And because babies need checkups and our toddler gets sick sometimes we keep adding $200-400 to the bill every month so we’re paying $900 a month in back bills plus $200-400 additional for ongoing expenses.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @MarsDorian
Plus they lock your account if you owe over a certain amount even if you’re making payments. So if I get sick I can’t really afford to go get checked out or it locks our whole family down with no treatment.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @MarsDorian
Unfortunately this is the price I pay for working my family up out of poverty. If we’d stayed in poverty and not worked so hard then the taxpayers would cover all of our bills and we’d have no payments and no monthly fees.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @MarsDorian
After medical expenses and monthly insurance premiums we’re probably back in poverty, to be honest.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
I'm impressed by your commitment and hard work. Our model is way different from yours as we have mandatory state insurance, which to you probably sounds like a socialist hell but is a blessing for folks with prexisting conditions.
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Replying to @MarsDorian
Right, the fear is another incident like Alfie Evans and that becoming normal, the state controlling life and death.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
Every modern and capitalist country has a functioning state insurance though. South Korea, Canada, Australia, Western Europe. They all have strong economies and strong health care. Our taxes are higher, but we don't go into debt or even bankrupt because of medical fees.
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Replying to @MarsDorian
Most Americans also have a deep and abiding fear of concentrating power into the hands of a centralized government, and for good reason.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
I've learned about that during my highschool year in the Southern Colorado. As a European, I think differently about healthcare issues but I understand your sentiments. I'm curious if the stance will ever change in the US. The East and West Coast especially think more like 'us'.
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Replying to @MarsDorian @TheBrometheus
Unlikely. If anything, the line has hardened, b/c: 1. Obamacare hurt a lot of people. 2. the American left pursues health care as a moral crusade rather than offering practical, affordable, proposals.
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I’m actually considered a right-wing extremist for sharing the financial damage this has done to my family.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @MarsDorian
Same here. My total O&A cash outlay for Obamacare-mandated deductibles is $48K and rising. That includes my entire 401k (tax hit: >10k not included) and the full profits from the sale of a house. Even people who know me IRL try to diminish this.
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