LeeOblivious t1_je6ag5e wrote on March 29, 2023 at 6:42 PM

I'm sad this is occurring at all. I wish we had a first world health system like the other industrialized nations. But sadly we do not.

Anima_EB OP t1_je6be8q wrote on March 29, 2023 at 6:48 PM

1000% agree. Too much money to be made from lobbyists clearly.

LeeOblivious t1_je6c56c wrote on March 29, 2023 at 6:52 PM

All the extra middle men wanting their cut of the pie.

LtColDuBois t1_je6zeum wrote on March 29, 2023 at 9:22 PM

Try getting care in Germany. Pretty bad experience in Stuttgart, a place with a large US military population. Big part of the reason we came back to SGF. These stories aside, my experience at Mercy and the VA clinic in SGF has been a relative joy vs. Germany. And their system is not single payer, either. Lots of cash for services, much more than here, as well as private insurance and hospital horror stories.

LeeOblivious t1_je71c7g wrote on March 29, 2023 at 9:36 PM

Not my experience at all when using non-mil health systems in the EU (or Japan). Maybe they just like Navy guy's better?

LtColDuBois t1_jedbv8v wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:37 AM

I was a civilian (retiree, GS).