• Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      There are TV commercials all the time for "Yes you may be on Medicaid, but you're only on Medacaid part A, what you really need to not die in agony is Medicaid part C. Why is everyone not just automatically on that plan? Shut the fuck up and go fill out several days worth of forms."

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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        10 months ago

        Part C is a privatised program in which the government hands over your Medicare money to UnitedHealthcare or whomever so that they can instead put you on basically just a dogshit marketplace plan. You then have to deal with all of the worst problems of insurance in exchange for... Uhhh... Maybe a couple added benefits like super limited dental coverage?

        It fucking sucks and should be illegal.

    • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
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      10 months ago

      so you have health insurance but we still need to do 3 rounds of stuff we know is unnecessary/won't work before they allow what you actually need

      • underisk@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        i will never get over how insane it is that private medical insurance companies have any say whatsoever in the care you are allowed to have. its the death panel shit they made up to smear universal healthcare, but real, legal, and in the hands of organizations that have a monetary interest in not paying for anything because if you die, you can't file more claims.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      It's the same energy as "low unemployment" (ignoring the fact that people who have given up looking for work are not counted, also people working only part-time)

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Anyone who wonders why more people than ever being on private health insurance might result in anger towards the status quo has never had to see a doctor before.