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You're part of the (I would guess) about 25-30% of the US population where the stars align perfectly and you receive a mostly positive experience from the US he
by tdfx 5y ago
You're part of the (I would guess) about 25-30% of the US population where the stars align perfectly and you receive a mostly positive experience from the US healthcare system. You are employed full-time, with an employer that provides a generous health plan, have had no long interruptions of employment/coverage, and you don't appear to have any serious chronic issues.
You're still being robbed of a ton of money (US healthcare procedure costs, i.e. pregnancy, have no actual bearing on what it costs to provide that service), but the system is so opaque and convoluted that there's no personal benefit for you to track down how much. You and I and many others live in more or less ignorant bliss about how much money is being redirected from our pockets to parasites in the insurance/provider system because we don't know any better.
We're still losing in this situation, it just doesn't feel as acutely painful to us as it does to those who are outside the upper middle class bubble.
- iammisc 5y agoI'm not sure how I'm losing. My employers contribution plus mine is less than what I get out. Obviously, some healthy man or woman somewhere is making up for me, but that's the nature of insurance. Anyway, you said the system doesn't work and is broken. If it works for 1/3 of people, the system works and the question is how to make it work for everyone.
- JohnFen 5y agoIf it only works for 1/3 of people, it's broken and needs to be repaired.
- iammisc 5y agoRepaired? Sure. Replaced? Not so sure.
- JohnFen 5y agoI'm with you about that. As I mentioned upthread, I'm not in the "burn it all down" camp -- that strikes me as being along the same lines as declaring that a problematic but huge piece of software should be fixed be rewriting it from scratch. But the status quo isn't acceptable.
- tdfx 5y ago> I'm not sure how I'm losing. My employers contribution plus mine is less than what I get out. That's because of inflated provider costs. We are drastically overpaying for each medical visit and it's coming out of all our of pockets, to the benefit of a small few.