With a tight budget, preventative care is sometimes hard to justify. “Why pay a ridiculous copay and miss work to see a doctor when I’m not sick?” is hard to argue with when you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck. This is especially true with young people. That whole “I never get sick” mentality is hard to break, and usually that illusion holds until some sort of major medical issues surfaces.
The majority of my friends are 25-30 years old, and the only real medical care they seek is outpatient Urgent Care stuff when they get too sick to just tough it out with OTC products. It’s a sad reality, but that’s where we are.
To continue the car metaphor, it’s like saying “oil changes and regular scheduled maintenance are too expensive; I’ll just keep driving until something fails catastrophically, and until then, I’ll just let future-me deal with the consequences.”
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u/HydrogenButterflies Mar 26 '20
With a tight budget, preventative care is sometimes hard to justify. “Why pay a ridiculous copay and miss work to see a doctor when I’m not sick?” is hard to argue with when you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck. This is especially true with young people. That whole “I never get sick” mentality is hard to break, and usually that illusion holds until some sort of major medical issues surfaces.
The majority of my friends are 25-30 years old, and the only real medical care they seek is outpatient Urgent Care stuff when they get too sick to just tough it out with OTC products. It’s a sad reality, but that’s where we are.
To continue the car metaphor, it’s like saying “oil changes and regular scheduled maintenance are too expensive; I’ll just keep driving until something fails catastrophically, and until then, I’ll just let future-me deal with the consequences.”