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COVIDCare4All 2020!?
seriously, all this COVID-19 drama should be a huge wake-up call for everything wrong with this country right now.
Healthcare reform is a must, argument for UBI, digital revolution for telecommuting, teleconferencing, and so many other digital services we could have if the telecom companies would be forced to actually upgrade the entire network and stop gouging us for tax money in exchange for at best average speeds on substandard technology.
seriously, all this COVID-19 drama should be a huge wake-up call for everything wrong with this country right now.
Healthcare reform is a must, argument for UBI, digital revolution for telecommuting, teleconferencing, and so many other digital services we could have if the telecom companies would be forced to actually upgrade the entire network and stop gouging us for tax money in exchange for at best average speeds on substandard technology.
One thing to watch America spiral down a drain dug by insurances and healthcare systems but it's depressing to watch the UK try to slavishly copy that system.
I broke my toes at the weekend (again!) and decided it wasn't worth navigating the system during a health crisis- and I have "Cadillac " health insurance.
I reset the displaced little toe (soft notes of fruity anguished agony and heady, bright overtones of rosehip and crying) and keeping an eye on the rest of the foot to make sure it heals normally. I'll go in if anything goes wrong-er. I think the second to little toe is probably fractured and there might be a crack on the foot beyond.
but the fact that someone with great insurance is just too tired and annoyed to deal with it is also a red flag.
if I went to the ER I might wait all day in a chaotic environment full of panicking parents, ODs, gunshot victims and chaos, if I went to my doc I'd be waiting for secondary imaging at another facility and X-ray tech and mri billing. Might be another week before I get the information and meanwhile my foot is mostly healed.
I broke my toes at the weekend (again!) and decided it wasn't worth navigating the system during a health crisis- and I have "Cadillac " health insurance.
I reset the displaced little toe (soft notes of fruity anguished agony and heady, bright overtones of rosehip and crying) and keeping an eye on the rest of the foot to make sure it heals normally. I'll go in if anything goes wrong-er. I think the second to little toe is probably fractured and there might be a crack on the foot beyond.
but the fact that someone with great insurance is just too tired and annoyed to deal with it is also a red flag.
if I went to the ER I might wait all day in a chaotic environment full of panicking parents, ODs, gunshot victims and chaos, if I went to my doc I'd be waiting for secondary imaging at another facility and X-ray tech and mri billing. Might be another week before I get the information and meanwhile my foot is mostly healed.
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our current system is just cruel and inhumane. I hope more people see this the longer the crisis continues.
Not strictly a Republican thing. Just overwhelmingly a Republican thing.
Also, I voted for Bernie, but Biden has made it clear he will expand the ACA at minimum. The GOP spent all of 2017 trying to kill that very program.
The real kicker is that if she had insurance, they would "negotiate" this bill down to $2000-$3000, which is what her treatment actually cost. I don't understand the logic in giving uninsured individuals these 1000% markup fake bills, I have to imagine 99% of them are never paid.
Treatment should be free. This is a fucking vital outbreak, but that shouldn't even be the real reason for treatment to be free.
Health insurance companies need to be burned to the ground. They're parasitic. I'm going to feel sick to my stomach if I have to vote for any Democrat who promises no fundamental changes to a fundamentally broken healthcare system.
The main reason is because hospitals produce a single bill no matter who's paying. It makes sense for hospitals because billing is complicated.
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My wife was in the ER for a couple of hours a few years back, and the bill was $5000. My insurance company negotiated it down to $3500. Guess what my deductible is? Yep, $3500. It's all a racket, and I just threw the bill in the trash. Already have a house, cars...won't need good credit anytime soon. Fuck them.
That's awful. While here I am being notified the other day that any Covid 19 treatment, including hospital stays, will be at no cost on our insurance. Wish everyone could have that in this country.
We received a bill for $42k with insurance for an overnight stay for my daughter's stomach virus. Bastards.
This was how we fix it but chumps chose Biden cause they just wanna go back. It's gonna get really bad , hopefully this pandemic is the wake up call they need.
I was thinking last month that if someone actually invented an immortality drug(vs aging) and the rich and powerful naturally got first dibs/coveted it, would they all suddenly start taking climate change seriously? This reminded me of that lol.
I read this and immediately heard a snippet of a Hed(PE) song which would probably be my response.
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