phil
@phil
I am exhausted after an excruciatingly frustrating week dealing with the US medical system. Basic tasks and appointments become anxiety riddled algebra problems, where the patient is asked to weigh costs and quality of treatment with intentionally imperfect information. How did we get here?
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Tom Beck
@tombeck.eth
It's a nightmare. As a healthy twenty-year-old I could comfortably live in denial because I didn't need healthcare. Insurance was just another tax. But now that I have a kid and am approaching middle age, I've caught glimpses of the Kafkaesque horrors that await.
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