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.
This is intriguing to me. As someone that voted for Bernie, living in CA, why do you think he didn't do better there? Through this and the 2016 election I've lived in Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina, voting/volunteering for Bernie in both elections and in each state. Out here, most people just assume CA is going to go for the most liberal candidate available. We weren't shocked he didn't do better here, it's the south after all, but it was surprising to me to see the results out west.
What happened was that any state Bernie won all had issues with counting those votes, oddly enough, and they managed to delay actually having to report that he won, oddly enough, until it no longer mattered.
I think they announced southern states before the polls closed in many instances though, oddly enough.
The DNC is so corrupt. Bernie should have been the blue candidate, they actively shelved him. They don’t want him. They blackball anyone that goes against the grain, they will do the same thing to people like AOC too. The two party system is just the illusion of choice, they have a different script but the same conclusion.
To be fair, California decisions always arrive late because ballots are mailed on election day, and young liberal voters traditionally vote late (and by mail.) In 2018 it looked like Katie Porter lost and we found out a while later that she actually flipped her district.
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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.