Probably followed by “lack of trust” as a close second.
That’s part of it.
The other part is doctors who don’t give a rip about you when you come to them with a real problem they have to work at to solve.
The medical community has destroyed people’s trust in it all by themselves.
Fortunate indeed, is the person who goes to them for help and actually benefits from it.
Once upon a time, health care was generally affordable, unless you were poor, and then you couldn’t afford it, or got crap service.
That situation was unacceptable to the socialists who set about “transforming America”. Now no one can really afford health care, and it’s all crap service. Leveled that playing field real well.
Thanks, Obama.
The more the government helps people afford a good or service the more unaffordable the good or service will become without the help. Eventually the effort runs short on funds but the effects of the meddling in the industry live on making the product worse and less affordable.
The cost of healthcare really is out of control.
If people really want affordable health care, these are the things that need to change.
1. Get the lawyers out. Seriously, this is driving up the cost by multiples of 3-5 times (probably more IMHO). You can’t control anything until you control the lawyers.
2. Separation of insurance companies, hospitals, and physicians. They can’t own one another. Area monopolies are becoming a big problem.
3. Force people to have health care insurance (or be in a co-op), it can’t be ‘optional’ anymore.
4. Reduce medication expenses by ALWAYS giving people a generic option.
5. People need really important understanding of cost versus ‘success’ for many diseases. Spending a million dollars for chemo to extend life 2-3 months doesn’t make sense.
Now the medical community is a wing of the US Government and the left, and no longer your doctor, the trust factor is gone.
Yup, just like education, the prices get higher when the government tentacles grow.
For this, you can thank health insurance.
Think about it: What if you had an insurance card for groceries. Go to the store, simply fill your grocery cart and check out using the card. Now be honest, what would keep everybody, including you, from buying anything and everything they wanted—expensive cuts of meats, high dollar foods—regardless of the cost? Why would it matter? Somebody else is paying for it. Eventually the price of everything would skyrocket, becoming too expensive for everyone.
This is the way our healthcare system works now. Everyone is buying all the healthcare they want, regardless of the cost. And why not? Somebody else is paying for it. (And what makes it worse is that the government is paying for the insurance card for a large number of those people).
Just what I was going to post, Ocare was SUPPOSED to solve this problem as with EVERYTHING else the government does problem NOT SOLVED!! Also under Obama was the ENORMOUS amount of money for infrastructure which NEVER happened because all those shovel ready jobs were NOT shovel ready!! WHERE the hell is all the money designated for all of the infrastructure???
I have five doctors and my health is not bad.
Take a trip to Mexico, discard all belongings, walk back across the border and say your name is Humano, and you will get all the medical help you need.