I find it sad that US Health Care only helps the rich and kills the poor am I right or what?

In the US if you are rich, a celebrity, sports star or just flat out rich you can get better health care than if u were poor or struggling with money. The rich get super treatment with state of the art hospital care, drugs that actually work and taken care of perfectly. while the lower classes and poor have to fill out paper work before they get treatment while they are in pain! Get tossed all kinds of drugs as if they were dummies. Get different and uneducated advice from the uneducated doctors who are only in it for the money and social status. What a sad state of affairs. Cant wait to see Micheal Moores new film "Sicko" that describes the horrors of the US Health Care system that fails the working class and poor but feeds the rich with all the luxuries fit for only the wealthy.
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ABSOLUTELY TRUE NIKE!!!! Its only for the rich and upper white class. They came and wiped out the native peoples and enslaved the black man and even their own but they called them "white servants" go back to europe we dont want u here and never wanted u here. yay!!!

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No, you just whine too much... ByeDr.com is meant to be about people wanting answers to questions, not people getting on their soapbox about how good or bad their health care systems are. Go get a job then you could afford health insurance. And stop whining.

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No, you are incorrect.

Once someone arrives at a hospital, they are admitted regardless of ability to pay or not. That's why so many hospitals, particulary those in low-income areas, are at risk of going under. If it was the way you said, they would be able to get rid of poorer people who couldn't afford health care and just let them die.

Perhaps people with more money and better policies have better access to specialists, etc. But at a time when Moore is putting out this "documentary", many in Britain are wondering if they should turn to a private system. What does that tell you?

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Nike,

I might agree with you if anything that you said was factual. "Uneducated advice from uneducated doctors" - which country are you describing? It isn't this one! I am nowhere near wealthy and I have received tremendous health care for years now. No doctor/nurse has "tossed me all sorts of drugs as if I were a dummy". I have been in pain at the time of hospital admittance and I did not "have to fill out paper work before I got treatment while I was in pain". Absurd! Questions on the medicine you take? Important question? Of course. Who is your doctor? Important question? Yes. Do you have insurance? Important if you have insurance but your company doesn't cover some types of treatment - they will use alternatives. Don't say that they will toss you in the street if you don't have insurance - never happen in this country!Please, don't be thick - we have a tremendous system. And yes, the wealthy, also citizens and children of God, get coverage for hospital care. Should we kill them because they are wealthy? Would that satisfy you? Please, you are smarter than that and can do much better.

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Well, the poor do not receive the quality health care the wealthier people receive. My ex wife did a residency in pediatrics and most of her patients were on Medicaid. The only healthcare that her patients were able to afford was seeing an intern, which was fresh out of medical school and haven't really gotten a chance to get their feet wet. Also, my ex told me that the hospital (which was affiliated with a university) tried to schedule only 20 minute appointments for the patients; for the hospital to increase revenue. So, in essence, she felt like she was never able to give a full and accurate diagnosis because of time constraints imposed by the hospital. If she did, she would fall behind on her recommended number of patients a day and be reprimanded.
It is a self perpetuating problem that will never be solved:
(1)Better quality healthcare service (longer time spent per patient) = less revenue, which means, shareholders, owners and administration of the facility are unhappy. Doctors are happy in treating and preventing illnesses.
(2)Poor quality healthcare service (quicker patient turnover times) = more revenue, which means shareholders, owners and administration are happy. Doctors feel like they aren't making as much of a difference in the health of the patient. Doctors are disappointed.

Unfortunately, you can't make everyone happy.

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