02-23-2023, 01:55 AM
(02-23-2023, 12:24 AM)guyofthetiger Wrote: I had a great job with great health insurance that they kept taking pieces away. Now, I'm on Medicare and get even better health insurance on the taxpayer dime. I think the solution to non employer health insurance is to join one of these health care funds often offered by the church. People pay into it and withdraw from it. The number of people active in it keeps it solveable. My sister has been in hers for a long time and all her hospital bills have been paid. Of course, she pays into it each month.
Except these church type plans are often insolvent especially if hit with a massive bill from someone’s cancer diagnosis. They are also unregulated. They are stopgap measures at best
Why, in the .United States America, do we have to resort to desperate measures to pay medical bills. The major insurance companies makes BILLIONS in profits. Just imagine if that money was actually put into the medical system to cover care for people instead of making stock holders rich. Pharmaceutical companies make BILLIONS in profits even after recouping development costs. HCA, the largest for profit hospital system, made over a billion. All this money in profit is coming out of our pockets and is pricing medical care out of reach of anyone but the upper class
It is Feb 22 and my medication costs for a chronic disease have already exceeded $20000. My out of pocket last year was almost $7000 and believe me when I say I am far from rich.
The ACA is not perfect but it is a safety net that didn’t exist before. Medical insurance keeps people in the workforce because people can get injuries and illnesses treated before they become disabling. Republicans want to “make America Great Again” well having affordable and accessible medical for everyone regardless of financial status is part of that. But they don’t even want to cap insulin, a drug that costs pennies to make, at $35.
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