• 87Six@lemmy.zip
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    24 hours ago

    What’s the point of health insurance anyway?

    They just charge exorbitant prices for basic BS. Single bandage at the hospital? $20 please JUST for the bandage, nothing yet for the nurse, no no that’s separate.

    Meanwhile you could get 10 bandages at the local pharmacy for $5 and if you’re nice the clerk wraps it around your wound.

    The only system that makes sense is a controlled state system like we have in the EU where the prices are strictly regulated.

    Hell, even here the prices are high, but not THAT high.

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      23 hours ago

      They just charge exorbitant prices for basic BS. Single bandage at the hospital? $20 please JUST for the bandage, nothing yet for the nurse, no no that’s separate.

      Technically, that’s the hospital extorting the insurance company, but it’s connected for sure.