Posted on 01/19/2023 9:31:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- For the first time in Gallup’s two-decade trend, less than half of Americans are complimentary about the quality of U.S. healthcare, with 48% rating it “excellent” or “good.” The slight majority now rate healthcare quality as subpar, including 31% saying it is “only fair” and 21% -- a new high -- calling it “poor.”
The latest excellent/good rating for U.S. healthcare quality is just two percentage points lower than in 2021; however, it is well below the 62% high point twice recorded in the early 2010s. It also trails the average 55% reading since 2001.
These findings are from Gallup’s annual Health and Healthcare survey. The latest update was conducted Nov. 9-Dec. 2, 2022.
A key reason views of U.S. healthcare quality have been trending downward in recent years is that Republicans’ positive ratings have been subdued since President Donald Trump left office. Currently, 56% of Republicans rate healthcare quality as excellent or good, whereas 69% felt this way in 2020 and 75% in 2019. Republicans’ views of healthcare quality also dropped in 2014 after implementation of the Affordable Care Act before rebounding under Trump. Meanwhile, Democrats’ positive ratings have been steady at a lower level (currently 44%).
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I retract what I said in that many elderly living in border towns would only need to cross the border. I see your point and you are right.
But I still stick by what I said about elderly not being able to travel thousands of miles to the border.
Aside from the recent covid debacle I find our healthcare system to be very good. Short wait for appointments, respectful and caring doctors and good treatment. Granted I have not been hospitalized since 1991 but the outpatient procedures I’ve had have been great.
My mom died in 2021 after a week in the hospital and then about 24 days in a critical care rehab near our house. Frankly I don’t know how she could have gotten better care. The staff at the hospital and the care center were very good and sympathetic people.
Lowering the standards for medical students for “diversity and inclusion” isn’t helping at all.
“A key reason views of U.S. healthcare quality have been trending downward in recent years is that Republicans’ positive ratings have been subdued since President Donald Trump left office.”
CODWALLOP!
The reason views of healthcare quality are trending downward is that it sucks. If I ran a business like healthcare is run I would not be in business long at all. The system is neglectful, inefficient, uncaring and over priced. We don’t need national healthcare for healthcare to appear as a monopoly; it is a monopoly and behaves as one.
Rural healthcare is not, maybe more like benign neglect. Big city healthcare may be worse being active neglect in many cases. The burbs and money seem to do well enough though.
We may as well have national health care, we would at least maybe pay for what we get.
“They will need another gimmick and a better extended track record to revive their profession.”
They don’t care. It’s a business now.
You need to pay >$100 for a doctor to tell you you need pink stuff for your kid, which you get for $50 from the pharmacy for $5.00 in antibiotics
It also costs you in time - waiting at the doctors office, travelling back and forth from the pharmacy, and working with insurance paperwork.
I know all the arguments against it from doctors, but if you had amoxicillin in your medicine cabinet, the vast majority of the time you could just treat your kid at home and dispense with the cost, expense, and risk of dealing with the medical complex.
Works for sheep, cows and chickens.
Love having to go to a GP just to be diagnoised then I need to come back for a procedure, then get a referral for a specialist.
Nickel and dime. “That’s a different issue, you’ll need to come back for that.”
“I don’t care about your observations, here’s a pill...and PLEASE...don’t tell me about anything but the most common drug side effects. If its not a common side effect you are just a nutjob”.
“How DARE you question my blanket diagnoses!”
Very tired of medical doctors who can never be asked to justify their opinions.
My wife used to work in HR at Dartmouth-Hitchcock hospital. You can’t imagine the arrogant, self-righteous condescending talk and behavior from these medical ‘professionals’. It was disgusting. So self-entitled. Like spoiled kids.
short wait for appts is very geographically dependent.
I used to live in MN. No problem. Get in the next day.
In New England or Montana...if your doctor has already GRACIOUSLY ‘accepted’ you as a new patient (I was told in NH “Congradulations Griffin, Dr. so and so has decided to accept you as a patient!”), then maybe you can get an appt in 2 weeks....if you have not been seen before and you have not been chosen to be a patient, well, we don’t care if your coughing up blood or need that immediate heart stress test....you are lucky to get in next month. No kidding.
My doctor is holding my blood pressure medication hostage somthat I make an appointment.
Total arrogance IMO
Health care delivery.. okay.
Health Insurance? Another story entirely.
I see you up until non-clinical admins. Worst ones are clinical because they can’t manage budgets/compliance due to a lot of different biases.
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