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Originally Posted by whell
BS, and more BS.
The "average" medical insurance plan has about a $1500 individual deductible, $3000 for a family. In an average plan year, less than 20% of participants in a typical insured group meet or exceed their deductible. That means that most folks covered under that group policy aren't treating for "complicated illnesses or injuries.". They are incurring costs more typically for scrpts and more routine medical services. That's where the opportunities for medical consumers to get engaged truly are.
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Medical consumers having the opportunity to get engaged? What a bunch of horseshit phoney free marketer blubbering. The only medical consumers there outghta be are Medicare consumers. There shouldn't be any individual deductibles, or family deductibles or co-pays or prescription coverages or out of pocket costs for scripts. There shouldn't be any for-profit insurance companies involved. All medical provider groups and hospitals should be non-profit. Employment should have nothing to do with health care services.
The only way medical consumers should be getting engaged is that when they get sick or injured and require medical services they go get them and they're paid for out of tax revenues.
One of these days that's how it will be. And decades from now the people of this country will be looking back at how historically idiotic the people of this country were with their fucked up "health care" system. And those arguing as you do will be seen in the light of history as the most idiotic of all.
I probably won't live to see it, but I'm comforted by the knowledge that it's coming. It's coming just like voting rights for women was coming. Just like reproductive rights for women was coming. Just like universal marriage rights is in the process of coming (that one I will see in my lifetime).