Millions are crippled by medical debt - welcome to healthcare in America

[redstatebluegirl]

26. I have a friend who is an MD.

She talks about the insurance companies driving this issue. They spend so much money to keep things the way they are. She also brings up the fact that fewer people want to become doctors because of the paperwork, denial of coverage, uninsured and the high debt they come out of school with.

My friend is now working at a clinic that serves a very poor population. She got her student loans paid off working at a large hospital in Chicago, now she is free to do what she wants to. She truly hates the medical machine she worked at for 15 years. She told me that she and most of the other doctors she worked with hated the administration and insurance companies. She said they got in the way of making people well and drove up costs.

This whole system is broken, the education funding that makes it so expensive to go to medical school as well as the crazy medical machine including administrators and the damn insurance companies.

Someone said it functions as a death panel, yes, I think it does. I told her one time that almost every American is one serious illness away from bankruptcy.