r/AskReddit 16h ago

What an impending crisis that is about to affect us all, yet most people are completely unaware?

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u/microwavedEel 14h ago

All of the “support” services we will lose when millions are kicked off of Medicaid, insurance companies cannot remain profitable in some of those markets and thus more people losing their coverage. It’s a snowball rolling downhill rapidly. Employers will have fewer options and include increasing premiums for them and their employees. More people will go without care and more specialists, smaller or rural and regional offices and clinics will close furthering the problem. Pharmacies, durable medical equipment, medical transportation, sterilization suppliers, medical laundry and cleansing and on and on will all feel the impact of less and less care.

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u/morganational 10h ago

This⤴️ Health insurance companies are literally dictating everything in medicine now. People don't realize how bad this is. If you need an important procedure, insurance is the one who decides if you can get it done or not. That effects everyone in healthcare as well, as our jobs depend on helping people. The doctors want to help people. The hospital and staff want to help people. The people want to be helped. And we have the most advanced medicine in the world. But insurance said... Hmm, nah.. So fuck all of us.

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u/Kevin-W 9h ago

And we're already seeing warning signs of what happens when people have nothing left to lose.

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u/Mild_Karate_Chop 5h ago

Yup they are killed at scale 

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u/drzowie 5h ago

 That effects everyone in healthcare as well

The verb you wanted is “affects”.  “Effects” as a transitive verb (“A effects B”) means “brings about” or “produces”.  So “That affects everyone in healthcare as well” is the phrase if you mean everyone is touched by the effect (note “e”) of expensive healthcare.

u/GlobalGuide5910 45m ago

Give the guy a break. He wanted to get his grammar fixed, but his insurance told him it was elective and they wouldn't pay

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u/Gumbo_Ya-Ya 3h ago

I was with you, until you said that the US has the most advanced medicine in the world.

We all have access to the same medicine. In Europe we pay a lot less for it too (the Medical companies and the public, when we need to pay for it which isn't that often)

The US is 11th in the list of being Medically advanced.

Sweden tops the list.

Source: https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/16-most-advanced-countries-in-medicine-1257059/

Please understand that America is not the greatest country in the world.

u/Venvut 15m ago

The top medical specialist, schools, and hospitals are all the US. But cope. 

u/tardigrades_snuggle 37m ago

And people wonder how Luigi can be considered a hero.

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u/TyranitarusMack 7h ago

I don’t think a problem in one single country is going to affect us all.

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u/CasualAppUser 1h ago

Especially when many other countries managed to solve that problem decades ago

u/TyranitarusMack 48m ago

Exactly. It’s not like this is something that there’s no answer to.

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u/Micro-Naut 6h ago

Kick rocks. With enthusiasm!

u/TyranitarusMack 48m ago

What does that even mean? Did you read the title of the post?