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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy
You guys are getting ASS FUCKED in the western world. I'm shocked you slaves of the free world are not rioting in the streets. ASS FUCKED WITH NO LUBE!!!!!
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Quoted for truth. I'm an American who isn't rioting in the streets so I feel as much to blame. But every time I see a poll by Americans that says 60%++ of them are against Universal Health Care I think, "What can I do to fight that??"
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Originally Posted by ThunderBalls
Anyone that defends the right wing bullshit is either getting rich from health care or a complete fucking retard that should be banned from voting.
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Quoted for truth.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Billy
Do you need health insurance if you don't own anything? What do poor people get by with?
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Poor people have amazing government-sponsored healthcare that even includes dental. (Although they do fuck older poor people in that regard. If you need a filling, they prefer to just pull your tooth out. Kids however get whatever they need no questions asked.)
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Originally Posted by BCyber
Dam $50 co-pay for a regular visit??? My doctor only charges like $75 and only makes me pay half because I don't have insurance right now.
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My son broke his arm while I was carrying a high-deductible insurance policy and it required a hospital visit because he needed to be sedated while they reset it. The bill came in around $5K. Although my insurance wouldn't PAY anything because I had my deductible to meet, they did apply their negotiated discounts to the bill... I ended up paying around $800 total after the discounts. That's seriously fucked.
On the other hand... I had a lot of dental and jaw surgery that no insurance would cover and I constantly negotiated better rates than I was quoted for paying cash.
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Originally Posted by tony404
nice thought but in the real world it wouldnt work like that. There is no real health insurance or government in dental and they arent giving anything away. most you call for a price on something and they tell you they cant tell you. You have a heart attack you want to pull out the phone and start shopping?
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Dental discount plans are great if you don't have dental insurance. You get a rate sheet and the participating dentists can't charge you more than what's on the rate sheet.
Medicaid has great dental coverage for kids and pregnant women and I bet the coverage for government employees (including military) is pretty good too. I know a guy in the military that got lasik fully covered!
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Originally Posted by kane
My mom takes medicine for her depression. She has tried a few different ones over the years with varying degrees of success. Her doctor got a new med in and gave her some samples to try. It worked brilliantly. It was the best thing she had ever tried. The insurance company told her and the doctor that they wouldn't pay for it until she had tried at least 3 other medicines that were on the list they provided. Of course the medicines on the list were a lot less money. Luckily, she had already tried 2 of them so she tried a third for a while and it didn't work nearly as well as the new one so she was able to switch. To me it is a clear case of the insurance company telling the doctor what to give the patient.
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My father-in-law is going through this right now. He has epilepsy and has been taking the same medication for years. A generic recently came out and his insurance company sent him a letter that they would no longer pay for the name brand option so he would have to switch. Since he switched he is having seizures a couple times a month as opposed to once every few months. They're still telling him he has to stay on the generic.
