A study by researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health found that avoidable mortality rose across all U.S. states from 2009 to 2021, while it declined in most other high-income countries.
That is exorbitant for most people for a basic doctor’s visit. Federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr. Takes an entire work week for a minimum wage worker to afford a doctor’s visit.
As other’s have explained to you, that is just a visit. It covers nothing else. No medication, no tests, no referrals. Just to talk to the Nurse Practitioner for 15 minutes. You will not be talking to the doctor.
Just brutal, I can’t imagine losing my job and home because I got sick. It’s been the case for many thousands of years typically, but it just seems so arbitrarily cruel to know that there’s a better system that’s been adapted (matter of opinion, I know), but strike it from consideration altogether because of the business model surrounding American healthcare. Paying higher taxes kind of sucks, but at least I’ve never had to remortgage for serious injuries.
That is exorbitant for most people for a basic doctor’s visit. Federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr. Takes an entire work week for a minimum wage worker to afford a doctor’s visit.
As other’s have explained to you, that is just a visit. It covers nothing else. No medication, no tests, no referrals. Just to talk to the Nurse Practitioner for 15 minutes. You will not be talking to the doctor.
Just brutal, I can’t imagine losing my job and home because I got sick. It’s been the case for many thousands of years typically, but it just seems so arbitrarily cruel to know that there’s a better system that’s been adapted (matter of opinion, I know), but strike it from consideration altogether because of the business model surrounding American healthcare. Paying higher taxes kind of sucks, but at least I’ve never had to remortgage for serious injuries.