I only go to the doctor once a year, and only because they hold my prescriptions hostage until I comply.

Its 250 dollars for 15 minutes of asking how I was doing and if I had any issues, before sending in my refills.

I have an ongoing issue thats causing me physical disability and probable permanent damage, my doctor told me to go to a specialist.

I called 10 specialists, 9 refused to accept an uninsured/self pay patient. the other one was willing to see an uninsured/self pay patient.. but only if I paid a 800 new patient fee, in addition to the regular office visit cost.

This is why I dont go to the doctor.

"Shocking"

Fuck you. Literally everyone in the US absolutely makes this decision for themselves and their families regularly. It isn't "shocking". It is the reality we're all dealing with.

What would be shocking is if anyone in charge gave a fuck about the people instead of their donors and moved to do something about it.

How is this shocking

"Shocking"

Shocking to nobody

Its too expensive and most of the time you don't get any help.

The last few times I have gone to a doctor, its basically been shrugged shoulders and a bunch of surprise bills for the next few months.

I had cancer 3 years ago. I will be paying off my treatment costs for the next 10 years, like I will be fully in remission for over 5 years from cancer and still paying off my treatment. So maybe that is why.

Guys, did you know if you put water on something, it becomes wet?

Among those 92% there have to be people who vote Republican. Is it really more important for them "to own the libs" than having affordable/universal healthcare?

I just (last year) got a fantastic new job with great pay and benefits. Which means I am only responsible for the first 5000. It's been 12 years since I have seen a doctor. I'm in one of the worst health care states in the union. Just lucky so far. This is the state of healthcare in the usa.

Yep, the insurance companies want us dead. They are trying to thin our those who are "weak" when it was thier fault that we are physically weak in the first place. They just want to kill people as far as I can tell. Helping is secondary.

The “92% of Americans aren’t going to the doctor because it’s too expensive” claim is misleading.

The 92% figure comes from a survey of just 1,507 U.S. adults conducted for financial-services company JG Wentworth. It reportedly found that 92% had delayed or abandoned some form of medical care because of cost. That is very different from saying that 92% of Americans don't go to the doctor, or that only 8% of Americans “attend to their health.”

There is much better independent data showing that cost really is a major problem, but the numbers are nowhere near 92%. KFF's 2025 national polling found that 36% of adults said they had skipped or postponed needed health care during the previous year because of cost. KFF also found that 37% of insured adults reported doing so, so having insurance clearly doesn't eliminate the problem.

Even better, an analysis using National Health Interview Survey data, rather than a private company's survey, found that about 17% of U.S. adults delayed or did not get health care because of cost in 2024.

So the underlying story is absolutely legitimate: healthcare costs are causing millions of Americans to delay or forgo care. But presenting a JG Wentworth survey's 92% figure as though it means “only 8% of Americans seek medical care” is a pretty substantial distortion of what the survey actually measured.

The more defensible takeaway is: American healthcare is expensive enough that a significant minority of Americans are delaying needed care because they cannot afford it. That's bad enough without turning the statistic into something it doesn't actually say.

Yeah, like I could afford a regular visit but I worked in healthcare and I've seen the bills people get hit with because things are coded wrong or denied by their insurance or whatever. I'm not rolling the dice on that unless something's really wrong with me.

I mean I'm working at a fortune 500 company and with my stupid high deductible plan even I don't want to go unless it's something that pretty urgent. I mean I already pay 10K+ a year for my family and then it's another 10K to meet the deductible and every doctor's appointment that's not the annual checkup is two to three hundred dollars and urgent care is even more expensive so yeah, it's basically unless there's something absolutely wrong, it's avoid the doctor and only go when things are basically unbearable even knowing I could afford to go.

US heathcare is a joke and unpopular opinion but the ACA, aka, Federal Romneycare, needs to be ripped out and actual universal healthcare needs to be enacted.

Just read the stories about how things were in Britain when the National Health Service was created.

One of the things which was pretty common before the NHS was created was this kind of thing - most people would only ever go to the doctor when they were already very sick for a while and their health just kept getting worse.

After the National Health Service was created overall healthcare costs actually went down because people were actually going to the doctor much earlier and less sick, plus under Universal Healthcare "Preventive Medicine" makes sense even just from an economic point of view because it reduces the costs of the whole system.

Who could have seen this happening?

financial services firm JG Wentworth.

I never considered that company a "financial services firm" - financial rip off firm is more like it.

Sad thing is, I can easily see this being true.

well yeah 64 and younger because you can get medicare at 65. of course that actually only pays 80%.

Yeah but we can’t change it because republicans love dying

It's not shocking when you have no universal health care and even if you do have insurance it doesn't cover crap. I just paid $200 for labs because "insurance" only covered half the cost. The entire system is a racket.

Doesn't sound all that shocking in a system that would rather you just die cheaply somewhere.

This is by design. The government wants this for us.

The shocking thing is the propaganda in the headline saying this is "shocking".

Where is the call for violent overthrow of the regime?

Well, Trump says if Republicans win Midterms, he has $5000 to give every American Adult.