I think one big problem in America is that everyone is sick in addition to obese. High sugar diets, lack of exercise, a lot of people have diabetes. I knew many people in at the last place I worked at that were taking at 6 medication.
If everyone is healthy, it’s easier to have a (or any) system in place. A large healthy pool leads to lower premiums and etc…
I ran into a guy at my Muay Thai gym and I asked him what he did to lose his gut which according what he said spanned a large portion over his shorts. He said, “I stopped eating shit… and exercised more.”
I support not paying for shit I don’t really use
At least this much
That would probably help with the lawyer situation but I think non profits are really struggling right now.
Raz0r
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I would not mind that at all. I don’t think health care is something to be made a profit from, at least the insurance part. Sure, doctors, nurses, EMTs all need a paycheck but a big corporation shouldn’t be looking to make shareholders money at the expense of the health of people they’re covering.
i want whatever system will give people who support “out of pocket” the mental health coverage they desperately need.
It probably wouldn’t be so crazy if costs for care weren’t so inflated due to insurance exploitation and if half of our paycheck didn’t go to the government.
its not worth it to let people just die. no matter what there’s always going to be people who cant afford health insurance which is why its best to remove the for profit aspect of it
ny prices are insane. my brother and I were paying $1700(for both) through our company as tax write off. for the last 3 years I paid I must have went to the doctors once and even then the damn insurance didn’t cover eye drops and had to pay $100 cash for it.
right now we are paying $1055 for 2 people in FL. little better I guess but still pretty high for MANDATORY health insurance.
But don’t we have programs like Medicaid in place to prevent things like this from happening? I’ve never used the program myself but I thought it was essentially government insurance for the poor.
it is but they are very strict about who gets on it.
i was out of work for a while before Obamacare while trying to go to school and i wasn’t allowed on it, mostly because i wasnt a single mom and i had a car.
That’s really high even for NY. 1700 a month? I’m paying about 600 a month for me and my wife through my employer which is pretty good and my deductible right now is 2500. Still I think people, especially young people shouldn’t be paying so much for insurance. Cheap plans that cover serious illness with a high deductible should be the norm for younger people. It’s not like we have weekly doctor visits.
The government already takes at least 1/3 of my paycheck every week and then I have to take 600 at the end of the month to pay for health insurance when we barely go to the doctor. That’s half my rent.
My wifes old plan through her employer was almost 800 a month for just her.
you are paying for other people’s medicaid through your pay checks monthly/weekly.
I had it before when I was a bum. it covered everything including dental and was better than my current paid insurance lol…
I heard your mom could do anything from gunshot wounds to root canals. Why the fuck did you need medicaid?
not cash money. thats our own company’s tax write off. that was the best option I found. its kind of high when you are the employer and paying for employee(we are both). $800 for your wife through her employer sounds about right.
$1700 was for 2 people btw. including ADP’s “broker fee”.
Raz0r
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Expand medicaid. Might as well.
Why is the government double dipping? We are paying for “federal” medical insurance AND personal.
Fucc this I’m moving to Vietnam…herro I rike :china:
VASaga
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I live in Australia and our healthcare like our political system is a hybrid of British and American. The Liberals (our conservatives) tend to want to reduce the governments involvement in healthcare and leave it to providers or at least contract providers over centralisation (the party has factions). The Labor Party (our Democrats though more socialist) believe we should copy Scandinavia. It’s an ongoing argument and there won’t ever be an answer because as long as the rich are greedy and lobby to pay less taxes there will always be opposition to paying for something you’re not getting personal gain out of simply because you’re a citizen. Unfortunately some people don’t have a conscience or a sense of a social contract.
Raz0r
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In Australia tho can’t you throw a poisonous spider at them and have them die and then replace those politicians?
I get the joke but it’s actually very safe here. 90% of the population live in massive cities. Rural Australia is a different story but not a lot of people live out in the bush.
