From neonatal and primary care to emergency medicine, kids got lower-quality care than their white peers, researchers found. Disparities include longer waits and less pain medication after surgery.
From neonatal and primary care to emergency medicine, kids got lower-quality care than their white peers, researchers found. Disparities include longer waits and less pain medication after surgery.
Ha, that’s mighty big of you? 🤔. The necessary? into to your comment says “I read something you said and assume you’re a racist, but I’m not sure based on four short sentences.” I’m guessing you inferred the people I was talking about treating medical staff like shit were all non-whites “like me”?
It’s not that I don’t understand how easy it is to assume or infer things from internet conversations, but would you consider questions help more than statements?
Yes, I was genuinely asking.
It’s very hard to trust any “studies” anymore since with enough money, I feel like you could fund a study to say anything, and get other institutions to back it for the greater good/bad. Does that mean I don’t believe in discrimination or bias, no. That’s why I’d like to get first hand accounts also, knowing there’s less credibility of random lemmy users, it’s still something.
One of comments I read pointed out the study only included patients with insurance. If a significant contributor to quality of care has to do with income, I would want to believe that insurance would reduce that, since the organization is getting paid. I don’t know the back end details of different carriers and what they pay, and whether that would effect the actual care providers. I wouldn’t think a nurse gives a crap how much the patient’s insurance would or wouldn’t cover.
I’ve had pain meds withheld, and I’m the perfect white male that should get everything. I might have assumed care providers tend to think addiction issues with other people more than others.
My profession has come a long way. Someone with fucked up points of view on race joined my team a while ago. They got sorted out real fast. I saw and experienced that those ideas wouldn’t be tolerated at all. Instantly shutdown.
I suppose that’s not the case everywhere.
Everyone is required to have insurance in the US or they face a tax penalty. The ACA was so hamstrung by GOP pols that all it actually did was force Americans to buy insurance with low premiums but absurdly high deductibles, copays, and out-of-pocket costs. For many Americans, their health insurance exists only for catastrophic things, because being in debt for a $5000 deductible is a lot better than having $100,000 in medical debt, despite the fact they can’t afford the deductible either. Many can’t afford preventative healthcare that many of us take for granted, because for them the choice is the $50 copay for a checkup or buying food for their family. Healthcare outcomes for them are abysmally low.
This is frustrating. The person that cuts my hair is self employed. They don’t have insurance, so medical care other than emergency is basically just toughing it out or calling in favors from their medpro clients.
I’d think most of us are favor of catastrophic dept prevention due to medical emergency, so that was a good start. Still not offording regular visits or getting a prescription for something easily treated is frustrating in a first world nation economy.
As long as you stay super poor and make no effort to fix your situation, you can get Medicaid/care. So we have that going for us…