| HappySqurriel said: Since Mrstickball and SamuelRSmith have already made most of my points for me ... |
Yea, they apparently had your back pretty good. You guys would be a super team if you ever teamed up.
It is pretty obvious that an overhaul of our health care system in USA is drastically needed. One shouldn't be charged 20,000+ dollars for one night stay in a hospital after surgery (this happened to me and only included the hospital night stay + emergency check in (not the surgeon, mri, anesthesiologist, pathologist aka the most important part of saving my life from the appendicitis). They billed it so high because they knew they were going to write it off as a tax rebate. Funny how life saving procedures cost around 3,000 or so out of pocket but to rest and get a few pain pills with a nurse doing some basic vital signs tests every so often costs almost 7 times as much. Anyways, you can thank my appendicitis for adding to the cost of overall health care since I was uninsured. I paid (with the help of my parents) most of the people that helped save my life. I just didn't pay for the overpriced room and drugs.
(I was going to delete this first response but I'll leave it)
That 35 dollars a week (cost for cheapest health plan my employer provides) doesn't sound like too much for someone that makes a decent wage but that is almost half of a days work for me (I make about 10.70 per hour before tax). What sucks is that everyone wants the system to be fair (everyone should pay what I am paying). Well the problem is why should I (someone who is almost always healthy) pay so much per week for a crap plan that I will probably never use (I don't like taking pills or going to the doctors). I would like to have it in case of an emergency or accident but I am to the point where I just don't care. Someone who is obese, smoker, has a disease should pay more because they are taking prescription drugs, going to the doctors more, etc.
