• LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Healthcare is the only service ive ever heard of where nobody ever seems to know how much shit is going to cost and so you go in to have a doctor kiss a booboo and then 4 months later get a bill for 10,000 dollars

    Gosh, I fucking wonder why I can’t even work up the mental fortitude to call a doctor to schedule a fucking appointment over all my fucking issues

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    Where is he even getting that $4000 figure from? I’m a single 30 year old guy and it was gonna be $400 a month for health insurance on the market since I don’t get it through my job. So if a single guy in the prime of his life in a low risk area is paying $4800 a year for insurance alone, I imagine a family of 4 that gets health insurance through work has to be spending at least $10,000 a year on premiums alone.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.net
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      US healthcare spending is over $15,000 per person (5.5 T / 30.5 T which is about 1/6 of GDP, though the income is distributed a lot less equitably than the health expenses).

      This is something you can just look up in one minute.

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      The really crazy thing is that it is basically free if you are dirt poor (like 3000 dollars out of pocket on the market, which is still extremely high, but like basically free when you are Medicaid, other than the fact you literally have no fucking money) they are just subsidized, it’s only as soon as you start making any kind of decent money it goes right into the health insurance industry’s pocket. The personal incentive is literally to work less and make less money if you are outside the corporate structure.

      Like, how is it possible that we can subsidize the under employed, but not those making just abit more money? What kind of backwards ass system is that? Not that I am advocating for punishing poor people, it’s just why can I not have the same level of benefits when I was on Medicaid as when I am working? Medicaid was fucking great, not perfect by any means, but so much better than any private insurance I have ever had.