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thank you. we need more REAL LIFE stories like this to illustrate the failing system instead of all these facts and figures that prove this or that. People are DYING or going into bankruptcy and then dying. What sort of quality of life does this lead to in this country?
posted 3 years, 9 months ago
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Thank you Cheryl! This is what people in the UK think when they hear our absurd debates over this issue.
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People always say "oh you can just go to the ER" "the hospital MUST treat you, they cannot turn you away". Yes and they will send you a $600 bill for a 2 mile ambulance ride, $50 tylenol bill etc. Even people with insurance working 40 + often have shitty policies. Friends who make under $30,000 and work full time end up with $2000 surgery bills they didn't know they were going to have. This is with insurance. On $30K that is $2K out of $2.5K a month. The hospital offered my friend a two month payment plan. After that it goes to collections. Real Life.
And what constitutes a "bad life choice"? Deciding to negate creativityand creative lifestyles because you are worried about not having healthcare? For some this is not an option. It would result in mental illness.
Besides, that is not an issue in EU and UK. Believe me, artists are PAID by the state to create because they consider such pursuits an important aspect of culture.
AND, I would much rather skip dining out if I knew I would get a year paid leave from work in order to insure my child's health and well- being. Women in the US get 3 months TOPS if they work for a good company.
Perhaps we need to reconsider our values
posted 3 years, 9 months ago
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Or find out you have a condition then find out that they don't cover it even if you are a "productive" citizen. What's productive mean? Daddy left you 300,000 in a trust fund? Paid for your life? People are blind to such realities when they gethe privileges of the wealthy. Welcome to the USA.
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No, TJ, a responsible and just government could possibly tell the big corporations to shove it and relocate a teeny bit of the money from slaughtering people in the middle east/afghanistan to health care.
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Then why, in other countries where all health costs are covered by the public system, are surgeries costing 1/10th of what people and insurance companies are being charged here? It is a FOR PROFIT system. It is inherent that there will be exploitation. Also, I am a person of low income who does not qualify for for medicaid although I have a serious health condition that requires surgery. In Oregon people like me are expected to participate in a "lottery" for healthcare in which people who are neither disabled, pregnant etc. are chosen from a vast pool of applicants. Once the person has "won" the lottery, the income level cut- off is around $920 a month. Once that number is exceeded but even a few dollars, the "winner" is disqualified. I have had friends whoare uninsured due to unethical labor practices such as being hired "part-time" at 36 hours a week play this in order to have biopsies for an irregular pap, to check for cervical cancer. These are people in their thirties. Once being selected for the lottery, they must either cut their hours or quit jobs to remain eligible for the health care. Is this some kind of joke?!?!? Oh and p.s. to all who are concerned they may have to wait a week to see a doctor-if you have a shitty insurance policy through your employer in which you pay out evry month and have deductibles, you often have to wait 4-6 weeks to get an appointment and are only allowed 1 dental or eye exam per year. These are the realities that people who are not makingover $30K a year face. Poverty level for a sigle person is $12K.
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The idea that the health care system is working in the US is a joke. The world looks at us as Neanderthals when it comes to this issue. I am tired of people with access to insurance ignoring the fact that there are millions of people GOING WITHOUT any sort of healthcare. I am without health care and have been for years now. If you are a part time worker you don't get healthcare. Most companies are adopting the tactic of giving workers hours just under the qualifying amount to get the healthcare benefits. My partner has healthcare that he has to PAY for each month and he has to wait to get an appointment. HERE. Not in the UK or some other "socialist" country. The big corporations are MAKING MONEY from healthcare. That in itself is a joke. I have a serious health condition that I am IGNORING and have been for years bcause I can't go to the doctor. Many people I know have been without healthcare for 10-15 years. I have looked into purchasing a policy myself, but haven't found it affodable. Plus, since I have a "pre- existing" condition I would have to lie to even be able to be eligible. So basically I am just waiting to go tot the ER when the condition gets to be too bad and then end up with a bunch of debt to pay. Wake up people.
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