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I'm glad you had such a good experience. Not a counterpoint, though. Healthcare is like running water, bridges, or banking systems - a high-volume system with

I'm glad you had such a good experience. Not a counterpoint, though. Healthcare is like running water, bridges, or banking systems - a high-volume system with extremely high stakes. We need many nines of consistency as protection against preventable harm. There are around ~35M hospital admissions in the US every year. Even if 9/10 patient experiences are like yours, that means more than 3.5 million people had a sub-par experience that year - that's the entire population of LA. We need to strive for a much higher bar of quality and consistency.

stouset 4y ago
I’m not defending the current system at all. I was simply trying to say that, within the confines of the current system, this particular actor has not gone out of their way to fuck me over in the same way that I hear about so many other actors. I have no idea if my experience with Aetna is common or an outlier. My hope was that by posting this, it would provide a data point for people forced to choose a private health insurance provider in the future. I also hoped to hear from others who had experiences either mirroring or opposite my own. If I could, I would dismantle our current system in a heartbeat and replace it with some form of single-payer. I can’t, so I tried to provide information about one player within the incredibly fucked up system Americans are forced to operate within.
bcrl 4y ago
My father had a stroke here in Ontario at the beginning of COVID. Total out of pocket costs: $0. This includes 2 ambulance transfers between hospitals because our local hospital didn't have the correct facilities for diagnostic imaging. The only real downside of the system in Canada is that medications aren't covered, but most people get some amount of drug coverage in their employee benefits.

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I'm glad you had such a good experience. Not a counterpoint, though. Healthcare is like running water, bridges, or banking systems - a high-volume system with

by Centigonal 4y ago

stouset 4y ago
I’m not defending the current system at all. I was simply trying to say that, within the confines of the current system, this particular actor has not gone out of their way to fuck me over in the same way that I hear about so many other actors. I have no idea if my experience with Aetna is common or an outlier. My hope was that by posting this, it would provide a data point for people forced to choose a private health insurance provider in the future. I also hoped to hear from others who had experiences either mirroring or opposite my own. If I could, I would dismantle our current system in a heartbeat and replace it with some form of single-payer. I can’t, so I tried to provide information about one player within the incredibly fucked up system Americans are forced to operate within.
bcrl 4y ago
My father had a stroke here in Ontario at the beginning of COVID. Total out of pocket costs: $0. This includes 2 ambulance transfers between hospitals because our local hospital didn't have the correct facilities for diagnostic imaging. The only real downside of the system in Canada is that medications aren't covered, but most people get some amount of drug coverage in their employee benefits.