Comment by diogenescynic

Sutter Health is my local hospital monopoly. They're the only reason that Sacramento is the most expensive place in the country to have a baby. And the quality isn't exactly high. I know someone who just had knee replacement surgery and they were sent home a few hours after their surgery. When my grandpa had the same surgery in the 90s, they had him stay for a few days to recover. Now they just want to churn and burn their 'customers'. In addition, my wife after giving birth was only allowed to stay the bare minimum. It's shockingly gross how we've commoditized access to healthcare into this assembly line style racket. Contrast to Europe, when I hit my head on a train and needed stitched, I got a free ambulance to their ER where two nurses and a doctor immediately stitched me up for less than 40 EUR and was given world class care. We're doing something wrong in America when we pay the most extreme prices for the most basic care. We're getting gouged so executives can line their pockets. We should be rioting but we all just accept it. And it's not like Obamacare or Biden have done a single thing to change things. Obamacare just forced everyone to buy insurance... it didn't really change the fact that when you go to use it you get crappy care. And even when you go to a place like UCSF, the quality of care isn't that great. They put my wife's IUD in wrong and we ended up with a second kid. Healthcare in America is shit quality.