"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
06/28/2019 at 14:46 • Filed to: None
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"Rainbow" (rainbeaux)
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She’s still ineligible for Medicaid because the Georgia GOP decided to strictly limit it in protest of Obamacare, because poor people apparently deserve to just die. It’s only available to pregnant women and people with young kids. On top of that, the hospital has no assistance programs or anything. So... yeah. I think her only options are crowdfunding and/or filing for bankruptcy at the ripe old age of 22... If that’s even a thing that she can do. I haven’t looked into it.
Not to get too political, but this is why we NEED universal, free healthcare. It makes my blood boil to see people try to debate that fact. This young woman tripped on her porch, scratched her leg, and got a potentially fatal infection. Just like that. And now she’s likely going to be five figures in debt. That is a life-changing amount. If you seriously think this system is fair, you're absolutely heartless.
facw
> Rainbow
06/28/2019 at 14:58 |
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Sorry to hear that. We need to do better.
arl
> Rainbow
06/28/2019 at 15:05 |
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What a mess. Sorry to hear about that.
Maxima Speed
> Rainbow
06/28/2019 at 15:19 |
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I won’t debate it because you already said you weren’t interested. All I’ll say is that, yes I agree with you the system is broken, unjust, and downright criminal; however Universal Healthcare is NOT the answer.
Svend
> Rainbow
06/28/2019 at 15:22 |
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Ye’, you’ve got republicans defunding medicaid because it’s nicknamed Obamacare or is tied to Obama.
Get over yourselves. It’s a good programme and if America put in even a fraction of what it put into the military it would be a massive force for good.
But no, you get idiots saying, ‘why should I pay for someone to get better’, well for one, that’s how insurance works you moron, and two, it’s for the good of everyone, yourself included.
People dis on the NHS here in the U.K. because yes it was better and has been allowed to be de-regulated and contracted out in areas. But even on it’s worst and darkest day is better than not having a health service at all.
And may see someone at the age of 22 go bankrupt because they fell over.
That is some serious crap I really can’t get my head around.
Universal healthcare is great, any other answer..............
Actually, you know what, I give up. Even on here there will be people saying, ‘it’s not the answer’, ‘well they should of got health insurance, I did’, etc....
I’m not going to reply to any messages from this post as it’ll end up with me banging my head off a brick wall (but I’ve universal health care, so).
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Rainbow
06/28/2019 at 15:23 |
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The irony is that in the long run because of lack of and availability of care this will probably cost the health care system more money in the long run than if there was readily available treatment and follow up.
HammerheadFistpunch
> Rainbow
06/28/2019 at 15:32 |
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next steps would be to reach up the chain in their medical group leadership, communications leaders and reach out on social media. Make enough noise and they will come to you.
MrSnrub
> Rainbow
06/28/2019 at 15:46 |
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Few things make me angrier than our healthcare system. American Exceptionalism ™ strikes again!
Klaus Schmoll
> Maxima Speed
06/28/2019 at 15:47 |
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As a European this sounds s trange to me. Why is universal healthcare not the answer?
VajazzleMcDildertits - read carefully, respond politely
> Klaus Schmoll
06/28/2019 at 16:00 |
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Well, he did state that he wasn’t going to debate it and this comment thread might not be the right place for it ... it might need its own oppo post or maybe diverge to a separate medium for further discussion. The points and counter points are quite complex and are hashed over in varying levels of accuracy, so really it needs its own topic space.
someassemblyrequired
> Maxima Speed
06/28/2019 at 16:04 |
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W
orks pretty awesome for those of us with spouses in the military, just saying. I had a top-flight
Blue Cross plan before we married, and government health care is less BS and smaller deductibles.
#$@$ insurance company
minions and hospital companies/administrators. And all their shareholders.
They can all enjoy some extended unemployment and financial hardship to atone for their sins.
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someassemblyrequired
> Klaus Schmoll
06/28/2019 at 16:05 |
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It is the answer. People in the US
don’t understand that supplemental private insurance is a thing in countries with public insurance.
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someassemblyrequired
> Rainbow
06/28/2019 at 16:08 |
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Would be interesting to know what the bill would be if an insurer paid it. I would find out and raise hell until they reduced it to what Blue Cross or similar would have paid.
Cé hé sin
> Klaus Schmoll
06/28/2019 at 16:11 |
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Because it's evil, foreign and (worst of all) socialist. Better to sink or swim. Money talks.
fintail
> Maxima Speed
06/28/2019 at 16:26 |
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Pretty hot take seeing as it works in every other developed nation, and via most health stats, also produces superior results to the insurance/middleman scheme which has lobbied its way into the American pocketbook. Oh, and all at a lower per capita cost, too.
But maybe they are all wrong, and the so-called right is right. Yeah, that must be it, I mean look at their track record for the average American worker.
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Klaus Schmoll
06/28/2019 at 16:29 |
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As a Canadian I’m curious as well?
Mercedes Streeter
> someassemblyrequired
06/28/2019 at 17:58 |
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Works pretty awesome for those of us with spouses in the military, just saying.
Ain’t that the truth. When I was covered under my dad’s insurance the going was absolutely awesome. We’re talking stupidly low deductibles, free doc visits...That little plastic card had some serious power behind it. Had my parents been smart they could have even gotten my mouth fixed when I was a teen...but of course they didn’t.
But now I have corporate insurance and now I’m actually experiencing what many insured (but not insured through the feds/military) go through. What in the actual heck...
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Mercedes Streeter
> someassemblyrequired
06/28/2019 at 18:00 |
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People in the US don’t understand things their politicians have spent decades lying about and vilifying in the chase of the almighty dollar.
Fixed it for you...sadly.
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Rainbow
06/28/2019 at 19:48 |
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A friend of mine works in the health care insurance industry. His advice is to wait for the bills to roll in, then ask to meet with the hospital/health care providers and negotiate the bill down to something affordable. Don’t let it go to collections, but don’t just pay the first bill either. Ask them what the bill would be at the best insurance negotiated rate. Then negotiate it down from there.
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someassemblyrequired
> Mercedes Streeter
06/28/2019 at 21:28 |
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Exactly. I don’t understand what people like about all the stress, paperwork and crazy bills. Wouldn’t you rather cut out all the middlemen, just go to the hospital, show your proof of citizenship/residency, and get the treatment you need? I don’t understand how that’s not better.
CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
> someassemblyrequired
06/28/2019 at 22:20 |
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*insurance company minion cry’s*
You mean just health insurance right? Because yeah
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someassemblyrequired
> CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever
06/28/2019 at 22:38 |
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Ha the ones that fix my car or house when it gets a boo boo are A-ok with me...
FSI
> Klaus Schmoll
06/29/2019 at 02:32 |
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Sorry...
AMGtech - now with more recalls!
> Klaus Schmoll
07/03/2019 at 08:14 |
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Probably member of GOP.