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Originally Posted by Robbie
It's just a shame that the Federal govt. first made going to the doctor and getting medication so expensive that people can't afford to pay out of pocket anymore. They did that over the last 35 years or so starting with "HMO's" which was when I started watching the costs at hospitals and doctors go up.
Then they made sure that Big Pharma can charge us more than any other country on Earth for the same exact medicines. They even started busting people driving across the border to Canada to fill their prescriptions.
And of course...allowing Hospitals to bill you pretty much whatever they choose.
You have to ask for a detailed bill from a hospital.
$50 for a paper dixie cup of water to take your $10 tylenol pill.
No other industries in the United States are allowed to do these kinds of things EXCEPT medical.
Some of this price gouging would be get other industries thrown in prison and out of business.
Which is why this guy has no CHOICE but to play this stupid game of health insurance for EVERYTHING. Every prescription, every doctor visit, etc.
And do you think the insurance companies actually pay out the over-inflated prices to drug stores and hospitals? No, they do not.
This guy foolishly thinking he could pay his own way isn't the problem.
The rip-off health care system is what's fucked up.
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it wasn't cheap before. Getting old was a license to just die.It hasn't been cheap since I was a kid.Thats when the Doctor lived in the nicer house on the street and his wife was the nurse. From him, you got very very basic healthcare. I remember 30 yrs ago, my brother was 10 and had to be taken to the emergency room,if my dad didn't have insurance it would of been 5k and that was 30 yrs ago. Most of the advancement we have in medicine was because the gov dumped mountains of money in to healthcare with medicare.