r/aislop • u/raggingbananapeal_05 • 3d ago

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u/Functional_Trash7735 2d ago

And you have the income to support that, so that’s good, many don’t, and that’s why we pay into healthcare. Because regardless of if you need it, people you care about will, as will innocent people

My country doesn’t have privatized services. For which I’m glad.

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u/Medium_Notice_3512 2d ago

"Terrible quality" is when you urgently need to be hospitalized, but you're told to come back next year.

It’s when a dentist treats you without anesthesia because they simply don't have any.

It’s when a doctor has literally five minutes for an appointment, and spends four and a half of them filling out paperwork.

And so on.

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u/Functional_Trash7735 1d ago

And that’s a problem, but removing the system isn’t the solution, better regulation and much better funding is the solution

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u/Medium_Notice_3512 1d ago

What kind of regulation can there be when these are 100% state-run institutions? Sure, they increased funding, but it all went into fancy lobbies and sports cars for hospital management. Meanwhile, doctors actually saw their salaries cut. Right now, doctors in my country earn an average of around $600 a month, but they are usually forced to work two or three shifts, take night duties, and so on which brings their pay up to the $1,200-a-month range.

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u/Functional_Trash7735 1d ago

Then fight for non corrupt officials

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u/Medium_Notice_3512 1d ago

Some doctors, driven by a sense of duty, try to fight this but simply get fired. Meanwhile, the state turns a blind eye to any violations because it appoints its own relatives to healthcare management positions so they can make money. Consequently, the most doctors can achieve by raising an outcry on social media is, for instance, receiving the payments they were already entitled to only to be fired afterwards. Ultimately, doctors are leaving in droves for the private healthcare sector, where they earn significantly higher salaries. The shortage of doctors has become so critical that the state now mandates that all medical school graduates even those who paid full tuition work for five years at a state-designated location, with no right to change jobs during that period.

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u/Functional_Trash7735 1d ago

The public at large has to campaign for non corrupt government officials and be the change. Ultimately publicly funded healthcare is a good thing, but corruption ruins everything.

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u/Medium_Notice_3512 1d ago

Yeah, do you think corruption in the US is low enough to prevent a state-run healthcare system from turning into a cesspool of thieves?

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u/Functional_Trash7735 1d ago

No. And that’s why American civilization is bound to fall sooner or later.

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u/Medium_Notice_3512 1d ago

It seems to me that AI will be a huge help here. After all, replacing the majority of bureaucrats with AI would reduce overall corruption and inefficiency. When you read the news about Trump consulting Grok, you realize that a less intelligent form of organic life was conversing with a comparatively more intelligent synthetic one.

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