We don’t have a healthcare system in the US, we have an insurance racket.

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        My insurance company constantly tries to push me to use them, but they are so unreliable and difficult to work with. I refuse to use them again. They email me every time I pick up a prescription from a real pharmacy and I report it as spam every time.

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          All my prescriptions have to go through them as part of some sort of “fuck you, whatcha gonna do about it, drop dead?” process, though I technically still do get to use my choice of pharmacy in the end.

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          My previous insurance just wouldn’t cover any long-term prescriptions if I didn’t fill it through Caremark on a 90-day supply. It was so annoying to deal with them. My regular pharmacy is two blocks away, if there’s an issue with insurance or something, they give me a call and have generally been pro-active. Caremark would just sit on their hands until I realized it was weird I hadn’t gotten a shipping notification, only to go “Oh, yeah, when we got this prescription we specifically requested you send through us, we decided there wasn’t enough info to determine if you need it, so you need to call your doctor and tell them to call us.”

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    Russia has universal healthcare. Russia. Wtf America? Why aren’t you on the streets demanding it as hard as you demand things for people in other countries?

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    As someone who has lived in Europe for many years, the healthcare system is one of my least favorite things about the US. Absolute trash. But many people keep voting for candidates who don’t want change, so no change it is.

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      But many people keep voting for candidates who don’t want change, so no change it is.

      Candidates who want change are rare.

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      It’s weird because most hate it. I remember when Michael Moore’s movie came out and even those in red states were gathering together to say that if we let this go on then we’re complicit!

      Then I think I remember Fox News and the right-wing going on a blitz. “Death Panels” and shit

      https://youtu.be/JPa19PgTxZc?si=_M9f1k4noEEr0XJN

      Look at this disinformation campaign. This is what pisses me off about this “both sides” bullshit. Also, whenever any comedian jerks themselves off about speaking the truth and being philosophers going off on woke when they shut their mouths about shit like this.

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    I made about $3,000 more last year than the year before, so now I have a little under 30 days to use literally all the healthcare related things I can before I lose government insurance.

    My yearly medical costs are higher than $3,000 but not enough to justify getting insurance.

    So now I get to lose money because I made more money, Unlike all those fuckwads who blather on about how they’re paying more in taxes now than their raise was…