Recent life experience that really helps to move my "single payer is the way" arguments from purely rhetoric to personal experience.
Wife and I are on Medicaid cause we're poor. She went in for surgery a few months ago and was telling me that the amount that was charged to Medicaid was something north of $30,000. What we owed? Zero, nothing, zip, nada. (It was a surgery that only took a few hours, she was admitted before 9AM and was out before 11AM. She feels so much better now its fucking amazing.)
$30,000 is something that we definitely couldn't have afforded when we tried to have private health insurance (which is why it took something like 15 years to get the surgery).
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If I pay $350 per month, I could get the platinum-tier insurance from work that covers 80% of expenses after I pay a $7000 annual deductible.
:shrug-outta-hecks: where'd all my excuses for the terror go
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Recent life experience that really helps to move my "single payer is the way" arguments from purely rhetoric to personal experience.
Wife and I are on Medicaid cause we're poor. She went in for surgery a few months ago and was telling me that the amount that was charged to Medicaid was something north of $30,000. What we owed? Zero, nothing, zip, nada. (It was a surgery that only took a few hours, she was admitted before 9AM and was out before 11AM. She feels so much better now its fucking amazing.)
$30,000 is something that we definitely couldn't have afforded when we tried to have private health insurance (which is why it took something like 15 years to get the surgery).