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Bristlecone@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I’m in the medical field, and the number of people who absolutely despise private insurance, but despise public Health systems even more, for no reason, is too damn high.

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myrrh@ttrpg.network ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
…i always ask providers up-front what is my cost without using any insurance versus my out-of-pocket cost after insurance, and most of the time it’s substantially cheaper not to use insurance even though it doesn’t count toward my deductible…

…those middlemen are a huge burden on the health care system, and they persist only because their costs are hidden from patients…

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- chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s awful. And until you hit maximum out of pocket, the insurance company may not be paying anyway.
  
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zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
They sound like my family. God forbid there be “socialized” healthcare that the “leeches” can benefit from, but also insurance sucks and doesn’t pay for anything and whoops now we have medical debt.

They don’t want their tax dollars to subsidize the care of anyone they think is less deserving than them, while they begrudgingly accept having to pay hundreds of dollars each month on an insurance plan that won’t even cover the care they need.

And they want to see every change introduced by Obamacare undone, so, have fun going back to insurance plans that can deny you coverage just because you have a preexisting condition that they don’t want to pay for.

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- Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Fun fact! The US is spending more on healthcare than it does on its military. By A LOT. The military gets around 4% of the federal budget, healthcare gets around 12%.
  
  Where does that money go, you ask? Why, to the pockets of the corpos owning private healthcare, of course!
  
  The US taxpayer pays MORE on healthcare in taxes than the the taxpayers in Switzerland or Norway!
  
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  - zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yep. Republicans like my family are still so focused on the idea of “welfare queens” and illegal immigrants who are sucking up their hard-earned taxpayer dollars, while completely blind to the fact that they are spending thousands enriching corporate middlemen who provide little to nothing in return. So who are the real leeches?
    
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    rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    “They have us fighting a culture war so we don’t fight a class war.”
    
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