Current Events > Why is the healthcare system privatized in the US? 1 stay at the hospital 13k

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As someone with a chronic illness that have consistently gone to hospitals for decades, Ive found the bills dont mean much. I must have hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt, never paid a cent, the hospital still sees me. Though granted I had insurance that pays 80% of the bill, the debt comes from the remaining 20%, which still adds up to hundreds of thousands. Maybe it wouldve been different if I had no insurance, but I have never been denied treatment for not paying

Have you been reported to collections? What happens if one of my family member gets hospitalized and ends up dying (god forbid) but they have no insurance? Will the debt clear or will it get passed on to the next of KIN? It's so infuriating. I worry about this kind of stuff and gives me so much anxiety.

Have you been reported to collections? What happens if one of my family member gets hospitalized and ends up dying (god forbid) but they have no insurance? Will the debt clear or will it get passed on to the next of KIN? It's so infuriating. I worry about this kind of stuff and gives me so much anxiety.

I'm confused here, you were involuntarily commited based on something you said online? How did they know who you are, or where you live?

Do you not have health insurance TC?

Apparently someone from a different state reported it to the police. That state then pinged the IP and reported me to a local cop who came banging on my door. Next time I'll use a VPN when I go off on a diatribe on a discord chat.

I don't know whether to be upset, or happy that the state would go through the trouble to to track someone down because a person reported that they suspect someone online might be suicidal.

Right? I'd be conflicted too. Why waste your time on some guy trying to blow off steam on an anonymous chat server, when there are more serious things that require immediate attention happening around the country. My suspicious thought process leads me to believe, this is some conspiracy to gain further profit by committing people into mental hospitals. Hospitals win, insurance companies win, the cop that reported probably gets some type of positive recognition, and the only people left holding the negative bag are those that are poorly uninsured living a life of basic means. The US is just one big humanitarian crises ready to implode in the next 100 years.

About 50,000 people die in the US every year from suicide, over a million people attempt it every year. Suicide prevention is taken very serious, better to investigate warning signs instead of ignore them.

Or you can go the Alex Jones route and believe the whole system is conspiring against you

About 50,000 people die in the US every year from suicide, over a million people attempt it every year. Suicide prevention is taken very serious, better to investigate warning signs instead of ignore them.

Or you can go the Alex Jones route and believe the whole system is conspiring against you

About 50,000 people die in the US every year from suicide, over a million people attempt it every year.

Suicide prevention is taken very serious, better to investigate warning signs instead of ignore them.

Because a significant part of that $13k goes into a very rich man's pocket, and he is allowed to give as much of that as he wants to the people who decide whether or not healthcare stays privatized or not.

Sorry you had to go through that TC

Don't be sorry for me, it just sounds patronizing. Be sorry for the people that are going through similar feelings without much of a support system. I can't help but feel most sympathetic for the hardworking single mother that works 3 jobs but can't afford to pay her hospital deductibles because she has shitty insurance. There are so many friggen Americans that are going through a similar crisis with no solution to their problems.

You can just take the empathy from another human being without typing all this out

Because the American government let itself be compromised by rich and greedy corporations.

b'awwwwww

Capitalism and greed.

Solar_Crimson posted...
Because the American government let itself be compromised by rich and greedy corporations.

And nearly half the population literally think the idea of universal healthcare is blasphemy because they're literally that stupid and indoctrinated by republican ideology.

And nearly half the population literally think the idea of universal healthcare is blasphemy because they're literally that stupid and indoctrinated by republican ideology.