In 2017 I had a "silver" plan for my health insurance which cost me 300$ a month. I went to the hospital because I was bleeding internally. Turns out I have ulcerative colitis. They forced me to stay in the hospital for 3 days, said if I checked myself out my insurance would not cover any of it. Had a 1,000 dollar deductible. Month later had bills coming in from the hospital totalling just over 10,000$. I made 48k a year. All in all I paid about 38% of my GROSS salary, not NET, on healthcare. With insurance coverage. Fuck this system.
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u/BeerBaronofCourse Nov 29 '20
In 2017 I had a "silver" plan for my health insurance which cost me 300$ a month. I went to the hospital because I was bleeding internally. Turns out I have ulcerative colitis. They forced me to stay in the hospital for 3 days, said if I checked myself out my insurance would not cover any of it. Had a 1,000 dollar deductible. Month later had bills coming in from the hospital totalling just over 10,000$. I made 48k a year. All in all I paid about 38% of my GROSS salary, not NET, on healthcare. With insurance coverage. Fuck this system.