Summary
Rising frustrations with the U.S. healthcare system have been amplified by increasing insurance claim denials and mounting costs.
Patients report prolonged battles to access doctor-recommended care, with surveys showing one in five privately insured Americans faced denial in 2022.
Anger has intensified following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, spotlighting issues like AI-based claim reviews and profit-driven practices.
While Trump’s upcoming administration proposes deregulation and privatization, critics warn this could worsen access.
Public distrust persists, but significant reforms appear unlikely as partisan debates stall progress in Washington.
Well we just voted in probably the worst person to “fix” our healthcare and who only has a “concept of a plan” regarding it. Sooo what can really happen?
If you were hoping to vote on healthcare reform, neither candidate supported a real change. Biden campaigned in 2020 on wanting to lower medicare to 60… mostly everyone supported healthcare for all from 2016-20’, and they all stepped back from that quickly.
Yeah but trump is unarguably worse on healthcare than anyone else on the ballot. We’re turbo fucked.
Well, I could split hairs and point at the libertarian party but I assume we’re only talking about harris/trump lol. Honestly Trump’s position on healthcare was probably better for his demographics than Harris’s stance for her democratic constituents. She didn’t appease anyone’s concern besides “Trump is worse” but couldn’t actually say how he would be worse since he didn’t have a plan. You couldn’t have gone back 4 months ago and talked about healthcare without someone distracting the conversation with fascism. It was a complete political flop that people are still blaming Trump voters for.
Are you suggesting that libertarians would have any interest in strengthening regulation and oversight of medical insurance?
They’re the party of lower regulation and less enforcement.
oh lol definitely not, it was a response to “trump is unaguably worse on healthcare than anyone else on the ballot”. Meaning the Libertarian healthcare platform is abysmal and I believe they were on mostly all the national ballots so he had at least some competition for being the “worse”.
edit: a word
This is one of the many downsides of the current way of politics. Since apparently you can say anything without accountability, declaring a platform only creates a target. You’d be foolish to say more than you have to.