Even if you're insured in the US, you often can't afford care anymore. My private insurance plan costs $6,000 a year and has a $5,000 deductible. It was very ba

Even if you're insured in the US, you often can't afford care anymore. My private insurance plan costs $6,000 a year and has a $5,000 deductible. It was very bad pre-ACA. I paid over $8,000 a year on the private market and never let it lapse so my kidney donation wouldn't become pre-existing. Under the ACA it dropped a ton. But it's gotten much worse over the past years as it was weakened.