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I mean, if we're throwing around lived experiences, my mother had thyroid cancer and after health insurance we ended up spending ~$1,000 all things considered.
by bhupy 6y ago
I mean, if we're throwing around lived experiences, my mother had thyroid cancer and after health insurance we ended up spending ~$1,000 all things considered.
These kinds of anecdotes are important, but for every anecdote on one side of the equation, there exists an anecdote on the other. The only way to meaningfully make sense of the status quo is by looking at the system as a whole so that we know what the median experience is vs the outliers.
- JamesBarney 6y agoOh I know it works quite often. > These kinds of anecdotes are important, but for every anecdote on one side of the equation, there exists an anecdote on the other. I think this would be mean catastrophic insurance failure isn't very rare.
- brutusborn 6y agoI agree that we need to look at the system as a whole, but outliers also tell us a lot. The examples above where families become financially ruined by healthcare cl probably happen rarely, if at all, in a country with socialized healthcare. To me, the fact that it can happen even once in the US acts more as a red flag than a meaningful statistic.
- rayiner 6y ago> The examples above where families become financially ruined by healthcare cl probably happen rarely, if at all, in a country with socialized healthcare. Sure, but the scenario where a family has extra money in their pockets because they don’t get sick also happens more often than in a country with socialized healthcare.