Blame the politicians they own

It's tough when doctors have been liars too, like those who are hired to push a certain narrative by corporations, or those who participated in unethical studies, or basically all doctors to women saying all our problems are emotional and in our heads while ignoring objective medical facts/symptoms.

When I see how differently men and women are treated in medicine, it's hard to trust doctors to be objective. They're just not.

I'm doing my best to be a good little Democrat and look down on those who don't trust doctors but geeze, experiencing a pregnancy and then giving birth in America makes it real hard to give doctors the benefit of the doubt.

The tobacco companies? Telling lies? Why I never!

What's next, Kellogg shouldn't be advertising sugar for breakfast for kids?

We will always have liars about literally everything you cannot blame the liars for being successful fix the system that let them defeat truth.

Just wait for what's coming. The ACA set us up for monetization of healthcare on steroids, and it's just about to hit critical mass. I think anyone engaged with the healthcare system today can see the enshitification accelerating.

For just a sampling of what's to come, there is a projected shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036. It seems like doctors aren't interested in joining the rest of us in working for slave wages to benefit Wall Street.

You can have insurance and still be expected to pay thousands of dollars of one out of network doctor sees you at your in network hospital.

Advertising of prescription medicine is illegal in my country so it's crazy visiting the US and those are like half of the ads

The patient doesn't really get a say. Only the shitty doctors giving into their patients demanding medications they don't need. Which isn't to say it doesn't happen, but it's not standard.

And that's just one example.

The most glaring generator of mistrust for decades now is the thing citizens discuss all the time but is never addressed: our out of control military budget.

We could solve every one of our country's financial issues multiple times over by reducing the military budget, and not even drastically so.

Our military was tasked with an audit to reign in waste and spending. They couldn't pass an audit so they were just given a free pass, no penalties or repercussions. The first audit was 2017 and they failed to pass. They failed two more since then. Senator Sanders intoruduced a bill in 2021 and again in 2023 which required an audit and was supposed to impose penalties for failure, it's been introduced so we'll see how that goes.

Conservatives correctly identify the location of anxiety, but not the source of the issue. So, a mismatch of anxiety over healthcare costs leading to mistrust of healthcare is, like, textbook conservatism.

Take the anxiety over one thing and use it to stoke fears related to that anxiety.

UK too. Some I've met who are old enough to remember life before the polio vaccine and still claim it isn't needed. It's purely stupidity.

US has a huge influence on the entire world. Could it be that it started (or got amplified) in the US due to poor healthcare and then spread out to the rest of the world? I'm not trying to put all the blame on US of course, but it doesn't sound that unreasonable that it could be partially responsible.

You can do that in the US too, but if they give it to you in a hospital the line item charge is much higher.

Places where it's sold over off the shelf in supermarkets it costs pennies.

It's also now harder to buy good vinegar in smaller supermarkets. They've replaced most of their options with cider vinegar, due to idiots falling for the drink cider vinegar for your health joke.