Like the rest of the world? That's unpossible!

but we'd lose so many useless jobs if that happened. Think of the jobs more than people getting screwed over by terrible health insurance companies - - dems when asked why they're against universal healthcare/implementation of modern systems

Insurance better watch out.

Increasingly this is the decision people (especially the young) are making. So now you have less people paying into insurance. Raising the cost for those with it. So more people drop their insurance. But insurance execs and politicians are fine letting things snowball in the name of greed.

If you are young and fairly healthy, look into high deductible plans. Those should be significantly cheaper but won't cover any routine health services at all. You'll pay out of pocket for those (possibly at a much lower cash rate depending on provider). Then plan will, however, cover you if something catastrophic happens which requires expensive care.

How much do and what percentage of revenue do they spend on marketing (and other bullshit) vs cost of care?

My end game is getting healthcare in other countries via medical tourism or Permanent Residency/Citizenship to escape the broken US system. I hit my dental plan maximum coverage in April this year. So even though I have coverage through my employer they are stingy with high copays and low maximums.

And shopping around trying to get a quote for health insurance without an employer to sponsor, it was like a 2nd mortgage/2nd rent payment.

Long term it'll be cheaper to buy global (ex-US) health insurance and fly abroad for care.

Yes, they want robots and ai which they can control, so they don't need the proles anymore

Yes. There's too many poors and you're wasting precious everything.

There ain't a soul on earth that doesnt deserve health care.

They try so hard to keep us down with relentless fascist propaganda that said "nothing you do is worth it" "you're the only one that feels this way" "both sides, so why bother" etc etc etc etc

It takes enough of us to get up and change the system. Hell, if all of the people who sit on the sidelines just voted, we could have supermajorities - of course, have to then fix the problem of the oligarchs, who control centrist Dems along with Republicans, but it's a battle we could actually fight.

The main thing that you can actually do is support when good things happen - like this recent surge of DSA. DSA might not be the perfect answer, but it's a pretty progressive thing.

The most important thing is to not give up - and the VERY most important thing is to do your best to live your life as best as you can, meaning taking care of yourself as best as you can. This is the only life we get, and that sucks. But there is only so much one human can do. If it all feels overwhelming, just remember to balance the outrage and depression with just making it through the day. <3

I'm with you, mind: I'm started dialysis in my 40s, have had seven heart attacks, below-knee amputation..... and it's because my ADHD wasn't diagnosed until age 30 so when I got diabetes around that time, I had no insurance and was unmanaged for a decade. So my life is going to be a couple of decades shorter, and I'll be surprised to see my 60th birthday in a few years. Fuck fascists for taking that from me and making my life hell. But on a day-to-day basis I try to find joy where I can, make people laugh, make the world a very very slightly better place in the little way that I can. So: Take care of yourself.

well I'll take two then!

It is truly a measure of how right-wing the US actually is, frustratingly. And how good (or at least pervasive) the fucking fascist propaganda for decades has been.

I pay over $200 a week for my wife and myself. Employer supposedly pays even more. Just got an X-ray. Hospital couldn't even give me an estimate before I got it done as to the cost. Thinking it'd be a $40 copay or something, went ahead. Get a bill for $340. At bare minimum, we need to be able to know how much service will cost so we can at least make an informed decision. Realistically the entire system should be demolished, but the only way that's ever happening is if we get a few hundred or thousand more Luigi's.

I'm alive thanks to my wife keeping her job at a place known for people working there because the insurance is pretty good.

Yep. If I recall, it was a lagged part of the ‘BBB’ set to end subsidies and spike prices right after midterm elections so thuh demms get blamed

the tldr of american propaganda -- minimize it, not censor it.