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katia.antonova asked:


I need to write a paper on social injustices and I chose to do it on injustices in the health care system. I know of some,but I need specific examples…

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4 Responses to “What are some injustices in American health care?”

1. dumdum Says:
   April 4th, 2010 at 2:12 am

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   Here are some examples- The US has the best health care in the world for the wealthy, but the worst in the world for the poor.In fact, if you have no insurance or money, you cannot get in to see a doctor.And even if you have Medicaid, most doctors and clinics will not accept medicaid patients. Another example- a friend broke his leg, and I took him to the hospital.He had no money or insurance, so we went to the Charity Hospital (actually it’s called Huey P. Long Hospital in Louisiana. Their budget had been cut drastically. I believe the state wanted to improve some of the Golf courses with the money. We waited 13 hours and 30 minutes and did not see a doctor.I took him to another hospital that the LSU medical center used to train doctors that was over 4 hours away.He was finally seen 18 hours after the event.This is what the poor go through on a daily basis in my state, while the rich have 3 room suites at their disposal at all the local hospitals. The only cure for this is to nationalize the health care system so everyone will be treated the same. This is the shame and disgrace of our nation to have a system exist such as this.

2. WhatBrain? Says:
   April 5th, 2010 at 1:17 pm

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   Junk lawsuits are allowed

   while health care is excellent and readily available for all, it often requires a declaration of personal bankruptcy

   Veterans are forced to use a socialized system called the VA hospital system that duplicates what is already available, uses staff that hospitals wouldn’t touch, drive hours for care, has out-of-date facilities, and is and never will be fully funded (and is a duplicate of what Hillary wanted for all and similar to the obama plan)

   Due to easy lawsuits, doctors are forced to order a lot of unnecessary tests “just in case” to cover their ***** from lawsuits raising prices even more

   Current socialized medicine for the elderly and the poor only pays a fraction of the costs to hospitals so many will not accept Medicare

   Staff are burdened with tons of insurance and government red tape taking away presious time better spent with patients

   insurance denies too many people coverage too easily

   people demand insurance covers everything instead of just emergencies making it cost ineffective

   employers foot most of the bill

3. danielss429 Says:
   April 6th, 2010 at 12:56 pm

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   the new economy package just passed by our wonderful democratic majority, and President picking away at our rights to discuss and choose our health care plan with our doctor. Limits to health care and procedures have been limited to what Medicaid or Medicare finds to be a justified expense. This means my grandson who has a bleeding disorder of some type cannot have the blood work ran even on private pay unless we can prove to medicaid standards that the test needs to be ran, which at this time they say the circumcision and shots that have bled uncontrollably was deliberately caused, and until it is caused by an accident the test cannot be run. Fair, no, but hey this is the future of social health care in our country.

4. Bookgirl Says:
   April 6th, 2010 at 7:32 pm

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   I am Australian we have medicare which is paid for by ppl’s taxes. In my country if you don’t have a job you get health care free. The doctor, specialist care, surgery, its all free and a prescription costs $5.30. In America if you take your kid to the hospital and they see you do not have insurance they will not treat you and send you home with no assistance. Americans die everyday this way and its wrong. America needs to arrange a health care system that serves everyone no matter how much money they do or don’t make, most of your doctors do it for the pay and not the care. America is a thirld world country with regards to health care and its disgusting.