Work Reform

It is cheaper to keep people healthy through preventive care than it is to treat illness. From a taxpayer point of view, a single payer system would save us money.

But people are so propagandized in this country that they seriously think private insurance is the better option.

This is the exact set up for a Black Plague event. I know people tend to hold a grudge over the Covid Lockdown, but do we really need to see bodies topple on the street before realisation is made?

This makes every zombie movie way more realistic than it has any right to be.

All of the hospitals in my state were purchased by Atlantic Health.

My friend works for the hospital. The highlight of their quarterly meeting is how much profit the hospital now makes.

Why do hospitals need to make profit?!

Why are corporate owned hospitals even legal?!

I hate this timeline.

Yes. Pretty much all I can say living here for 55+ years. Yes.

Going to the doctor costs like $400-500

It's insane

And It's the corporation that runs the clinic that gets to see the benefits from that, not the doctors

Ah yes. Freedom. Don't y'all love it?

In fairness, 92% of us in UK aren't going to the doctor cos we can't get an appointment 😅

I stopped going, time and money

I just spent 5grand out of pocket because the doctor made me take a sleep test. They charged insurance nearly 20 grand.

They told me they found nothing and I was fine. I pointed out some flaws in their test but they weren’t interested in my opinion.

I cancelled my follow up appointment bc I can’t afford it, at least until this is paid off.

Also, I am not fine. I am very very tired.

Did you know if you meet your deductible they will won’t pay until you also meet the Out of Pocket Maximum? What’s the point of the deductible? I have no idea.

Me neither

I can afford to go to the doctor, I just can' afford that and the time off work to go.

Remember, billionaires are nothing without their enablers like your local news anchors lying to you, their protectors like your local PD, or your neighbors in the military who would take orders to kill you for standing up for yourself and your community. Billionaires are inaccessible, their protectors and enablers are not.

Smells like freedom. No wait, kinda like burning toast? I'd go to the doctor but it's too expensive.

70,000 Americans die every year due to lack of access to health care.

How quickly do you think an issue would be addressed if it killed 70 billionaires a year?

People pay a fortune in premiums, then another fortune in deductibles, before they can even use their insurance. Most families never actually get to that point unless they are "lucky" enough to have a family member who gets sick or injured badly enough to meet the deductible. Then you can finally use your insurance for the rest of the year.

We paid for years, and got literally nothing out of it, until I fell off a roof and got a bad concussion, and a big enough bill that our deductible was met. That was in September, so for the next few months we went to every doctor we needed, got every test we'd been putting off, etc. It was the only time we got full use of our insurance, so we took advantage of it, after paying in tens of thousands of dollars for years.

Medicare 4 All would give us full use of our insurance on January 1 every year, without having to worry about any deductibles. It might cost a couple of hundred extra dollars in taxes, but you'll save $600 month in health insurance premium, and $4500 per year in deductibles, so you'll come out far ahead, and have actual health insurance.

I don't have data, but as a pharmacy worker one thing that seems very apparent to me is people with non-european/white names getting way more insurance rejections.

Also, insulin and inhalers should not be so consistently headaches to deal with. Inhaler insurance issues make me want to rip my hair out.

A lot of times, you just get a big bill without them doing anything useful for you.

Not dissolved but it needs to be severely overhauled and they should be require to have actual medical knowledge.