This has been a fun ride for us, husband was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer end of last year. Met the max oop for our plan very quickly and have everything on the minimum payment plan. Things reset in July and we returned from vacation (needed our son to have some normalcy) to a $1300 bill for his first chemo treatment in the new cycle. We asked if the oncology office will work with us so we’ll see what comes of that. It’s exhausting and I don’t know how people without insurance survive (although the current system is an absolute joke).
People without insurance die, even from easily preventable things. Then it bogs down the entire health care system because this small thing festers or gets worse. The person is taken to the ED, sometimes by EMS, using up resources. Then they spend hours in the ED being treated and using up hospital resources. Some go home, some have to be admitted taking up a bed and using more hospital resources.
Then, depending on the issue they could die. I’d want to throw in other options like SNF, ALF, LTC, or Rehab facility, but that requires insurance authorization or money, something people without insurance don’t have.
So no instead of using tax payer money to give people health care and get preventative treatment, we spend significantly more tax payer money on EMS and hospital resources.
The same argument, which has been tested and validated, can be said about it being cheaper to give the homeless a free small apartment.
Survive? No. Your job is to be profitable. If you’re not profitable, it’s in fate’s hands, because the business of medicine washes its hands of your filth.
This has been a fun ride for us, husband was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer end of last year. Met the max oop for our plan very quickly and have everything on the minimum payment plan. Things reset in July and we returned from vacation (needed our son to have some normalcy) to a $1300 bill for his first chemo treatment in the new cycle. We asked if the oncology office will work with us so we’ll see what comes of that. It’s exhausting and I don’t know how people without insurance survive (although the current system is an absolute joke).
People without insurance die, even from easily preventable things. Then it bogs down the entire health care system because this small thing festers or gets worse. The person is taken to the ED, sometimes by EMS, using up resources. Then they spend hours in the ED being treated and using up hospital resources. Some go home, some have to be admitted taking up a bed and using more hospital resources.
Then, depending on the issue they could die. I’d want to throw in other options like SNF, ALF, LTC, or Rehab facility, but that requires insurance authorization or money, something people without insurance don’t have.
So no instead of using tax payer money to give people health care and get preventative treatment, we spend significantly more tax payer money on EMS and hospital resources.
The same argument, which has been tested and validated, can be said about it being cheaper to give the homeless a free small apartment.
How is this a first world country exactly?
Survive? No. Your job is to be profitable. If you’re not profitable, it’s in fate’s hands, because the business of medicine washes its hands of your filth.