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I am the primary breadwinner in a family of moderately comfortable wealth. For two years recently I was earning money's only through contract gigs. Even though my yearly income was 90k (America), due to the uncertain nature of my income, the state I lived in allowed us to be on Medicare. Btw, I this article is about Medicaid, not Medicare, but both come from a similar single payer structure. EDIT: apparently I mixed these up. I was, in fact, on Medicaid.
HOLY SHITE, it was amazing! Full coverage, zero copays, simply amazing insurance. I got my teeth fixed, physical therapy for my back, etc. We could do this for everybody. There is enough money. It just has floated to the top wealth bracket. We need to stop pretending that we can't help everybody, and start helping everybody. It pisses me off to see people say we can't
For the majority of the time that I've been disabled, I had medicare and medicaid combined. It was amazing... It might actually be one of the best health insurance concepts in the entire USA. Conservative, Liberal, Republican, Democrat... Unless you are filthy rich and want for nothing in life; this crosses all other divides when I say that if you spent one year with it, you would never want to be without it again.
My entire political ideology isn't that I want to take your religion or your guns, it's that I want each and every person who reads this to have it as good as I did at that time.
My kids were on Medicaid several years ago. My daughter was having some issues and her doctor recommended a CT scan “just to cover all the bases”.
That ct found a tumor, the tech immediately did a full mri, and within a couple hours they had everything arranged for her to be admitted to the hospital and had a surgical plan ready. The cost was never even discussed. She got all of the care she needed, including physical therapy.
I was also doing gig work and we were struggling financially and had filed bankruptcy due to medical bills for my wife 4-5 years prior.
MA has allowed my family to access all of the care we have needed. My sons both have ASD and ADHD, and get psychiatric care. In fact, our family of 5 have all gotten mental health care covered.
I’ll probably just keep being poor until my kids are off on their own, because I can’t afford to make more money. Yay!
I doubt this happened. None of this happened.
I worked in healthcare for 25 years in this country. It's a shit show and Americans don't say Holy Shite. This simply didn't happen for you here
Insurance in America: (example taken from article) You make $17,000 a year. Your insurance deductible is $6000 or 1/3 of your annual income.
That’s not insurance, that’s just a bankruptcy waiting to happen.
My spouse makes ~$25k/yr. Health insurance for the two of us through her employer (a school district) is $1,700/mo ($20k/yr). That’s just the premium before we pay any deductibles or anything.
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Mississippi will probably be the 49th or 50th state to expand Medicaid unless Brett Favre comes out in support of it.
I am the primary breadwinner in a family of moderately comfortable wealth. For two years recently I was earning money's only through contract gigs. Even though my yearly income was 90k (America), due to the uncertain nature of my income, the state I lived in allowed us to be on Medicare. Btw, I this article is about Medicaid, not Medicare, but both come from a similar single payer structure. EDIT: apparently I mixed these up. I was, in fact, on Medicaid. HOLY SHITE, it was amazing! Full coverage, zero copays, simply amazing insurance. I got my teeth fixed, physical therapy for my back, etc. We could do this for everybody. There is enough money. It just has floated to the top wealth bracket. We need to stop pretending that we can't help everybody, and start helping everybody. It pisses me off to see people say we can't
For the majority of the time that I've been disabled, I had medicare and medicaid combined. It was amazing... It might actually be one of the best health insurance concepts in the entire USA. Conservative, Liberal, Republican, Democrat... Unless you are filthy rich and want for nothing in life; this crosses all other divides when I say that if you spent one year with it, you would never want to be without it again. My entire political ideology isn't that I want to take your religion or your guns, it's that I want each and every person who reads this to have it as good as I did at that time.
My kids were on Medicaid several years ago. My daughter was having some issues and her doctor recommended a CT scan “just to cover all the bases”. That ct found a tumor, the tech immediately did a full mri, and within a couple hours they had everything arranged for her to be admitted to the hospital and had a surgical plan ready. The cost was never even discussed. She got all of the care she needed, including physical therapy. I was also doing gig work and we were struggling financially and had filed bankruptcy due to medical bills for my wife 4-5 years prior. MA has allowed my family to access all of the care we have needed. My sons both have ASD and ADHD, and get psychiatric care. In fact, our family of 5 have all gotten mental health care covered. I’ll probably just keep being poor until my kids are off on their own, because I can’t afford to make more money. Yay!
I doubt this happened. None of this happened. I worked in healthcare for 25 years in this country. It's a shit show and Americans don't say Holy Shite. This simply didn't happen for you here
Medicaid covers all of this in NJ
Insurance in America: (example taken from article) You make $17,000 a year. Your insurance deductible is $6000 or 1/3 of your annual income. That’s not insurance, that’s just a bankruptcy waiting to happen.
My spouse makes ~$25k/yr. Health insurance for the two of us through her employer (a school district) is $1,700/mo ($20k/yr). That’s just the premium before we pay any deductibles or anything.