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Originally Posted by onwebcam
On the topic of health care. My 20 year old son who was unemployed and uninsured at the time had a motorcycle accident a few months back. It wasn't that bad really primarily serious road rash. He went to the ER. The doctors "believed" he had broken many bones and decided he should undergo a series of body scans. 8 hours later he was sent home with a bag of bandages, ointment and a bill for $30,000+. He will never be able to repay that and I sure the hell won't be so I'm suggesting bankruptcy at 20. BTW they believed he was insured at the time otherwise they wouldn't have done all that they did.
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despite my right-of-center leanings, i believe in single payer exactly because of this...healthcare is defacto a monopoly/oligopoly model, with pointless financing mechanisms like insurers & them making profits for bankrolling a severely price gouged procedure, or drug, just absurd to let the private sector ransack a persons health needs with giant profits. our health system is like the cable TV model on steroids.
one of my big obama letdowns was when he never fought for the public option. shameful, & it was democrats that killed it in the senate...max baucus, specifically.
...gotta get to single payer, with a private mechanism for moneyed people that can pay for primo care.
