Remember: when someone says cutting Medicaid will save the government nearly a trillion dollars in a few years, that means nearly a trillion dollars of healthcare won’t make it to people who need it. It’s not like Medicaid recipients are going to go pay out of pocket. Now, those sick folks still get sick, and they eventually wind up in ERs, and every stupid, cruel turn of events along that pathway has costs to us all.
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@alisynthesis or just make them buy insurance on the exchanges.
@mcnado yes. with a normal budget
@mcnado (just noticed that you are an actual ER doc. Apologies if you hate the Pitt! I know that, as a musician, I almost always hate shows/movies having to do with music because they come off as ridiculous to me.)
@alisynthesis I don’t dislike The Pitt, I just can’t watch it because it is too real. Literally jumped off the couch and had to leave the room mid-episode. 2020-22 fucked me up a bit.
@mcnado @alisynthesis I sat next to a man in the ER waiting room who was told his toe infection was nec fash and they were going to amputate his leg. Everything was so backed up, “post-triage” was just another waiting room where people got treated sitting up. The way I explained it to people was, “have you seen The Pitt?” I had no idea things had gotten that universally bad at all ERs.
@megsouth @alisynthesis I have been admitting people to the hospital from my waiting room most shifts since August. I see them in a triage room, put them back in the waiting room, and call the hospitalist or surgeon. It’s unsafe, and a disaster.
@alisynthesis @megsouth I work at a supposedly fancy-adjacent hospital that is, in fact, making money. We are not inner city at all (rural, by Federal rules actually). This shit is my daily. Dartmouth benefits from the largely insured community as well as the support from research and elective surgeries, and a fairly stable population, with a hospital that grows when it needs to. Sadly not how most are situated or operate. Very nice place when I volunteered there 😜
@mcnado Somebody needs to roll a media cart into Congress and force them to binge seasons 1 and 2 of The Pitt.