Shocking  

A shocking 92 percent of US adults are not going to the doctor because it’s too expensive
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/shocking-92-percent-us-adults-17012562...

 Really?   A survey of 1,507 U.S.adults by financial services firm JG Wentworth.

 Sample size is way too small to make that level of percentage determination.  Of course if your Observed Reality aligns with this extremely small pool of data, then it must be true.  Because data that matches Observed Reality is correct.

It's a legit sample size. More would be better, but that's why it's called a "sample".  

 They didn't call it a "sample" they called it  "92% of US adults".  The sample represents 0.000560223048% of US adults over age 18.

 When a sample size of 1,507 US adults show that 90% of "US adults" support Trump policy would that be a "legit sample size" to claim the US populace supports Trump policy?  This can easily be achieved by surveying in Dallas TX.  

 I would say a "sample size" that small clearly cannot represent "92% of US adults".    It would represent a small portion of Dallas, just like the JG Wentworth survey represents a small portion of their clients.  Or "92% of people surveyed".  

 The article is intentionally misleading.  AND ALSO people can avoid going to the doctor.  


So, you're saying that people are NOT avoiding doctor visits?

 No.  I said nothing even close to that.  I said the words typed here.  

 

A perfect example of the, DFI, FDS, WOKE SOCIALISTS saying what they are .........

"... TOLD TO SAY ..."


 Just like all those CDC death certificates that "SAID" to put dying from a car crash as dying from covid.  Just repeating what they are TOLD and ignoring that not one actual piece of evidence exists.

Forget the source or the numbers, it's a fact that Americans have to worry about cost that most other civilized countries don't

 Then why provide sources or numbers?

 What exactly is the benefit of providing sources and data just to say "ignore the sources and data" and accept X-as a fact?

   Election deniers toss out numbers and then promptly say to ignore them.  What is the value in their data over just complaining about something they do not like?

 It should be obvious people in the US will reduce interaction with medical providers based off cost since people in the US avoid pretty much anything that is considered to be too high of a cost.  Medical care is outrageously expensive in the US, people will avoid that if they can.

Because you're using it to ignore the point

 Incorrect.  I clearly acknowledge that humans in the US have excessive medical cost and avoid medical care due to this.

 I just don't need to be fed nonsensical math to acknowledge it.  Your article can be misleading AND ALSO people can have excessive medical care in the US.

 I can acknowledge poor source material AND ALSO agree with the general premise of the misleading statement.

I can give you an example. My son's childhood best friend is now 38, has a wife and two children. He's a pipefitter. He makes a good salary. Two years ago he had a brain tumor removed. It cost him just over $8000. It recently came back. He was told another surgery and follow-up care would be roughly $65,000 out of pocket a year for 2 years. That was all the time the surgery would likely buy him. The amount is because his insurance will cover hospitalization and supportive care, but will not pay anything on the actual treatment! The company he works for is self-insured, like most US corporations, so, basically, his bosses are refusing to pay to help an employee that has made them money for over 15 years

US has the world's best healthcare? I don't think so.

US has the world's best healthcare? I don't think so.

 People mix healthcare outcomes with healthcare a lot.  The US has rather good procedural outcomes, but the general ability to provide good care is poor.

 I know a 25 year old that went bankrupt over a hemorrhoid and at 35 he was barely recovering from the financial burden of a simple procedure.  There is zero reason for an outpatient procedure to cripple someone financially for a decade.