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Yea the US healthcare system is truly, truly awful, but that does not justify a turn to supplements, quackery, faith healers and witch doctors. The fact that pe
by ryandrake 1y ago
Yea the US healthcare system is truly, truly awful, but that does not justify a turn to supplements, quackery, faith healers and witch doctors. The fact that people are turning towards these things should be a wake up call to the medical system, but then again the medical system misses wake up calls over and over…
- Der_Einzige 1y agoBan insurance coverage for the quack bullshit like chiropractors, most forms of physical therapy , cupping, acupuncture, etc first. If you’re not willing to do that than don’t try to take a holier than thou attitude against the supplement crowd. At least fish oil actually does help a tiny bit. Certainly more effective than 99.99% of adjustments.
- colpabar 1y agoThe only thing they will "wake up" to is that they could be doing the same thing and probably make more money doing it.
- FeloniousHam 1y agoI like the US healthcare system? At least my on-the-ground, lived experience into middle age has been great. I've always had high-deductible insurance through my employer, never had a problem getting a specialist (even during the supposedly horrible HMO years) or special service, eg. MRI. With an HSA, I'm basically self-insured for everything short of something catastrophic. I don't know if I'm an outlier in this American Carnage, but with very few exceptions, this is the norm in my circles.
- ryandrake 1y agoJust looking at pricing, I am lucky enough to have a similar insurance setup, yet we are still vulnerable to unlucky pricing and uncertainty about what insurance will cover. The price you pay is an unknown power law distribution random number with an unbounded upper value.