Was in US for 2 months. Ended up spending $5,000 on healthcare including two months of insurance for $495 each month (got a $150 rebate at end of year).
God damned joke.
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HOLY COW.
That is a lot of money.
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lol i love foreign reactions to healthcare
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To put it in context that’s about how much my employer pays PER YEAR to give me private medical insurance over and above what the NHS provides
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Yep that is roughly how much KPMG spent on outstanding health insurance that covered pre-existing conditions* (over and above the NHS).
*Didn’t cover chronic conditions.
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Incidentally when I tried to get the same cover for myself it would have cost £4k per year with AXA, and I decided I would be better off just putting money into a savings account and self-paying for the occasional knee related thing I would need.
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yeah at least in europe hospitals and doctors have an actual price.
in the US doctors can't tell you the price because its a game through insurance companies
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Wait what? So if you self pay you don’t know how much you’ll be paying?
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only if you negotiate up front and you need to be aggressive. otherwise you may or may not have services covered and at an unknown % reimbursement until after insurance. then if it gets submitted to insurance they jack up the price which then gets negotiated down sometimes
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What kind of a shitty pathetic consumer hating ‘service’ is that?
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it’s american healthcare baybee
This sounds awful and dystopian
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