• ono@lemmy.caOP
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    11 months ago

    The fact that not accepting health insurance helps keep prices low says volumes about the US healthcare system.

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      11 months ago

      Why don’t they accept my $240 a month subscription plan that “graciously” allows me to co-pay $30 for every visit and then gives me 80% off meds that shouldn’t cost that much in the first place?

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        11 months ago

        That’s gotta be subsized, either through employer or Obama care. No way anyone gets a premium that low, unless maybe like a very high deductible plan for a healthy young single person? But that just makes your point even more of course.

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      11 months ago

      Egh that’s just more profit than anything. They are making sure they have the buying power rather than sending 85% of those sales to insurance.

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      11 months ago

      Yep, so basically, sign up for the HDHP that offers only a 30 minute annual checkup and menial bankruptcy protection if your issue is short term, for a few hundred bucks per months in premiums, then pay for your actual care needs through a transparent retail organization.

      Insane that’s the best option. Fuck insurers, their lobbies and those who keep them installed.

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    11 months ago

    Yeah but you have to buy 5 knee surgeries wrapped in shrink wrap. I mean it’s a quality knee surgery, but I just don’t think I can go through 5.