I want to Boycott the Health Insurance Industry

The idea just came to me and I think the cost of health care in the USA is just plain crazy. I was dropped from the Obama tax credit program because I was not able to prove my income sufficiently due to the fact that I had had a divorce that year. So, I got a bill for $950 which is why I believe something crazy is going on. That $950 is for each month. I could choose to live and pay my bills or get some insurance but so far, I am healthy.

I have decided that even if the program would take me back, I shall not spend all that money for virtually nothing. I shall save the government of the USA $11,400 next year. You're welcome.

I pay $100 per week
w/ $5000 deductible per person/per year

wtf

and when I needed $80 prescription...….not covered

damn

I don't swear often
but the people in charge of the money flow will burn in hell

Thief said:

I pay $100 per week
w/ $5000 deductible per person/per year

wtf

and when I needed $80 prescription...….not covered

damn

I don't swear often
but the people in charge of the money flow will burn in hell

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Did you mean per week?

savagewind said:

Did you mean per week?

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$100 per week

This is what we get with our for-profit system that is considerably less efficient that Medicare. We pay the highest for health care in the world, and yet we still don't have universal care like each of the top 20 most industrialized countries, plus we have worse outcomes than they

If enough people will boycott them and we form our own national coop when someone actually needs something we will each contribute to that real need.

first we need to get the pharmaceuticals under control

We have to get greed under control. I was in a crisis situation last January so I called the crisis line and that worked very well but then the operator asked me if I might like a real visit and so mistakenly, I said yes, that might help even better. I just the other day got a bill for that useless visit. $425 and you might expect that a doctor came for that much. No! The woman came and took my information (hello! it would have worked as well over the phone) and I get a bill. At the time, I had INSURANCE! OMG!

I want to shame that company here, please. Sweetser.

savagewind said:

The idea just came to me and I think the cost of health care in the USA is just plain crazy. I was dropped from the Obama tax credit program because I was not able to prove my income sufficiently due to the fact that I had had a divorce that year. So, I got a bill for $950 which is why I believe something crazy is going on. That $950 is for each month. I could choose to live and pay my bills or get some insurance but so far, I am healthy.

I have decided that even if the program would take me back, I shall not spend all that money for virtually nothing. I shall save the government of the USA $11,400 next year. You're welcome.

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Yes, outrageous! Socialism is our only hope. We need to do away with for-profit medicine.

savagewind said:

The idea just came to me and I think the cost of health care in the USA is just plain crazy. I was dropped from the Obama tax credit program because I was not able to prove my income sufficiently due to the fact that I had had a divorce that year. So, I got a bill for $950 which is why I believe something crazy is going on. That $950 is for each month. I could choose to live and pay my bills or get some insurance but so far, I am healthy.

I have decided that even if the program would take me back, I shall not spend all that money for virtually nothing. I shall save the government of the USA $11,400 next year. You're welcome.

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Agree, being one of, if not the riches country in the world and not having a good public health system is insane I think. It truly is the land of the few and rich now

Its crazy that the US doesn't learn from those around them:

Canadians strongly support the health system's public rather than for-profit private basis, and a 2009 poll by Nanos Research found 86.2% of Canadians surveyed supported or strongly supported "public solutions to make our public health care stronger."[45][46] A Strategic Counsel survey found 91% of Canadians prefer their healthcare system instead of a U.S. style system.

And pretty much in all of Europe there is health care for everyone. That all Americans are not on the street with signs demanding health care for all, is a miracle to me

Nimos said:

Agree, being one of, if not the riches country in the world and not having a good public health system is insane I think. It truly is the land of the few and rich now

Its crazy that the US doesn't learn from those around them:

Canadians strongly support the health system's public rather than for-profit private basis, and a 2009 poll by Nanos Research found 86.2% of Canadians surveyed supported or strongly supported "public solutions to make our public health care stronger."[45][46] A Strategic Counsel survey found 91% of Canadians prefer their healthcare system instead of a U.S. style system.

And pretty much in all of Europe there is health care for everyone. That all Americans are not on the street with signs demanding health care for all, is a miracle to me

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I suppose we are too busy trying to get Trump impeached.

savagewind said:

The idea just came to me and I think the cost of health care in the USA is just plain crazy. I was dropped from the Obama tax credit program because I was not able to prove my income sufficiently due to the fact that I had had a divorce that year. So, I got a bill for $950 which is why I believe something crazy is going on. That $950 is for each month. I could choose to live and pay my bills or get some insurance but so far, I am healthy.

I have decided that even if the program would take me back, I shall not spend all that money for virtually nothing. I shall save the government of the USA $11,400 next year. You're welcome.

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The US is dead last when it comes to developed nations providing decent health care for everyone. The number of medical bankruptcies is terrible. This is one of the criteria on my mind when thinking about the election next year.

France is not perfect, but I'm so glad I Iive here. My health insurance is about 40€ a month and I have access to a pretty decent coverage.

Nimos said:

Agree, being one of, if not the riches country in the world and not having a good public health system is insane I think.

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Not only the richest but probably the richest in the history of the world.

savagewind said:

The idea just came to me and I think the cost of health care in the USA is just plain crazy. I was dropped from the Obama tax credit program because I was not able to prove my income sufficiently due to the fact that I had had a divorce that year. So, I got a bill for $950 which is why I believe something crazy is going on. That $950 is for each month. I could choose to live and pay my bills or get some insurance but so far, I am healthy.

I have decided that even if the program would take me back, I shall not spend all that money for virtually nothing. I shall save the government of the USA $11,400 next year. You're welcome.

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I pay about $60 every two weeks for health insurance. $3000 deductible. $30 office visit; $55 for urgent care. Prescriptions vary. But I only go when I'm really sick.

Stevicus said:

I pay about $60 every two weeks for health insurance. $3000 deductible. $30 office visit; $55 for urgent care. Prescriptions vary. But I only go when I'm really sick.

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That is not so bad but think about what it is costing the government. My tax credit was over nine hundred dollars a month but for what? Just some therapy is all I went for. No doctor, no hospital, no medicine...

I found this video that explain some of what you have to be careful about in the US system, which I guess might be interesting for some. Funny enough it quickly mentions Denmark as comparison (Where im from ) And looking at the US system with all the stuff you have to be aware of, which is most likely going to bankrupt you. I have to say, Im glad to live in a country where I can just go tell the doctor to fix me and not worry about any of that.

I really feel sorry for those Americans that get caught up in this system.

savagewind said:

That is not so bad but think about what it is costing the government. My tax credit was over nine hundred dollars a month but for what? Just some therapy is all I went for. No doctor, no hospital, no medicine...

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For a time, I went without insurance, as I figured that I'm so rarely sick, it would be cheaper to pay out of pocket the few times I actually I need to go than it would be to pay for insurance month after month. But now, I'm thinking it's better to have it, just in case.

Stevicus said:

For a time, I went without insurance, as I figured that I'm so rarely sick, it would be cheaper to pay out of pocket the few times I actually I need to go than it would be to pay for insurance month after month. But now, I'm thinking it's better to have it, just in case.

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Yes, it might be better but you might watch that video. With or without insurance, if you get a serious illness it will hurt either way. I keep telling people that I know who are not as rich as I am, "it is better to be poor in the USA or very, very rich than it is to be average here." I am average and I worry about getting any treatment that isn't absolutely necessary and how does a person know when it becomes that bad?* We don't!

I was very lucky fifteen years ago when I felt a lump on my breast. The care I received was excellent even though at that time we were poor enough to get it for free.** But, that is the major problem in the USA. A person who is less than average gets a free ride and a person who is dirty rich has enough money for anything and so all the weight of the system falls on the middle class and they must suffer the mental pain of uncertainty and worry about never needing care which worry just causes illness imo.

*And for the most part, I have observed that the care is nothing special (except for my experiences with critical needs like cancer and a broken ankle). For instance, a regular checkup never comes with an allover skin examine as it never happened to me and I ask everyone when the subject comes up and I have not heard that anyone has ever got it). In this country, we have to be our own clinicians.

**My sometimes very good experiences with the system have just added to my belief in God and in angels.