• Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 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.

    3a. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

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

    4. 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

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    1 hour 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

  • MithranArkanere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    59 minutes ago

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

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    5 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
    144·
    15 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…

    • Tiral@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 hour 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.

    • zergtoshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      5 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
          2·
          1 hour 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·
      9 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.

    • tio_bira@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      12 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·
        18 minutes 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·
      9 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.

      • wpb@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        8 hours ago

        You need a source for the fact that a euro spent on American weapons is a euro you can no longer spend on reversing the dismantling of socialized health care that has been going on since the 80s in pretty much every single EU country? Do you need a source for object permanence too?

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          9·
          8 hours ago

          Good news, socialized healthcare is cheaper than non-socialized healthcare.

          Several EU governments spend LESS money (as a percentage of GDP) on healthcare than the US does, while having universal healthcare. That’s quite literally not counting the part that Americans pay out of pocket or for their private insurance, just what the US government pays for the few programs it does have (Medicare, Medicaid, veterans, etc). Add in everything the American citizens themselves pay and not a single country spends as much.

          In the Baltics we’ve been consistently hitting 3-4% in recent years despite the target being 2% (which most countries are barely hitting). We have socialized healthcare. Poland is now leading the pack around 4.5%, they still have socialized healthcare.

          Russia’s waging a literal war, has military spending over 6% of GDP and still has universal healthcare.

          The US itself could easily afford universal healthcare. Insurance companies, hospitals and even many doctors don’t want it because they’d all make less money.

          So again, source that socialized healthcare will be dismantled because of a slight increase in military spending?

          The real danger to social systems in the developed world is the aging population resulting in the tax base shrinking.

          • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
            6·
            7 hours ago

            oh and get this, EU/Uk also have private healthcare if patients see wait times are too long, USA only, through propaganda only see this as black and white, they dont think you can have universal/low pay, free healthcare and private healthcare at the same time. dental care is different though, it mostly out of pocket for most people.

            • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              2·
              7 hours ago

              Yup. I’ve only ever needed this to see a psychiatrist about my ADHD personally. It’s expensive (still much cheaper than the US), but you get an appointment in a week or 2.

              And the drugs they prescribe are still covered by the national healthcare system so once the treatment plan is in place, you visit the expensive doctor once or twice a year and get prescription refills through your GP (no need for a visit and the visit is free anyway), doesn’t end up costing too much in the long run.