Anonymous #1 10w

Those fuckers should be in prison for making decisions for people they know NOTHING about. I’m so sorry that happened to you— I hope you haven’t had any issue since!

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Anonymous #2 10w

Have*

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Anonymous virgosgroove 10w

I hope they trip and eat dog shit before going into work for doing that to you.

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Anonymous virgosgroove 10w

I got institutionalized for attempting suicide and my insurance refused to cover it (almost $10,000) because they deemed it “not necessary“. I’m very thankful that the hospital I was at fought against that claim, so the insurance ended up covering it

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Anonymous #4 10w

It’s already very long here AND has the insurmountable cost for many.

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Anonymous OP 10w

long here sometimes but also longer everywhere else

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Anonymous #4 10w

Our wait times for elective surgeries may not be the longest but our waits to meet with primary physicians is longer than most of Europe or Australia. We’re not as far ahead as we like to pretend.

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Anonymous #1 10w

This exact thing happened to me early last year. I had three grandmal seizures back to back after being off my meds for a week and ended up in the hospital and unconscious for over 15 hours.

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Anonymous #2 10w

life insurance isn’t for you though, it’s for the people you leave behind. I don’t see anything wrong with that…

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Anonymous #9 10w

Correct! This is just for health insurance which is absolute bullshit.

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Anonymous #4 10w

Wait times in the US are as long or longer than other countries. I had a head injury with a brain bleed and the neurologist couldn’t get me in for five months. My new rheumatologist is booking 13 months out. PCPs in my state keep moving to concierge medicine. We currently have about 1 PCP for every 1,700 people and the waitlists are years long.

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Anonymous #11 10w

Just bc the “world” “works” like that doesn’t make it right

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Um okay

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Anonymous #11 10w

Being jerry-rigged doesn’t mean it’s great. It cannot and will not last like this.

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Anonymous #2 10w

I’m not saying the unaffordable prices are not insane and ridiculous and shouldn’t be fixed. I absolutely think insurance companies are price gouging us solely for their benefit. But nothing comes free or super cheap and maintains its quality.

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Anonymous #11 10w

Well, healthcare is one of those things that should never be for-profit. In any universe. Ever. Because that’s fucking cruel and leads to more harm.

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Anonymous #10 10w

Yeah I have to go see an immunologist and get allergy tested because I’m literally having allergic reactions to WATER and none of the ones in my area are accepting new patients or have any appointments for 7 months. 7. Months. I can’t wait that long.

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Anonymous #11 10w

Nothing comes for free yet we lived for 1000s and 1000s of years without the advent of money

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Anonymous OP 10w

How do you expect healthcare systems to operate without being paid?? You want the gov to pay for it all too? Or you want to raise taxes? We’re alr being nickel and dime-d by taxes and the debt ceiling is astronomical. So pls tell me where the money should come from.

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Anonymous #2 10w

And with the current monetary systems we have now, taxes could absolutely support healthcare in abundance. Y’know, if the billionaires and corporations would actually be fucking taxed how they should be.

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Anonymous #11 10w

I just did. We have the solution, it’s quite simple.

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Anonymous #12 10w

Also that’s just for a consultation. That is not for the actual tests or anything that they will order or have me try. There’s a very real possibility I won’t have any answers or tests done for close to a year so whenever anyone brings that up I get so frustrated because this won’t even be free like you said. I will have to wait a year and still pay money for it so like maybe we should fix one of these things.

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Anonymous #13 10w

Feels like you almost have to be to so carelessly juggle people’s lives.

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Anonymous OP 10w

This is how Canada pays for it, besides have you seen the amount of money the US pours into bombing children in Iran? If we that money towards something actually useful that helped US citizens the world would be much better. Only thing I’m worried about is the amount of people who work in insurance that would lose their job. CEO’s I don’t care about, I’m referring to regular people

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Anonymous #14 10w

Take more of the funding from that and the constant funnelling of billions to “israel” and generative AI and use it for education, more people would pursue degrees and would be able to find other jobs, like healthcare so wait times shorten.

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Oh, you mean the unwanted business held up solely by investors and nobody else? Don’t worry, it won’t last. Neither will the colony terrorising the Levant.

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Anonymous #10 10w

Per Peterson KFF, the US spends $14,775 per person but the average for comparable wealthy nations is $7,860 per person. (2)

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Anonymous #10 10w

US national average wait is 31 days but is trending upwards. That number is heavily skewed by a couple fast moving markets and is much longer in other markets. In Boston, for example, the average wait time across specialties is 67 days, and wait times for certain specialties like dermatology or gastroenterology are frequently 200 to 290 days. The median wait time to see a specialist across all provinces in Canada is around 70-80 days. (3)

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Anonymous #10 10w

Sources 1. The Commonwealth Fund Report Blumenthal D, Gumas ED, Shah A, Gunja MZ, Williams RD II. Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Health System. The Commonwealth Fund; September 19, 2024. https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2024/sep/mirror-mirror-2024

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Anonymous #10 10w

2. Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker Chart Collection Wager E, Ortaliza J, Cox C. How does health spending in the U.S. compare to other countries? Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker. Published December 5, 2024. https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/

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Anonymous #10 10w

3. AMN Healthcare White Paper AMN Healthcare. 2025 Physician Appointment Wait Times and Graduate Medical Education Survey. AMN Healthcare; 2025. https://www.amnhealthcare.com/siteassets/amn-insights/physician/ps-2025-physician-appt-wait-times---wp-v6.pdf

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Anonymous #12 10w

Very similar to what I’m seeing. I needed patch testing and my derm office doesn’t do that. I called three offices that do and wait times were 3, 7, and 8 months.

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Anonymous #4 10w

Might be long but for people there but here those who can’t afford it they suffer and never get treatment. I rather long than never at all….

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Anonymous #11 10w

Tell me you don’t work in the medical field and don’t see how insurance actually operates without telling me.

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Anonymous #1 10w

Medical decisions should be made by patient and doctor. Insurance companies should not be allowed to dictate care

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Anonymous #2 10w

What was their reason for denial? It’s not like you can choose when to leave at one of those places

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Anonymous #4 10w

In the us it takes on average 3 months to make an appointment with an obgyn. Months to make an appointment with a surgeon, MONTHS to a rheumatologist. 6 months for s urologist. Then you spend $100,000. If I didn’t have insurance id be wheelchair bound, id rather an extra month wait than being riddled with debt or permanently disabled.

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Anonymous #11 10w

Tell me you think America is the whole world without telling me you think America is the whole world

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Anonymous #10 10w

As I know of they didn’t give me a reason other than it was “not necessary”. But the hospital I was at ended up contacting anthem blue cross and blue shield of New Hampshire (my insurance at the time) and telling them that this was indeed necessary so then at that point they couldn’t deny it. But the fact that they denied in the first place deeming it “unnecessary” is crazy.

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Anonymous OP 10w

yep. he was the worst. fucked over his ex-wife and would have fleeced my friend’s mom if she wasn’t so smart with her assets and the prenup

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Anonymous #18 10w

W LUIGI

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Anonymous #9 10w

You shouldn’t have to insure your life

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I never said you did 😭😭😭? Just the concept of it is weird

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It’s weird that they’d be screwed if you pass away if you don’t have insurance. Why is that so hard to understand

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If you can’t see anything wrong with the fact that your family would be screwed if you didn’t insure your own life then you might be clueless

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Yeah you’re braindead. Funerals and other postmortem services shouldn’t be so expensive that it ends up being a burden on your family if you don’t get insurance.

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One of the functions of life insurance is to help your family pay for postmortem services. Which shouldn’t have to happen, you shouldn’t have to get life insurance to keep you family afloat either. Why is that so hard to understand

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Anonymous #2 10w

It sounds like you have an issue with postmortem service more than life insurance. So life insurance is when you have a job, and this job pays you your income and also offers you life insurance, and let’s say you have three family members that don’t have jobs and you pay for their housing and food and life. And then you die, your three family members have no income no job, but you died so they got a sum of money and then they use that money while they recoup and get their bearings after you pass

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Anonymous #21 10w

And that still shouldn’t have to be a thing. Housing, food, healthcare, and education need to be accessible to everyone regardless of employment or ability.

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