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[–] 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Soul leaving your body? That's gonna be a costly medical bill.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    If it went from $40 to $80 it wouldn't be such a big deal. But it's going from studio rent territory to house mortgage!

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    What's the price approximately?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Depends on location, age, and smoking status, and very much so. But a single person can easily pay way more than $1000 a month.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Wow, that is quite expensive. How would the insurance know whether you smoke or not?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    You have to declare it before starting coverage, and if they find proof that you ever smoked, you lose insurance coverage retroactively. It's the best of all worlds for the insurance company: they get your money until you are sick, and then they get to spend as much time as they like trying to figure out when and where you didn't tell the truth. The lie doesn't even have to be related to the health condition, at all.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    It's also a picture of your soul leaving your body when can't pay those medical bills so you've died.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Mine didn't go up at all... because I moved to the Netherlands this year, where this is a sane medical system. Not perfect, but sane.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    "Get back in here ya jerk... I can't afford this right now."

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I think.the US healthcare system is gonna end up collapsing from this. There will be a death spiral

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