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Hey, but you can buy smartwatch monitoring your health for 1000 bucks... and there is abundance of "health" coaches and "healthy" diets. Doctors though? They wo
by durnygbur 4y ago
Hey, but you can buy smartwatch monitoring your health for 1000 bucks... and there is abundance of "health" coaches and "healthy" diets. Doctors though? They would rather never touch or even see you. Only Bill, Jeff, Zuck and your other palls can afford their attention.
- atoav 4y agoJudging the US discourse on that topic the issue is, that many of you would rather self medicate and risk their own health before paying a penny that might go to the health of someone else. If you are in a society where a part would rather have it worse themselves than support a stranger, you will not be able to have the nice things.
- durnygbur 4y agoSocial systems and insurances operate on best effort and "help most needy" first. Every time I'm paying full price, full monthly contributions, and every time I'm placed at the end of the queue...
- dan-robertson 4y agoPeople buy smartwatches and go on diets in rich non-American countries too. I don’t really know what your point is though? It’s possible to have a hard time seeing doctors in wealthy countries with socialised healthcare (eg the current situation with the nhs in the U.K.) and it is patently that you need to be one of the richest ~10 Americans to see a doctor. I think a great deal of the American readers of this site will have ‘good’ health plans to the extent that they could reasonably easily see a generalist doctor at short notice.