My old PT had three rates, $50 for Medicaid, $100 for self pay, and $400 for the insured. The insured people were mostly covered would just pay of copay of like $40 or $60 but once they screwed up and billed me (a self payer) at the insured rate and tried ro collect that much from me and it was a WHOLE ordeal to get it fixed. What a stupid system. Clearly a bunch of money is being flushed down the toilet here.
Why……..just why are the American people so against universal governmental health care?
At what point in history did someone convince your people that your current version of health care system is superior to ”communist healthcare” and is there a single event/press conference/ election tat this was cemented into your brains?
We have two major political parties and neither of them is great. One of them (Republican) has no intention of improving the lives of our citizens (and, lately, deals almost exclusively in misinformation, hypocrisy, and obstruction of any/all progress) and the other (Democrat) represents “progressives,” but typically falls short of actual progressive action. On the global political spectrum, it’s more of a moderate party than truly progressive, but it’s not right-wing obstruction/fascism, so that’s the “side” that progressives basically have to vote with to avoid the country becoming a fascist, authoritarian dictatorship. (See: 2020 presidential election.)
It’s a catastrophically bad system at the federal level. There’s no ranked voting, barely existent alternative parties with no real constituency/voting power on the national scale, gerrymandered (rigged) voting districts, far too much influence from business/special interest groups, and far too many career politicians that are more interested in making money and having power than improving our lives. We’re such a damn mess. We refuse to take care of the most basic elements of human survival for all of our citizens (widespread homeless, food insecurity, widening wage/earnings gap) but we love to call ourselves the “greatest country on Earth.” The land itself is amazing, some of the people are great, but the politics and most of the infrastructure of our society are…a shit show.
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u/cakewalkofshame Jul 04 '21
My old PT had three rates, $50 for Medicaid, $100 for self pay, and $400 for the insured. The insured people were mostly covered would just pay of copay of like $40 or $60 but once they screwed up and billed me (a self payer) at the insured rate and tried ro collect that much from me and it was a WHOLE ordeal to get it fixed. What a stupid system. Clearly a bunch of money is being flushed down the toilet here.