• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
    9·
    3 hours ago

    An 81-year old grandmother began posting Minecraft videos…

    Awww, that’s cute

    to fund her grandson’s cancer treatment

    There’s the American hopeful story.

  • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    26 minutes ago

    I work for a month for profit hospital, and and have full medical insurance through them. I had injured my knees recently so I went to a PCP to get the ball rolling. These are the steps insurance requires

    1. Go to PCP so they could write me a referral to an Ortho doc

    2. Go-to Ortho doc, who writes me an order for an XRay

    3. Get X-Ray, they don’t find anything but this gets me a referral to PT. (I got a call from a local PT group, who later said that my insurance doesn’t cover them, but if I wanted to pay out of pocket it’d be about $250 for a group of 5 sessions. I thought I’d be better off going through work.)

    4. I get scheduled for a few PT visits and my Health System Rehab facility. It was most conducted by Kins students. I did the exercises with the bands, no improvement with my knees whatsoever and even when doing the stair exercises and hurting my knee in the process they had zero clue what it could be. I increased range of motion with my leg but that’s it. Cancel further visits.

    5. Go back to my PCP, orders an MRI. According to it, everything is intact but the injury could have stressed things. Still can’t tell exactly what’s wrong.

    6. End up getting a steroid shot in both knees, which helped for about 3 months.

    7. All those completely wiped out 2 years worth of FSA, and the only way I didn’t get slammed with a couple thousand dollars out of pocket is I still have an HSA from a previous job. Also found out it was more expensive for insurance to pay the rehab clinic that I work for than it would have been to pay out of pocket at a local place

    Welcome to American Healthcare. Where the people who voted themselves to get top notch, taxpayer funded, lifetime healthcare for them and their families then vote themselves to not having to pay taxes again…that also say govt funded healthcare is sOcIaLiSm

    • Folstar@lemmus.orgEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Sounds about right. Think how many trained medical professionals who should be tending to patients had to spend time tending to private insurance for just this one case. Now multiply it by every single case, some more than others. We talk about a medical professional shortage in the USA when simply freeing them from insurance timesinks would be an immediate, huge jump in available work hours and morale.

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 hours ago

    I am so done with all the orphan grinding stories filling communities like “wholesome something” or “made me smile whatever”.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    I mean it’s either healthcare or don’t close and reopen random straits. Clearly the voters’ representatives have spoken and the people prefer the second one

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    10 hours ago

    Lol at the $35,000. My brother’s cancer drug (which is luckily funded by his insurance at the moment – the same insurance company that balked at paying for an MRI of his brain while he had a six-week long migraine and was unable to walk) costs $40,000 a month.

  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.caEnglish
    159·
    21 hours ago

    Yeah, but remember, their taxes are so low that businesses can afford to pay their employees so much that most Anericans are actually incredibly wealthy. Just go out on the street and ask any American.

    …not that guy… not that guy either… or that guy… that guy doesn’t count… no not that guy either…

    • zergtoshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      10 hours ago

      What about raising the tax so that increased pay for the employees increases the amount of deductibles for the company which in turn reduces the actual tax they have to pay?
      Has that ever been tried before?
      Maybe some decades ago?
      …before Reagan?

        • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          They want the power to do whatever they will while enjoying the protections of the publicly funded state against anyone who might try to stop them.

          And for the most part they get it. But their power isn’t total yet. We still have a window of possibility.

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      14 hours ago

      Yeah, but remember, their taxes are so low that businesses can afford to pay their employees so much that most Anericans are actually incredibly wealthy.

      That’s the theory for “trickle down” economics, but in reality it’s piss trickling down.

    • Tiral@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      6 hours ago

      I mean, you’re kind of arguing how great the USA is. You put it on a pedestal as a beacon of perfection. Yeah it doesn’t have free healthcare, you’re absolutely right, I’m not sure what you’re point is? There are a lot of things wrong with the USA, it’s a huge country with quite a bit more diversity then other first world countries.

      Point being, why do you hold the USA to such high standards? If you think most Americans feel the US is “the best” you’re sorley mistaken.

    • tio_bira@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      17 hours ago

      Unironic all my friends with their washed brains argument in favor of united states…

      “but they got even more money than us working on mcdonalds duh”

      • mavu@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        that’s the beauty of “feelgood story” over real help: It doesn’t have to be real, it makes people feel good for a bit and then is forgotten, if the people it’s about die horribly 2 days later that is irrelevant.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish
      131·
      14 hours ago

      These kinds of stories don’t make me feel good at all. It’s so fucking depressing. It’s only “feel good” to USAians.