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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Fewer than half of Americans say they can afford healthcare. It's the lowest rate since Gallup began tracking it five years ago. abcnews.com/Health/fewer...

abcnews.com

Fewer than half of Americans say they can afford healthcare: Gallup

It's the lowest rate since Gallup began tracking it five years ago.

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Mexico just introduced universal healthcare............Feel the shame ?

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Healthcare Advocate @ravenn-24.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

UnitedHealth Group posted $6.2B in profits last quarter while simultaneously denying 32% of all prior authorization claims. Premium paid, claim denied. And they still keep your money. This is legal. This is American healthcare.

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Healthcare Advocate @ravenn-24.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Mexico’s president launched a Universal Health Service — and under its free public tier, walking out of a clinic costs nothing: no premiums, no copays, no deductibles. Meanwhile in the US, ~40% of adults carry medical debt and people still lose their homes to bills for care they’ve already received.

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Healthcare Advocate @ravenn-24.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Health insurance premiums on marketplaces are soaring, with costs set to increase an average of about 26% in 2026 after years of relatively modest growth, according to analysis by the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation, one of the most respected health policy research organizations in the U.S.

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Healthcare Advocate @ravenn-24.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Number of people who go bankrupt a year due to medical debt: Germany: 0 France: 0 UK: 0 Japan: 0 Norway: 0 Denmark: 0 Finland: 0 Sweden: 0 Italy: 0 Australia: 0 Canada: 0 Spain: 0 Portugal: 0 Iceland: 0 Netherlands: 0 United States: 530,000…

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@DUH4Healthcare @duh4healthcare.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Life Expectancy in Five Nations: 1960 - 2023 US Falling Further Behind Even in Pandemic's Wake 85 Life Expectancy at Birth 80 75 70 1960 Canada Germany France UK US 1980 2000 2020 Data source: OECD Data Explorer, downloaded 10-31-2025.

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@DUH4Healthcare @duh4healthcare.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

US Has Stark Gradient in Mortality by Wealth. mortality among richest Americans similar to poorest West Europeans Data: Machado S, Kyriopoulos I, Orav EJ, Papanicolas I. Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe. New England Journal of Medicine 2025;392(13):1310-9.

US Has Stark Gradient in Mortality by Wealth
Larger gradient than Western Europe;
mortality among richest Americans similar to poorest West Europeans
• US
• Western Europe
2.23

Estimates are for year 8 mortality. Data: Machado S, Kyriopoulos I, Orav EJ, Papanicolas I. Association between Wealth and Mortality in the United States and Europe. New England Journal of Medicine 2025;392(13):1310-9.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Americans increasingly recognize that there is no “healthcare system” in the US (VA excepted). There is a series of cobbled together webs of coverage, with lots of amazing facilities/clinicians, but with huge holes in coverage, exorbitant costs, and massive inefficiencies

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@DUH4Healthcare @duh4healthcare.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Life expectancy by rankings 1925 and 2025. US fell off the list in 2025

DUH Demand Universal Healthcare
Life Expectancy at Birth
1925
Australia
63.16
Netherlands 2
63.12
Sweden
3
62.55
Norway
4
62.51
Denmark 5
61.91
Switzerland 6
59.92
Canada 7
59.23
United States 8
-
58.50
United Kingdom 9
58.43
Iceland 10
58.29
Germany 11 -
Ireland 12 -U
Belgium 13
Luxembourg 14
57.42
57.34
57.09
54.79
) 54.33
France 15
Latvia 16
Finland 17
Austria 18
Estonia 19
Italy 20
Uruguay 21
Argentina 22
Lithuania 23
Czechoslovakia
24
Portugal
25
54.08
①：
53.39
52.78
52.72
D
51.27
=
50.99
50.60
• 50.50
49.57
48.39
Maddison, UN.
VG
2025
Japan
1
South Korea 2
Switzerland
3
Australia
4
Italy 5
Singapore
6
Spain
7
Malta 8
Norway 9
France 10
Sweden 11
U. Arab Emirates 12
Iceland 13
Canada 14
Israel 15
Ireland 16
Portugal 17
Qatar 18
Luxembourg 19
Netherlands 20
Belgium 21
New Zealand 22
Austria 23
Denmark 24
Finland 25
85.00
84.54
84.23
84.21
84.03
84.00
83.96
83.63
83.61
83.58
83.58
83.24
83.15
82.88
82.77
82.75
82.72
82.68
82.49
82.45
82.43
82.39
82.29
82.25
Đ
82.24

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@DUH4Healthcare @duh4healthcare.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

These are the numbers in 2012. Many estimates now are HIGHER!

50,000,000
Americans Have No Health Insurance
44,000/yг
Die Because of Lack of Insurance
600,000/yr
02012
Go Bankrupt Due to Medical Bills
Sources: Uninsured-U.S. Census Bureau Report 2010 (www.census.gov); Deaths-"Health Insurance and Mortality in US Adults* American Journal of Public Health, Dec 2009; Bankruptcies -"Medical Bankruptcy in the U.S. 2007,* American Journal of Medicine, Aug 2009
02012 Design by Witte Design, LLC • Tucson, Arizona • www.ConnectTheDotsUSA.com

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@DUH4Healthcare @duh4healthcare.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank... Medical Bankruptcies by Country 2025 LY 10% Bankruptcies Caused by Medical Expenses 20% |30/ 40% O I • 60% • 70% 4 Countries with the Most Medical Bankruptcies United States Canada $6.5% 19% 16: Australia 10% #K United Kingdom 8.2%

Medical Bankruptcies by Country 2025
LY
10%
Bankruptcies Caused by Medical Expenses
20%
|30/
40% O I
• 60%
• 70%
4 Countries with the Most Medical
Bankruptcies
United States
Canada
$6.5%
19%
16: Australia
10%
#K United Kingdom
8.2%

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Healthcare Advocate @ravenn-24.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Medical Debt: The Silent Bankruptcy Epidemic that people don’t want to think about.

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@DUH4Healthcare @duh4healthcare.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Four reasons to support universal health care: Number of people per year who have trouble 56 million paying medical bills Number of people per year who will be contacted by collections 35m agencies for unpaid medical bills Number of people per year who will use of all their savings or take out 26m

Four reasons to support universal health care:
United States
Number of people per year who have trouble
56 million
paying medical bills
Number of people per year who will be
contacted by collections
35 million
agencies for unpaid medical bills
Number of people per year who will use of all their savings or take out
26 million
new credit to pay medical bills
Number of people per year who will declare
1.7 million
bankruptcy due to inability to pay medical bills
Denmark
Zero
Zero
Zero
Zero

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Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) @pnhp.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

In America, people are choosing between chemo and rent. That’s not freedom. That’s cruelty. It’s time for a system that protects health and dignity. #MedicareForAll #PNHP

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

This should be breaking news every American hears about. A new study shows more than 1,000 Americans will die every year because Republicans cut Medicaid to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

nbcnews.com

Another report suggests Medicaid cuts could lead to thousands of deaths

The new report estimates that coverage losses could lead to delayed care, increased hospitalizations and more deaths. Its findings echo a study published in June.

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@DUH4Healthcare @duh4healthcare.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

www.change.org/p/deliver-un.... Sign the petition

America's healthcare
system is proof that we'll let people die before we'll let corporations lose money.
@blackvneck
Deliver Universal Healthcare, Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Necessary Medical
Sign Petition

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

There are 100k students in med school each year. Room and board is about 100k per year. For 10b a year, med school could be free. We would see a wholesale change in the profession, career paths and the cost of care. It would change the economics for every financial decision doctors

politico.com

Republican plans to cap student borrowing could shatter an everyday profession

One GOP senator said anyone paying more than $100K to go to med school is "making a huge mistake." But the median cost of attending one is more than double that for the class of 2025.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The VA is not perfect. But my patients never face this dilemma. It’s what all of us could have in a sane system. Deaths like his are what give us mortality curves like this 👇🏻

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Healthcare Advocate @ravenn-24.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The United States pay significantly more than any other country in healthcare expenditure per person. Do you think we are getting our money’s worth?

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Healthcare Advocate @ravenn-24.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The United States is the only major country to not guarantee healthcare as a basic human right for citizens. Every other major country figured this out years ago, at a much lower cost.

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Healthcare Advocate @ravenn-24.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Spending for healthcare is highly concentrated among a small proportion of patients with very high use. 1% of patients account for 1/5th of spending 5% of patients account for 1/2 of spending

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Healthcare Advocate @ravenn-24.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Most developed countries have some form of universal healthcare coverage. Why can’t the United States?

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