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Source link https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-expenditures-vary-across-population/#Share%20of%20total%20health%20spending,%20by%20per
by jpm_sd 2y ago
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Don't assume high spending necessarily means poor overall health. Two people in my household are on modern fancy drugs for autoimmune conditions (upadacitinib and etanercept). They work spectacularly well and cost our insurance company thousands of dollars a month. And the family members taking them are doing great!
- voidwtf 2y agoboth my cousins have a similar condition, one of my cousins cannot live without these drugs/transfusions. his prior insurer cut him off once he hit 1m lifetime care, he had a rough childhood
- whynotminot 2y agoWow, didn’t know that kind of “max cost” cutoff existed. I thought the whole point of insurance was “I’ll probably be fine but if things really go south, good thing I have insurance.”
- apwell23 2y agoyes you have to go to india on medical visa after that
- ceejayoz 2y agoThe ACA banned lifetime caps.
- reverius42 2y agoThanks Obama!
- carso 2y agoOne of the underappreciated accomplishments of Obamacare was the end of those 1m caps. One of the ongoing failures in health care policy is out of control drug costs.
- ceejayoz 2y agoYeah; I'm on a biologic for psoriasis. $25k buys me a single milliliter of fluid that I self-inject once every twelve weeks. It works wonders, but yikes.
- switch007 2y agoWoah is that a typo? $108,000 a year for psoriasis? Would it be cheaper to fly somewhere?
- ceejayoz 2y agoThat's why I have the health insurance. I pay a $5 copay on it. I don't think it's sustainable on the national scale much longer; the insurance premium costs me twice my mortgage each month.
- switch007 2y agoOh the wording was ambiguous. Sounded like that was what you paid. $5 is more reasonable!
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI assume this is sarcasm. Either way, it highlights the fundamental challenge with how healthcare incentives are set up in the US
- switch007 2y agoI'm lost. Just a confused European trying to understand US healthcare
- s1artibartfast 2y agoOh, in that case your comment highlights the difference between the obvious and direct cost to the patient $5, and the less direct cost of $100k/yr which the patients are also paying. In the US you might have the copay $5, but you also pay for your insurance plan, which might be like $30k/year for a good family plan.