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Konsek posted:Serious post: I am not from the USA and have no idea how the system there works. Do you seriously have to pay for basic rights like healthcare and not dying? Six figures? Also: Uninsured right now. 90$ upfront of they'll refuse to see you. It also never costs less than 90$ and I've never had to wait less than an hour despite always having an appointment. Last appointment I had was due to a rash caused by medication and that plus a steroid shot and "other fees" ran me about 150$. Self-bought insurance isn't much better, there's only a weird deadzone where the actual benefits the insurance pays out eclipse what you pay in premiums and it's typically somewhere in the millions of dollars. Unless you have a "career" job at a major company if something actually really super bad happens your options are empty your life savings and/or go bankrupt or die. Maybe just die anyway if you get something expensive like cancer that the hospital can weasel out of giving you knowing you can't pay
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No, it's not perfect, and if I were to shell out the extra few bucks I could take the 5% option. But I don't plan on loving with any rattlesnakes n the future till time comes that I can modify my insurance. And while yeah, 15k still blows, it's a hell a lot better than 150k
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SocketWrench posted:No, it's not perfect, and if I were to shell out the extra few bucks I could take the 5% option. But I don't plan on loving with any rattlesnakes n the future till time comes that I can modify my insurance. And while yeah, 15k still blows, it's a hell a lot better than 150k Either amount is unpayable for the majority of americans, does it matter how many zeroes it has?
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Jul 27, 2015 15:23
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SocketWrench posted:No, it's not perfect, and if I were to shell out the extra few bucks I could take the 5% option. But I don't plan on loving with any rattlesnakes n the future till time comes that I can modify my insurance. And while yeah, 15k still blows, it's a hell a lot better than 150k What about things you don't plan on? And there's plenty of medical procedures that are way more than 150k. Remember when the CEO of AOL complained that an employee's sick baby cost them over a million dollars in medical costs? So you'd owe over $100,000 in your situation. Is that still doable? Not trying to be snarky.
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