Perfect example of how the Healthcare system in the USA works:
The wife and I go to the doctor on the same day at the same place. She goes in first, I go in second. She is diagnosed with a virus and let’s me know. I am diagnosed with the same one during my appointment. I also went in for a Tetanus shot update.
She gets a prescription, I do not. I also don’t get my Tetanus shot. We both still have to pay.
We have to pay the health insurance, we have to pay the co-pay, I have to pay for another visit to get the shot I didn’t get in the first place, and still deal with the virus itself which will probably be gone by the time I get back to the doctor.
They just made triple money on one virus and one shot. Healthcare doesn’t need fixing, GOP? Then you pay our premiums, our co-pays, and our prescriptions. You argue with the insurance policy holder that I did not, in fact, get the shot I am being billed for and that yes I need a second shot to be covered by the policy. You can argue with them that as I did not get the medical care I was promised and paid for that I should not have to have that last visit taken out of my deductible, that I should get my co-pay back, and that the doctor’s office should eat that visit.
Healthcare isn’t like any other industry; if you don’t get the proper service or product from a doctor it can be the difference between life and death, not the difference between a widescreen DVD or a Full Screen one. Not the difference between strawberry ice cream and raspberry ice cream.
My situation isn’t life threatening by any means as it is a simple virus of the throat that is more irritating then anything. Yet, as with other times in my medically infiltrated life, the lack of care is the concern. How many people have to double or triple pay to get better when it could have and should have been taken care of the first time? Our bodies and our organs are not something we can just take back to the store and exchange for the right one. If something goes wrong with our bodies and our organs we are going to have to spend even more money to get it fixed.
THIS, right here, is one of the many reasons that healthcare sucks in the USA and why it needs to be fixed. (I have about $1.5 million more reasons but that is for another time.) People are in debt, people are ruined, people are literally falling apart because the insurance industry wants to make their buck even when the doctor makes a mistake, but when the doctor makes a mistake the patient pays for it three times:
1. They pay for the first visit.
2. They pay for the second visit.
3. They pay with their health, and sometimes, with their lives.
I usually don’t talk about politics, even with people I know, because it usually leads to really bad things. My views on many things are so far out there that even the worst dictator in the world would say, “Dude, chill.” Yet, I urge anyone reading this to call their Senator, their congressperson, their local representative. Write them, email them, show up on the steps of their office.
Let them know that healthcare needs to be fixed and it needs to be fixed now….because the way things are going you might not have the chance to do it come tomorrow.
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