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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
here it is in a nut shell  |
Sorry, both of you are so wrong it is laughable. Ma Dalton is on the nose with it. I spent 7 years in healthcare insurance for BCBS. When they went for profit it was like New Years, Christmas and the 4th of July for them.
We spend far more than any other country and often the care is substandard, the health insurers control the care almost entirely since they decide what is covered and what is not.
A friend of my wife's learned that in an emergency situation better off not to say you have insurance until after they help you.
In a metropolitan city the woman was pregnant, she began bleeding. Husband rushed her to hospital. She was foreign national from 1st world. Told the ER people she had insurance through husband's job, foreign company with US office/factory. She bled out and lost the baby because the hospital, pretty big one, said they could not treat her until her health insurance was confirmed.
Meanwhile she watched so many people come in, say no insurance or not even speak english and get treated right away.
She survived, baby died. When she got on her feet she informed her husband you have 24 hours to pack your shit up. I'm getting out of this place.
That's the impression the world has of our healthcare system. "If you go to the US don't get sick, they will fuck you up the ass."