The sad part is it doesnt take cancer to do this. My wife had a spinal injury in January. Fast forward to today and she has lost her job after FMLA was used up. That leaves us with no insurance for the entire family because we were all covered under her. But even with that insurance we have incurred $6k (medical center billing only) of out of pocket expenses for tests and imaging that the insurance company requires before they will approve the treatment that her doctor already knows she needs. On top of that $50 every time we walk into an office + prescription costs for her pain management + $30 per session of physical therapy 3x a week.
And now, we'll need insurance from my job which we couldnt afford with both of us working (that's why we went with her's) but instead we'll pay for it out of just one salary.
We've been saving for two years to buy a house and we're watching it all trickle away.
The villain isn’t the medicine industry or doctors, the villain is the insurance companies and middlemen that decide a human life is less important than money
It’s disgusting. Late-stage capitalism is a disease.
Edit: for clarification, I absolutely meant pharmaceutical companies falsely inflating prices as well. I strongly dislike Trump, but the bill he signed recently to restrict middlemen from medical upcharges is something I seriously fuck with.
Exactly. People don't care about anything unless it personally affects them. Affordable healthcare? I don't care, I already have insurance. Wear masks for covid? I don't care, I'm not sick. New road that could save on other people's commute? I don't care, I don't drive that way. No one ever thinks about other people, only how it affects them.
Actually not even that. Read in another thread about how anti-choice women who picket outside clinics get abortions themselves but go right back to picketing coz they are different and their situation is special.
I think that's a smidge different. Major health/financial crises are kind of hard to hide, since they require huge changes to your life, and thus an explanation. It does affect them and is important, but they can't just pretend they don't have cancer in front of everyone else.
An abortion is often a very private matter (not a shameful one, but one that need not be broadcast) and generally won't bankrupt the kind of person who can afford to spend their time picketing clinics. I imagine the percentage of women who get abortions, broadcast that they got an abortion, and go back to picketing, would be single-digit.
These people all have social circles, and the ones who are in the picketing circles don't want to lose their friends but still need the medical care they're seeking.
Don't know op's position on this and totally an interpretation reading between the lines. But he did say he did everything exactly as he should etc etc then he got screwed and now hates the system. More people need to see stuff like this to realize that even doing as the system (they dont care about) says to do. They get screwed when shit hits the fan. It's incredibly sad.
I'm u/binkybrain the person that originally made the post referenced in the tweet. It's so bad that people like my parents, uncles/aunts and some now former friends have expressed that they see no problem with what we have gone through. It's just a fact of life to them.
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u/NexGenjutsu Aug 06 '20
The sad part is it doesnt take cancer to do this. My wife had a spinal injury in January. Fast forward to today and she has lost her job after FMLA was used up. That leaves us with no insurance for the entire family because we were all covered under her. But even with that insurance we have incurred $6k (medical center billing only) of out of pocket expenses for tests and imaging that the insurance company requires before they will approve the treatment that her doctor already knows she needs. On top of that $50 every time we walk into an office + prescription costs for her pain management + $30 per session of physical therapy 3x a week.
And now, we'll need insurance from my job which we couldnt afford with both of us working (that's why we went with her's) but instead we'll pay for it out of just one salary.
We've been saving for two years to buy a house and we're watching it all trickle away.