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✖ Don’t get sick in America
It was a rough night. According to my Apple Watch I only got 4-1/2 hours of sleep. I think I kept touching my eye or rolling on it which woke me up.
And when my alarm went off this morning, I was in quite a lot of pain. It feels like I've been punched in the eye. Except I wasn't. My doctor had to press on my eye hard enough to squeeze the liquid out from under my first surgery so he could try and better contain the tear on my retina so it doesn't spread and detach. A half hour of somebody poking your eye out don't feel great once the anesthesia they shoot into it wears off.
My cats must have sensed something was wrong, because I found them next to me whenever I woke up...
BUT THAT WASN'T ALL THE PAIN I GOT THIS MORNING!
This was waiting for me in my email in-box...
This is “health insurance” in America.
One health problem has me hitting 75% of my full-price, high deductible... and this doesn’t even include my much more intensive second surgery yet.
The cost for all this will be thousands upon thousands of dollars. It will easily wipe out my health savings account and likely wipe out my regular savings as well. And this is for one eye. Can you imagine if it were something far worse?
I’m just thankful that I have savings to draw from. And, believe it or not, I consider myself lucky to have insurance... because I might not have even been able to afford to go to the doctor in the first place if I didn’t.
Americans are paying thousands upon thousands of dollars for insurance which results in thousands upon thousands of dollars in medical bills.
This is fucking insanity.
Yet politicians who were bought by the insurance lobby tell us we have the best health care in the world.
Why aren’t Americans sick of this fucking scam yet?
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