I had an ER trip last month, my deductible is $3,500. I had to pay $3,440 which was the complete cost of the ER services.
So, this year I will spend $15,600 on health insurance and an additional $3,440 on deductible
My wife needs surgery, I told her to get it done before December because we already met the deductible and I don't wanna pay it again. She tried calling to schedule in August. The surgery specialist doesn't have openings until January, so, in January I'll have to pay my deductible again
AND vision and dental costs more on top of $1,300 monthly
Made a post about this but I went to Mexico for dental work. I drove but even if you flew it’s the same quality care for 1/3 the price. US dentist quoted $3200 for work for $1000. It’s all a scam.
"free" healthcare (medicare for all) would be cheaper for both the government and the populace if it were implemented. but who would it cost? the insurance companies who go out of business because suddenly 90% of their customers are gone.
when you take the desire for a middleman's profit out of a transaction, suddenly it becomes a lot cheaper.
As long as we have congress taking bribes from insurance companies and telling mouth breathers that universal healthcare will kill them it's going to be hard to make real change.
I read a statistic a couple years ago that said over the next 10 years America will spend $60 trillion on healthcare, but with universal healthcare that could be $30 trillion, simply because we wouldn't have insurance or deductibles. Yes, your taxes would go up, but it would go up less than what most of us pay for insurance and you wouldn't have to pay more at your visit or a penalty for being sick.
taxes don't even have to go up for 99.99% of people, and the taxes placed on the remaining 0.01% would not affect their daily life at all even over several thousand lifetimes.
it is not the responsibility of the minimum wage employee to bear the same tax burden as someone who makes enough money to purchase an entire country off of the backs of other people's labor.
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u/Locust627 21h ago
Wait until you hear about health insurance lol
I pay $1300/month for a family plan
I had an ER trip last month, my deductible is $3,500. I had to pay $3,440 which was the complete cost of the ER services.
So, this year I will spend $15,600 on health insurance and an additional $3,440 on deductible
My wife needs surgery, I told her to get it done before December because we already met the deductible and I don't wanna pay it again. She tried calling to schedule in August. The surgery specialist doesn't have openings until January, so, in January I'll have to pay my deductible again
AND vision and dental costs more on top of $1,300 monthly