• Taldan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    He pushed trough healthcare reforms (that I am not qualified to judge)

    I’m pretty qualified to judge: It’s not good.

    I don’t really blame Obama too much, but he shouldn’t have compromised. The result was worse than nothing. It allowew our broken healthcare system to keep getting worse, and now we’re getting close to catastrophic failure

    American healthcare is effectively a massive bubble. There is so much inefficiency that we now have a significant portion of the population employed in healthcare that will lose their job with any healthcare reform

    We live in a society where frequent flyers waste healthcare resources every single day. An ambulance to and from the hospital daily, an ER doc to check them out and determine they’re faking yet again. All because they refuse all mental health treatment

    We also live in a society where healthcare professionals feel they have to dodge the ambulance after a serious head injury, simply because they can’t afford it

    I’m thinking of two specific cases here, but the whole system is broken. We have hospitals going bankrupt at a record pace, while paying more for healthcare than any other country, by far

    • tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyz
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      2 days ago

      Thanks for the insight. Just recently I read elsewhere that it’s still better than what is was before. But yeah, I can’t judge, so happy to hear opinions.