The meds I need in order to do anything cost $250/month but other than that I have fortunately avoided hospitals.
Wait no, I got the flu real bad and had to go to the ER. Cost me over 2k and all I got was a tylenol and a 8hr wait
Family had big surgery, had excellent insurance, went to rehab, something went wrong and his bones started coming apart and he reported agonizing pain and popping sounds in his reconstructed bones, and they ignored him and told him it was normal. By the time they realized it was a real issue, his whole anatomy was falling apart and he had to have multiple surgeries all the way across the state to fix it, traveling back and forth while not in great shape, and still isn’t okay and probably will not be again. I got in a shouting match with one of the nurses that tried to tell me it was basically his fault.
Other family member had major abdominal surgery, they sent her home after and only after she collapsed at home and came back did they realize that nothing they’d done the first time had actually addressed what was causing the problem. They did surgery again, this time fixing the actual issue, and then sent her to rehab for a few days and then back home before she could walk again. If I or someone hadn’t been around to help her out she probably would have starved to death or something.
Friend had a fairly minor health condition, had insurance, went to the doctor, insurance refused to pay the claim for basically no reason, wound up with bill collectors chasing her for thousands of dollars after she had paid out-of-pocket to have health insurance. Lawyer said there’s not much to do that wouldn’t cost more than they wanted to extract from her. Sorry.
I went to the doctor evading the whole system, just said that I had something wrong with me and wanted it checked by a specialist without waiting six months for a referral and wanted to pay for the visit. They said fine and quoted a price, I said fine. A lab sent me a separate bill for the lab work which the office hadn’t told me about, I called the office to ask about it, they said lol good luck.
There really is no way out, other than not to have health issues.
Oh, there’s a way out, but we’re not allowed to say it. Pray to St. Luigi for guidance…
I don’t think shooting executives is actually going to improve the healthcare, though.
Almost every movement that started randomly assassinating people from among the enemy side in order to reform civil society wound up making things quite a bit worse, in the long run.
Yeah, randomly. This isn’t random, and needs to go beyond just CEOs. There are entire boards that make these decisions to murder us. Like potato chips, you can’t stop with just one. They don’t like us murdering them? Then they need to stop murdering us.
All they’ll do is make sure to make even more profits to cover the cost of a bodyguard next time.
Even if you were right though and it did work, will someone simply move on to the next target? and the next? and the next? Negotiations with such “terrorist” activities (literally: with the design to inspire fear in the minds of the recipient) usually never ends well… b/c even if you mean well, the next person seeing that and following along does not. i.e. where does it end?
It opens the floodgates to a breakdown of law & order in society. And for the sake of argument let’s say that’s a good thing: what then? Who is prepared to build back up a new & better one - especially against the onslaught of literal kids making ghost guns and having learned that Might Makes Right, goes around vigilante-justice killing anyone who offended them, e.g. the person who most recently dumped them? (how dare they, don’t they know that i’M sUcH a NiCe GuY!?)
It’s short-term thinking at best. Also: I don’t see how “healthcare” would result from any of this?
But you are right: we aren’t allowed to say much here, on Discuss.Online. The acronym agencies are watching us right now, and moreover that’s just not what this instance is all about - there too, if someone wants to build something “better”, like a community where deeper discussions could be had, then someone needs to step up and actually do it. I’d add a link to it in the sidebar fwiw.
if someone wants to build something “better”, like a community where deeper discussions could be had
Maybe !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ? Stumbled upon it the other day, seems to fit the bill
I had to spend the weekend in the hospital. At somepoint I woke up and there was a lady asking me about my insurance. I didn’t have any. She asked me what insurance would I like? I was pretty out of it, and just said “whichever one you would want to have”.
Best thing that’s happened to me. That nice lady looked out for me and got me really good insurance for free. No copays or anything. Every thing is free for me. Tests, medication, extra things, cabs, eye dental everything. I have yet to find anything it doesn’t cover. And im at various dr appointments every week.
I was really lucky she was there for me.
I’m glad to hear that. It makes me think of a few times when I have been helped by someone who is a small cog in the machine showing me some compassion
I take a medicine which typically costs $600 per month. If I don’t take it, I won’t feel any different, but I could suddenly die (expected rate of one incident per 6 years).
For some reason, my insurance, which is really terrible most of the time, is covering it at $0 per month, despite not having even met my deductible this year. If this changes on January 1st due to plan changes (or changes at any other time, for whatever reason) then I’ll probably just be screwed.
So I just have to live with this uncertainty.
(What do people do when they have a $10,000 deductible and have to take this med?)
My wife broke her ankle, spent the night in the hospital hooked up to IV pain meds, and had surgery the next day.
Insurance said that the overnight stay was medically unnecessary, as the care could have been provided in a more appropriate setting. They only approved overnight stays in instances where the patient’s pain needed constant management or they were having surgery. Bonus points: there was a footnote on the denial papers saying that the person who denied the coverage had a medical background…in OBGYN. Not orthopedics.
Spent literally months appealing that before they begrudgingly agreed that it was covered, which makes us the lucky ones in the US Healthcare system.
