That’s not the problem with the healthcare in the US, because that eventually flips and you hit your deductible every year.
The problem is you lose healthcare if you need to quit your job and you pay more than any other country. And I attribute that simply to the middle man, aka the health insurance companies. They don’t seem to provide any benefit other than contributing at least 10% for pure profit reasons to the $3.4 trillion we spend every year on healthcare.
It’s definitely one of the many issues. In 12 years I’ve paid $86,400 so It’s hard for me to believe it will ever flip and begin benefiting.
Sounds like you have a “low premium” high deductible plan. I had one of those. Where I paid every dollar until I hit $3.5K and then 20% until hit $7k and then paid nothing. I can see where you could get to $86k. I’d start looking for a job that comes with a better health plan. I now pay $400 a month and $20 co-pay here and there.
That’s a symptom of our system. There’s so many different plans and options, and it’s further obfuscated behind your company doing all the negotiating that it’s not actually a free market. We would be better off going to a single payer system.
My biggest problem is some schmuck who I doubt has a medical degree, and has never seen me as a patient, but has absolute power over what a MEDICAL DOCTOR deems necessary.
At that point it really begins to sound like practicing medicine without a license to do so, let alone the knowledge required to get an MD.
Oh I’m sure they have a corrupt MD in their chain somewhere. I had a classmate in pharmacy school who was a lawyer and had no intention of being a regular pharmacist (retail or hospital). He just needed a PharmD to go with his JD to get a specific job in the insurance industry.
He told me it was to help keep them abreast of law changes but I’m sure they pressure him to provide a cheap yet legal solution. Probably have a JD/MD doing the same for medical procedures.
