The most expensive plan on my state's marketplace. Honestly, I'm going to have to start selling myself, or my body parts, to be able to afford this shit.
but instead of federal buildings its going to be health insurance companies.
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Free country full of "free" people that are fine with this shit until it hits them
They are even fine with this shit when it does hit them. My rethuglican father wakes up and spends every moment in pain because an insurance company fucked him over a decade ago. Dropped his coverage from an accident that wasn't his fault. Wouldn't pay to even find out what the fuck was wrong with him. Bribed the doctors to lie and bullshit him.
He was in agony and waited until he was on medicare before being able to afford diagnosis of pinched multiple vertebrae. But because of the years of extreme inflammation due to nerve damage, he stopped being active and gained a lot of weight. In order to work on his back he had to get a bariatric sugery to loose weight or he can't breathe. He also ended up developing a hernia in his esophagus which they found and removed.
That cost over $30k to the hospital, but becauae of medicaid he only paid $670 (and a decade of constant suffering and agony).
I stopped trying to get him to stop voting republican. He's happy to be tourtured by the system he helpd perpetuate.
Maybe keeps Republican because he wants the greater good... Which means the possibility of you eventually going through the same thing
He wonders why I want TF out of this shit hole country....
Its been this way for years. Its just gotten much worse over time.
I understand that, but this is insurance premiums not the surprise hospital bill.