Americans are unhappy with the state of health care and insurance

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Summary

Polls show a majority blame insurance and pharmaceutical companies for high costs, denied claims, and access issues.

Only 44% rate U.S. health care quality as “good” or “excellent,” a 20-year low.

Support for government intervention is rising, with 62% favoring federal responsibility for universal health care.

Meanwhile, satisfaction with the Affordable Care Act has grown, with 54% approving.

Trump’s unclear health care overhaul plans are entering a polarized environment where Americans remain split on private versus government-run systems.

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Americans are unhappy with the state of health care and insurance

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We want universal healhcare. Those who "suffer" due to lack of income (due to the insurance industry collapse) after it rolls out can talk to a therapist for low to no cost.
- Some of you want that. Some of us do not want that.
  I want to eliminate company provided healthcare. There may be better programs for me, but if I try to look elsewhere I discover that my company pays more than $1000/month for my insurance and if I go elsewhere I lose that all. As such no other plans can compete with what I get. In turn that means my insurance reports to and cares about my company and not what I think.
  
  You don't want universal healthcare but you agree that tying health insurance to a private company is awful.
  So what's your hangup? You don't want your taxes to go up? If so, I can assure you it won't be $12000/year.
  
  I don't want a company for which I work being in the middle of me and healthcare either.
  
  So what would happen if you stopped working at this place for whatever reason, or the company itself ceased to exist? Just wondering how that situation would affect things.
  
  You're rolling 16tons... And what do you get.
  
  I want to eliminate company provided healthcare.
  That is what universal healthcare for.
no!? really!? wow!!
Wow ABC, good fucking job.
Brilliant report.
You really have your finger on the pulse or something...
- That's some ace reporting. I wonder what clued them in?
  
  One of the desk editors read about it on facepals.
But... but the main health insurance industry association, AHIP, says that 75% of Americans like their employer provided health insurance! Surely they can't be wrong!
/s
- I mean, I generally do like my employer health insurance, but it's also genuinely a really good plan that I've largely had zero issues or outright denials. (I do sometimes have to get my doctor's office and insurance to talk to one another appropriately, but that's just as much on the doctor).
  But I would gladly give up my health insurance for a nationalized healthcare system. Not even a question.
- A whole 1,000 people polled too!
Yeah, no shit.
this is with them hamstringing the aca during the last trump administration and with the mistake of allowing one company to own multiple sectors of the industry (hostpitals and insurance and pharmacy and manufacture and provider)
How could this be?!
You mean even after Congress slapped a [$35] band-aid on the problem...checks notes...16 years ago, and have only picked away at it since then, they still want more?
why wasn't this a headline two months ago? what has changed?
Damn, ABC News, look at you out here dropping such a huge scoop on everybody. You're a credit to modern journalism ABC News and totally not a bought-and-paid-for corportate psyops firm run by republiQans for shackling the poors.
Americans are unhappy with *
They should be unhappy with capitalism, as this shit is just a symptom.
All Capitalists (and their minions) Are Bastards.
In other news, water is wet! More at 11
Unhappy…understatement of the millennia
But nothing will change.
- Welcome to Russia - country with underfunded healthcare. Wait, was you talking about USSA - country without any healthcare?
Only 44% rate U.S. health care quality as “good” or “excellent,” a 20-year low.
It's quite high. In Russia it's 39%[1], 28% in lowest income bracket, 59% in highest income bracket and 41% in median-like bracket(sadly, it is not median). And USA citizen in Russia will receive more healthcare, than USA citizen in USA.
I think, just like Varlamov said about public transport and urban planning, the less people happy with healthcare - the better it will become. Or as it was in his example: in good cities residents say "LMAO, look how shitty my city is, here's photos", while in bad cities residents say "this is not shit on streets, this is fecal traditions". I think it applies to all goverment policies.

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