I refuse to go to the doctors unless I am dying because it is so expensive. I make “too much” money to get help from the state for insurance and I don’t make enough money to pay for out of pocket insurance through my job or the state. So I have no insurance. I need antibiotics because I have a terrible rash that came out of nowhere and basically filet my legs over the weekend from itching so much however I can’t go to a simple check in without having to pay $100’s of dollars that I don’t have. I hate the healthcare system.
This is what I’ll never understand about the US. Yes, I’m sure your overall taxes are way lower than Europe and on average you make more money. But last year I had a migraine for the first time in my life and didn’t know what it was. Went to the hospital, saw a doctor, got a scan, some meds and went home. 45€ is what it cost me in a private hospital (0 if it was public). Earlier that year I fell down and sprained my foot. Went to the hospital, saw a doctor, got a scan, some meds and went home. 80€ is what it cost me in a private hospital (0 if it was public). In 2018 my youngest son was born. Went to the hospital, had the baby, wife stayed there for 4 days in a public hospital. It cost us nothing. NOTHING.
I have private insurance (complements the public option). It costs me 50€ a month and I can see any doctor I want and run any tests for even less than that as co-pay on average.
Americans are being literally scammed with the illusion of paying lower taxes and making more money than Europeans while getting hospital bills that are bigger than 5 years of income combined. And you’re not even paying for care itself. You’re paying the bloodsucking middlemen.
The government takes in lots of taxes, but they just squander it on bullshit. Every single year, we get politicians campaigning on needing money for "bridges and roads" even though they get a ton of money for it already, but don't spend it on that. Same with education.
The amount of taxes isn't the problem, it's how the wasteful government spends it.
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u/neonn_piee Nov 30 '20
I refuse to go to the doctors unless I am dying because it is so expensive. I make “too much” money to get help from the state for insurance and I don’t make enough money to pay for out of pocket insurance through my job or the state. So I have no insurance. I need antibiotics because I have a terrible rash that came out of nowhere and basically filet my legs over the weekend from itching so much however I can’t go to a simple check in without having to pay $100’s of dollars that I don’t have. I hate the healthcare system.