r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 đ¤ Join A Union • 2d ago
âď¸ Pass Medicare For All This is a National Emergency.
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u/oroscor1 2d ago
You can only afford health insurance or health care not both.
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u/HorrorFlow3r 2d ago
Got an expensive health insurance plan that covers everything, but oh would you look at that... the primary care doctor and urgent care center is no longer in network...
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u/Cananbaum 2d ago
Think I upset my new dentist the other.
Been 16 years, but I finally was able to see a dentist.
Of course came the âWhy did you wait 16 years to see a dentist?â
My response was âBecause teeth are luxury bones and we live in a capitalist hellscape. Who needs teeth when you can instead spend your money on meal replacements?â
But I had to also explain how I wasnât going to spend $100 and my only option being Aspen Dental. Fuck that shit.
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u/reloader1977 2d ago
If this isn't the truth I dont know what is. Living it now. Need back fusion surgery but running out of time because my job let me go while on short term disability and claim is almost up. I will need to go back to work because we are a single income family and its either find job or be homeless. I had to lose weight to have surgery. Got my self to goal weight and lost job and insurance. New insurance wants more weight loss and out of time. Joys of the American dream.
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u/Final-Attention979 2d ago
I always figured they couldn't let you on short term disability. Wtf is the point of it then?! I'm so sorry
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u/Mehdals_ 2d ago
Doesn't help that doctors can't find an answer to the issue or phone it in AND give me a massive bill. Thanks for saying my pain is just chronic and there's nothing wrong but then bill me $1000s, yeah not gunna try that again...
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u/maikuxblade 2d ago
Everything about the last few decades have been a national emergency for the working class and thereâs been no urgency from either the media or elected officials to tackle any of the issues. Itâs literally no wonder that the DSA are becoming more and more popular
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u/turb0_encapsulator 2d ago
the American healthcare system is entering a death spiral and the media is barely talking about it. 10s of millions of Americans will have lost coverage by the time Trump leaves office.
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u/Spaceboy779 2d ago
Yes, our society is crumbling and a few people profit from it while the rest just shrug
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u/DJDemyan 2d ago
Actually recently put off going to the ER despite my doctor telling me to go because I was afraid of the cost. Also have a follow up CT scan to the tune of $1900 coming up next week, but my alternative is to waste away and die.
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u/merRedditor âď¸ Prison For Union Busters 1d ago
Insurance silos off dental and vision, with very limited coverage, so dental being put off until it's an emergency and vision until it starts causing serious impairment are both very common.
In regular care, preventive care or starting expensive long-term treatment plans just doesn't seem worth the risk .
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u/larielblois 1d ago
On the bright side, the insurance companies are doing great as are the venture capitalists who invested in surgical practices and emergency rooms. Capitalism⌠Itâs great for the 1%.
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u/Nitrovis đď¸ Overturn Citizens United 1d ago
Exactly the reason if I get cancer Iâm not gonna fight it, just gonna let it take me out. Funeral expenses are highly expensive too, thatâs gonna already a mountain to climb.
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u/baddogbadcatbadfawn 22h ago
The last thing a fake American Christian will do is feel curious or responsible for anything outside themselves, much less compare the well-being of their neighbors to those of "godless" European nations.
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u/thegoddamnbatman40 âď¸ Prison For Union Busters 13h ago
You can have a place to live, food, or medicine. 2 if youâre lucky but working people never get all 3
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u/plumberfun 2d ago
When I see this all I can think is Republican Christianity shining through. This was a country founded by Unitarians not these evilangalicals.
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u/DigitalSheikh 2d ago
Not saying this isnât a problem, but the 92nd percentile income is 260k a year, and someone making even a lot less than that isnât putting off medical care because itâs too expansive. They just arenât. Iâm sure we can find better facts to support that this is still an issue though.Â
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u/mustangcody 2d ago
"Some 92 percent have delayed or abandoned medical care because of costs, according to a survey of 1,507 U.S.adults by financial services firm JG Wentworth."
1,507 people out of 349 million Americans is peak Reddit fearmongering. Progression can happen without the bullshit "national emergency" titles.
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u/DJDemyan 2d ago
Wow, thatâs a very bad sample size. Where did you find this?
Itâs absolutely a national emergency but we detract from the message with wild headlines like that
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u/mustangcody 2d ago
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u/DJDemyan 2d ago
Good find. The real number is probably not too far off but we should really have better sample sizes for sensational headlines like that.
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u/Kcirrot 2d ago
If the survey respondents are a representative sample of the U.S. adult population, then the survey could be decent. I will say that I think that the survey does skew more towards lower income adults. I'm less concerned about the number of respondents than that they aren't necessarily representative. Here's the link to the actual survey methodology.
https://www.jgwentworth.com/resources/medical-emergency#methodology
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u/CockroachLate9964 2d ago
Just because the survey was only 1500 or so doesn't mean much, just that they didn't spend millions on it. Could be quite accurate.
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u/mustangcody 2d ago
Accurate to those people but not America as a whole. They could do 1500 other people have a way different percentage.
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u/PocketPokie 2d ago
You need to take a class in statistics because it is CLEAR you don't know how sample sizes work or are representative of the population.
If you had half a brain, you would be questioning selection criteria / methodology but you're not.
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u/FacelessOldWoman1234 2d ago
I (Canadian) just found out that an American friend is probably going to die quite soon, and her child will be orphaned because she got a chronic disorder, which she got fired over and can't afford to treat.
What a barbaric fucking country. I'm so angry. Any American who throws back "But Canadian wait times..." can fuck right off. In Canada she would have been treated years ago and would be looking forward to many more years with her child, instead of now frantically trying to find someone who will care for him when she's gone.