‘It’s like I’m worthless’: hospitals dump patients on the street in Kentucky

Seems like a decent place to complain about my long experience. I had an undiagnosed problem with eating, which felt like an allergy that made me really tired. I couldn’t figure it out for years and I got more and more rundown. I’d ask doctors when I saw them for other stuff and they’d give me really useless answers or blow me off with something like “ONE problem per visit”. I was self-employed, no insurance, and a visit to UC was $400, which was over half the mortgage on my house at that time.

So anyway, finally I got too sick to work. It had already harmed my career, several relationships, my finances. It turned out I had Celiac disease and it was doing a lot more than just making me tired… causing skin problems, hair loss, nutrient deficiencies, headaches, chest pain, digestive instability, heartburn and more. Finally I got it under control after being diagnosed and then.. got really sick, which turned out to be type 1 diabetes, which is the autoimmune form. Pretty sure I only got that from having celiac undiagnosed for half my life. Almost died again.

Thankfully I have health care paid for now, but in the meantime the lovely American system almost killed me 2-3 times and completely ruined my career and productivity, all so some insurance people can make money and other people can pay less taxes. All in all the health care system is a huge drain on society. Back when Obama tried to reform it, hearing people say “it’s the best in the world!!” was such a joke.

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Yeah, like the guy was saying the way they were walking people out and leaving them just off the property is like how you'd leave a bag of trash out on the curb in New York.

Such inhumane treatment of patients, and it's awful they are sending patients to missions ill-equipped to deal with the medical issues that should be addressed and cared for at the institution they're being moved out of.

If that is what the US medical system calls proper healthcare, hospitals would be better off investing in garbage trucks over ambulances.

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"Well, Sir or Madam, what is your net worth?" [checks papers] "...uh, that doesn't look good."

This is why I'd have to win the lottery like real big time, to even consider visiting the US.

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I've had a cough for the last two months that's given me a hernia. Can't go to the doctor. It's fun here.

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- That sucks. Here in Spain I'm free to go to the doctor, she'll tell me "sorry, we only have 10 minutes, you can get another appointment for next week and we'll continue"... but at least it's something.
  
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It’s actually the other way around. You have insurance? Let’s check with them, okay it looks like we need to put you on a mild antibiotic (for your potential stage 3 cancer after they denied proper coverage), you should see improvement in 3-6 months.

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This is so Fucking sad! What the hell? I can’t believe a hospital dumped that person on at sidewalk and left them there! Terrifying

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Holy fuck is worse than horror movies

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That mistake in the Affordable Care Act that Biden promised to fix but has made no effort to.

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mistake

like there's a part of the most scrutinized, debated piece of legislation in the last 50 years that just whoopsiedoodle forgot to do the thing that was the primary purpose of the bill. that was no mistake, that was american citizens being sold down the river.

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that mistake in the ACA wait what??

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- The ACA has subsidies for health insurance that increase the lower your income is. Except if your income is too low, then you get no help affording health insurance. There's millions of Americans in this pit.
  
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There's no mistake and he won't fix it

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