Obamacare. It gets worse every year.
No $hit!
The people with the best & care are on Medicaid. All benefits no cost!
Free emergency room services for illegals and other poor.
Free health care for "dreamers" and migrants, including free "gender affirming" surgery for them.
People don't realize, the more "free" health care for one group, the more some other group has to pay for it.
They want socialized medicine and they don’t care how they get it.
We have created the worst of both worlds!
You get a “standard of care,” which is mostly defined by government: NIH, CDC, FDA, DEA.
But you get to pay premium for this flow charted junk health care since you have private for profit hospitals, insurance companies, big pharma, health care loan companies all maximizing their profits and gouging the customer.
***When you go to an American hospital you are signing a blank check!!!***
Even a used car dealer can’t play the games health care providers can in the US.
question all the lab tests...why?...
“Federal policymakers must fix it to ensure affordability,”
Every f up in the medical industry can be laid directly at the feet of bureaucrats and politicians “fixing” the healthcare industry. And where the hell are $2000 deductibles. The only garbage obamacare plans in my county have deductibles of $7000 with &14,000 “out of pocket” before they cover a penny of care.
Someone has to pay for the nv@ders free health care.
A revealing glimpse into the warped health perspective in this culture - "putting food on the table" is authoritatively juxtaposed with "caring for health". Reality: the food you put on your table is a huge part of how you care for your health.
Why don’t doctors compete on the open market, advertise prices, etc? Why don’t doctors tell you what tests, procedures, etc. cost before you agree to them?
“Federal policymakers must fix it to ensure affordability.”
Please, no more Federal fixes. Those idiots screw up every single thing they touch.
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Along with everything else.
NC insurance companies are proposing a 99.4% insurance increase for homeowners.
The ‘powers that be’ are purposely trying to price people out of owning homes.
Too many “people” riding the cart and too few doing the pulling.
I just paid a $300 deductible for a CT scan.
For sure ... I am living proof of that
The more free health we have, the more it costs everyone else. When Medicaid expands, someone has to make up the difference.
I had cardiac bypass surgery this summer, cost me about $6k out of pocket. Total cost of surgery and hospital stay about $700k.
The Democrats hope to destroy a once solid system and refuse to make improvements. They want it to blow up, they want socialized single payor.
I haven’t had insurance since Obamacare made my catastrophic plan illegal. It was $200 a month, for the 3 of us, 10,000 deductible and No Copay. $2 million cap per. So I have always paid for the basic stuff myself.
I have been going to same doctors office for almost 40 years now and I usually just pay an office visit of $125 for everything I need, sometimes a little more depending but always $500 or less. Last time I got stitches it was $500, but if I had insurance the office billed the insurance company $3500 to get their $500 in the end.
I managed to lower my income significantly last year and signed up for Obamacare at $122 per month with $7k deductible for each of us. It started a week ago. I will NOT USE IT for normal crap that happens and instead will do what I have always done, PAY CASH to my Doctor.
I recently got a blood clot in my knee, when all was said and done, it cost me $2500 with No Insurance, but my Hospital has different prices depending on who is paying the bill and they LIST IT on the Bill. If I had Insurance they would have billed around $12,000 to get that same $2500 and it would have cost me $7,000 to satisfy the deductible and because of my normal income, the premiums would have been $1100 a month.
If you do the Math under Obamacare it would have cost me 20,000 to get $2500 worth of medical care.
We have the best insurance plan that is available to us through my wife’s job. It’s pretty expensive. She works in an oncology clinic in the laboratory. That being said, our deductible is $3,000 and it just restarted on January 1st. I am a cancer survivor, but I still take immunotherapy meds, along with all of my other meds. I’ll hit the $3,000 deductible before January is over. We literally have to set aside money all year in anticipation of this. It sucks. Then I see these commercials adverstising 0bamacare where some guy says, “My gov’t insurance is only $30/month” but then you see in very fine print the two words, “with assistance.” Wish I could get some “assistance” with our insurance, but apparently we’re “priveledged.”