I have insurance, yet for certain things I have to make an appointment months in advance.
Since we are using anecdotes, I have known people with jobs who couldn’t afford to go to the doctor. I worked in a supermarket part-time that didn’t pay much but it was unionized so I got health insurance. Meanwhile, friends of mine who worked more and made more money couldn’t afford to get insurance on their own.
Healthy ‘barely adults’ STILL have access to insanely cheap healthcare because on average there’s virtually no payouts for that age bracket. The exact same way you did pre ACA. It’s just ever so slightly not as cheap.
I helped my sister in law (22 single no kids) get HC a few months ago.
Edit: As long as you don’t live in AZ. The GOP REEEEEALLY fucked over its AZ citizens
The best answer to Healthcare is to take care of yourself. If everyone actually did that then prescription use would plummet, supply would be high, demand would be low, and hopefully prices would drop.
But the pharmaceutical companies prefer we have lifelong illnesses that are treatable. Notice how all of the big associations preach finding the cure? How about we don’t get sick in the first fucking place? Stop endorsing products that are directly related to the disease you treat. Greedy bastards.
Americans have a lot of self inflicted problems. I know some things are unavoidable but if Healthcare wasn’t such a profitable business then maybe the people who really need it could afford it.
If insurance companies had less people making claims then they’d be able to save their money for the serious stuff - - like the life and death stuff.
This is similar to current treatments of ‘Rorke’s drift’ in Uk schools. Any, and all, victories against a power that is now 2nd or 3rd world must be rewritten as bad.
It’s a disgrace. I truly hope the US don’t end up as ashamed of their past as the UK is.
For those unfamiliar with the battle. The British army used to consider Zulu warriors as cavalry, due to their insane fitness, and absurd sprinting speeds.
China’s equivalent was called the “cow pen”(niu peng).
I said this in another thread.
These fellows playing identity politics, even the current democratic socialists, have marxist roots, which inevitably delve into marxist-leninism when they go further down the rabbit hole.
All because, unlike social democrats, they have not rejected THIS: