Health Care Rights

Currently, patients have limited rights. Our healthcare system in the United States is barbaric and one huge monster besides. We willingly pay huge bills every time something goes wrong. Why are we so brainwashed? Do you normal folk realize that people are brainwashed? Why do you not care more about the heavy bills you will get? Hospital bills have massive errors often enough. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and that was my first introduction to the health care system in the United States. I haven’t tried health care elsewhere like in Spain or Chile since I’m half Spanish, half-Chilean. I consider myself American though, and I’m appalled at the way our health care system is seriously broken.

Patients have to dispute the hospital bill often enough. This doesn’t always mean that dispute is good for a patient’s mental health. The bizarre feature of why a doctor should be in-network or not is disgusting. Health care in the United States has sunk to a new low under 45. Sometimes we think, oh great, health care bills we have to pay, but do you really want to pay for everything? I want to campaign for health care reform, for starters.

We have some seriously backward rules, which means the network is not necessarily stable. If a physician leaves the network, that causes a deep rift in the patient care regimen since the physician will no longer be covered. You see, we citizens take this stuff lying down. We do not stand up for ourselves. We do not make the system pay. We do not protest. I’m concerned about the last part because making waves is part of a protest movement in general. I see none concerning health care rights even though I’m aware this month is Pride month.

Patients are not always informed about things like procedures, or conflicts of interest in which a doctor is caught promoting a certain medication without being objective. Health care is seriously broken in this country. We need to fix it, but people cling stubbornly to the old ways. By that, I mean that Republicans are not quick to bring about changes since they don’t like change due to their extremist perspective. An extremist doesn’t like changes anyway. Extremist viewpoints are wrong in any country so long as conservative thinking in the extreme exists.

Change is not coming fast enough even if there are claims that it is coming. They want to reintegrate the pre-existing condition clause, which I find is a terrible flaw. Government officials believe that they can lower the cost of prescription drugs due to new technology, but I disagree since this may not be what happens. Prescriptions make money, cures do not. Now, if we had a cure for something like type 1 diabetes, we would be giving it to everybody who wants it. But no, not everybody wants a cure. The Trump administration is supposed to take on prescription drug prices.

Prescriptions for people not on the dole are very expensive. Lily makes 12 value-based agreements, a system that supposedly saves patients money. I’m skeptical about anything healthcare related these days. If anything, some have an idea that hospitals post the costs for procedures online. I mean, the indignity of the American health care system is that you get sick, you feel bad, you get the bill, you feel worse.

Some say instead of insurance companies controlling the health care situation at large, there could be an independent entity. Will health care reform take many years? What do I do to talk Republicans into it? The pre-existing condition is not something that happens deliberately, it is something that happens by accident. Accidents do happen and I resent ignorant people who say it happens on purpose. No, it doesn’t, deal with that. Health care reform needs to happen still despite a Republican administration.

Works Cited

CNBC

Managed Healthcare

NY Times