of “people are getting dumber”
Is it really a fascist lie?
At least in the U.S. the educational burden has certainly increased. The cost of living, the closing of schools and combining of districts, the stagnant wages of teachers, the shortage of teachers due to the stagnation, the automation of jobs is removing apprenticeships, LLMs do not teach as well as doing things hands on. The influence of social media is still a strong pull and media literacy feels like it’s at a low in the U.S.
I have a feeling in the next decade we’re going to start seeing the consequences as boomers age out of legacy jobs and automation takes the place where educated workers used to.
Yes. It is a fascist lie.
And education != intellect, education teaches people how to harness the intellect they already have more effectively. A metaphor is “everyone has flour, education teaches you how to make it into bread”
Another key point, to fill the gap caused by extremely expensive Higher Education, self-teaching has become a booming market.
Stuff like Online Courses that give a degree if you pay, but all the material is given for free.
wages are definitely stagnant for teachers, we had people arguing in the subs, that they are relatively “high” in certain places, but the COL negates the wages a bit. like here it takes 10years being a teacher to get even 100k, with the hcol, its way less than that. i wonder if teachers even stay that long and, if 70k is really the starting salary. im also hearing districts are using SUBSTITUTES instead to lower the cost of hiring a full time teacher.
Weird how a for-profit system chugs along just fine, but not when it’s not profit driven. No, then there’s a sudden education and staff shortage!
You’re being irrational
You can open the floodgates but if a plan is not in place to displace the water it’ll overcome the system.
The for-profit system is also already slow as balls. It chugs along fine at a snails pace.
To say there’s not a educational shortage on degrees that take up to 8+ years in a country that is already facing an educational deficit I think is the real irrational. Planning is an important step that shouldn’t just be left as an afterthought.
In Canada when they implemented dental care they did it progressively by age group, that could help a bit with the issues you’re describing.
The number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the USA is healthcare. At this point, what is worse, losing everything to a massive dumpster fire, US healthcare, waiting for treatment or croaking because your health insurance sucks shit.
The hardest part of American healthcare is buying the tickets to Europe or Mexico for the affordable operation.
2nd one is likely student debt loan, from expensive private universities.
It’s something like 90% of Americans avoid going to the doctor at all if they can help it, 5 months is a lot less time then never. Also demand drives supply, more patients means more need for clinics, imaging centers, hospitals, doctors, nurses, universities etc. universal healthcare could be a financial boon
Bad if you hate certain people.
I hate uncertain people
Why? 😰
Because I’m certain but they are not
I’m not certain
He made a similar statement during 24 campaign that if Harris won we’d all have to live with everyone having healthcare. Party has been doublethinking on this for a long time.
Only if you’re a racist prick, which Trump voters are
Threatening people with good times
Conservatives: well we already believe a story written by men thousands of years ago, we aren’t about to stop now lol
Their evil is showing
This can’t possibly be a real quote.
Trump Warns That if Kamala Harris Wins, ‘Everybody Gets Health Care’
August 15, 2024
Damn… though I don’t believe for a second it is true….
Edit: that we’d all have health care if Harris won that is.
Have you ever met a republican before? Like others pointed out, GOP voters absolutely hate when someone besides them benefits from something, even if it means they get to benefit as well. They are the most selfish voters in existence.
this is a real thing he said, but it was in 2024
OP is a new second time, just to be clear.
OP is a new second time, just to be clear.
you sound very confident but you are mistaken. just to be clear: the screenshot in the post shows a still from the same video as the 2024 tweet i linked.
What?
You should warn people that you’re posting a Twitter link before someone accidentally clicks on it. Not every Lemmy instance/app offers link previews.
Uh…
…“I’m AOC and I approve this message”?
Every Democrat with 2+ brain cells should be running his words as ads against him
Meanwhile, everyone is required to have car insurance. Priorities.
It’s a dogwhistle! If you don’t hear it, congrats on not being racist
Ohhhhh… wow.
That is… I don’t even know.
These people are vile.
I don’t hear it as the first thing when someone says something about healthcare for all (which anyway is pretty much a thing in my country already), but I’m jaded enough to understand what he really means by now.
Coming from the guy who looks like he desperately needs it despite having access to the best doctors in the world.
…and he still has the gall to shit on them at his rallies.
Like bro, if it wasn’t for those specific doctors and the “do no harm” clause, YOU. WOULD. BE. DEAD!
They’re a cabal of paedophiles and C grade extras from “central casting” whose only agenda is to destroy America (and democracy in general) for their Russian kontrollers who script these events for the media
Zero sum game thinking.
“If other people are getting health care then there won’t be any left for me!”
That’s why people hear that and agree / are afraid
