Greed. Anything weird or shitty we do, it’s because of greed.
I tell anyone and everyone we will not get universal healthcare until this is prohibited. Certain votes feel having a job with benefits is something they have earned. They see it as some badge of honor or some.
Abolish it. Make it illegal.
Shit I’ve worked my way from homeless to well into 6 figures and have “amazing” healthcare. I still want universal healthcare because I’m not a fucking idiot. I want to have the option of leaving my employer and starting my own company without the massive cost of healthcare hanging over my head. I can’t understand anyone who thinks otherwise. Literally everyone would save money.
I’m still salty from working at a mediocre company and getting a $7k bill from a doctor for putting a scope into my nose for literally 15 seconds. And more recently, I went to a chiropractor (controversial I know but it helps me a lot) and got a $300 bill after being promised that it would only be $20.
I’m supposed to have great insurance too. I scratched my eye in my sleep bad enough I needed help. Went to the ER, they said come back in two hours or it would be really expensive. So I go back two hours later when the “urgent care” is open. I had to pay $500.00 for them to look in my eye and say yup its scratched, here’s a script for some drops. My insurance covered $40.00.
Canada’s public/private system has a lot of this as well. Drug, dental, optical, anything else are part of employer’s group benefits. There are public drug coverage options where your deductible is calculated as a percentage of your net income, and a public senior’s plan with a flat deductible.
Tell me again why soulless corporations should not be in control of essential services for humans?
Canada’s NDP wants to implement a federal public plan for these “extra” health services, recently made a deal with the Liberals to push a low-income dental benefit through, and they’re very open that it isn’t enough. Being in a union will likely negotiate you a better benefits package right now which is pretty lame considering how many people aren’t in unions.
The funny thing in the US is they don’t even get the benefit of the government negotiating prices with private health companies, their “medicare” is like a tax break but it basically just helps these companies keep their prices ridiculously high by softening the impact for patients. In the US system you’re not really a patient though, you’re a consumer of healthcare, like a customer.
just like everything in life healthcare require the labor of other humans and is not free by any means. Some one has to pay for it
Okay this angry message certainly isn’t directed at you and kinda wandered off topic but i started typing and it turned into a bit of a vent…
The problem is we’ve got bullshit ancillary companies wedged in the system wanting a cut. And even better, they get to overrule your doctor and deny you treatments if they think, from their fucking office chairs half way across the country, that what your doctor says you need is too expensive.
They’ll do anything they can to shaft both medical facilities and patients alike in order to maximize their profit while providing nothing of value. How much time are hospitals/clinics/private practices wasting on dealing with the back and forth between insurance companies?
Between me and my employer we’re easily giving 5 figures per year to these parasites. Make it a tax, pool it nationally to cover expensive procedures, cut out the worthless for-profit middlemen.
But oh no, it’s the only way, see in Canada you have to wait months to see a doctor while you bleed out on the sidewalk… right? 🙄
And yeah, we get rid of insurance companies and people working there lose their jobs. They’ve got the same struggles as the rest of us. That sucks, but it’s not a valid reason to keep this system around.
