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Last time I had a surgery, I wrote "by participating in this surgery, all participants confirm they are covered under bcbs, and agree to waiver payment if not" right below the surgery site.
The doctor got a kick out of it, says apparently I 'got' one of his aides, who saw it, said his coverage was lapsed, and ask if a patient could do that. The doctor said he made him stand in the corner for 30 mins while they did my shoulder repair.
Virtually all of our politicians love it.
Just imagine living in a first world country where they provide free Netflix instead of maintaining an insanely large military.
As an American, I'd rather die a preventable death then share free healthcare with someone I don't think deserves it! /s
How dare someone who is dying of cancer and is too sick to work anymore get free Netflix! They can work for it like everyone else! I'm not subsidizing their Netflix /s
This point is overdone, but Americans spend more than other developed countries on healthcare, so it's not even an austerity thing.
Americans are amazing. Their healthcare system is literally killing them and ruining their families, and they keep talking about how bad "socialism" is...
The amount of bullshit this people buy is incredible.
TBF a shitload of us know how socialized health care works. We want it.
There’s a massive, massive industry that is working very hard to make sure that it doesn’t happen.
10 years ago, we almost had medicare for all as a public healthcare option. We were soooo close. But congress fucked it up necause they were lobbied by ins companies who knew everyone with a brain would flock to the public option.
10 years ago, we almost had medicare for all as a public healthcare option.
The ACA was 15 years ago, and it wasn't even remotely close to Medicare for all. It was a halfassed Heritage Foundation policy that wouldn't cover everyone before just enough members of the Democratic caucus killed the public option, which was the intent from the very start.
And what the insurance companies got instead was literally a law forcing everyone to buy their shitty products. Imagine the tobacco companies being so successful at lobbying that they got a law passed requiring everybody to smoke.
Living amongst these people is a baffling and frustrating experience.
and the rest of the economy is heading in this direction soon. Rent seeking needs to be outlawed
Let’s start with outlawing lobbying. That’s how you get started on getting rid of “rent seeking”.
Universal healthcare is so hard that only 32 of the 33 highly developed countries in the world do it.
How about when the website explicitly says your subscription covers Stranger Things, but you watch Stranger Things, and they then bill you $80.
Then you follow the steps to dispute it on their website. And they say they didn't make any mistakes. Then you do the follow-up appeal via snail-mail and they say that there's still nothing wrong.
(My experience with UHC and a cholesterol test)
Took two appeals and 7 months but I finally got UHC to cover a test. The final successful action was a screenshot from the plan brochure that showed that they needed to cover it…
In Taiwan, I pay for Universal Healthcare because I own a business. 5800nt(185usd) every 2 months for a familyof 4. It would be 3000nt(100usd)for 2 months if it's just myself.
The copay is 10usd for everything. Fever? Food poisoning? Chemotherapy? All the same cost. This includes all the medications and all incidental costs.
If you worked for a Taiwan company, you don't have to pay the 5800nt. But the copay is the same.
So this sucks but you can avoid this with a simple trick. Call your insurance company first with the CPT codes for what you need done and where you plan to get it done. Your doctors office can give you the codes. They aren’t a trade secret or anything. Get diagnoses codes too if you can. Have the insurance company run the codes for you before you go. This does a couple things:
Ideally, we would have single payer insurance, but we instead have a government that pays itself to make private enterprise do its job, then the shareholders in that private enterprise make sure nothing ever gets changed. -sigh-
In the mean time, if you really want to fuck them over, consider switching to health insurance company that does not have shareholders. In many states, they are legally mandated to refund any profit they make over a certain percentage at the end of the year and without shareholders, it’s harder to hide the money, which puts much more pressure on them to spend it on patient care.
United Health Care want you to believe their way is the only way to do this. They are wrong. A shareholder-free insurer still isn’t perfect but the pressures are different without the parasites.
The fact you have to jump through these hoops at all IS FUCKING STUPID AND ISNT HOW IT SHOULD WORK.
It's not stupid, it's nefarious. Free Luigi!
It's much worse because you can choose not to watch Netflix but you don't have much choice if you are sick.
It's more like receiving a bill for songs you hear on the radio in the grocery store, on the bus, in other people's cars passing by. You didn't ask for the benefit, could not really negotiate it, but it was useful to you when you got it. You could maybe avoid it by not leaving your house.
So... Pirate?
/j
Yaaahr hold still on the kitchen table. I be removing your appendix with a steak knife
"You wouldn't download ~~a car~~ healthcare."
The fuck I wouldn't!
Fuck the American healthcare system and fuck Netflix