First of all, I am glad you do not have breast cancer.
In the Netherlands…Every year or two a buss comes to our village where one can get tested for breast cancer.for free.
I’m supposed to have a colonoscopy because of my celiac
This is why I don’t
Go, get your healthcare, ignore the bills.
Goddamn… as a fellow celiac sufferer, I’m very sorry to hear that. If the blood tests are pretty conclusive, you can probably assume it’s celiac without the colonoscopy. The downside is that if you start a gluten-free diet now and decide to get a colonoscopy later, it might now show anything since you’re off the gluten. Best of luck!
Oh I’ve had the diagnosis for a few years, and I’ve totally adhered to the dietary restrictions I was given. If I so much as question whether cross contamination may have taken place, I don’t eat the food.
I’m pretty well stable now and no longer shitting myself. But I know I’m at greater risk of things like colon cancer, which is something that my family has a history of.
My insurance would “cover” it in that it would go towards my deductible, but that’s still thousands of dollars, and we had to buy a furnace this year because ours died. I’m thinking about going and having it done in Mexico. I have in-laws there.
My wife has a chronic illness with expensive drugs.
Healthcare is around 35% of our families gross income when you include in the cost my employer pays, what I pay, plus deductable and copays.
I avoid going to the Dr as much as possible because I have a separate deductible. If I went for everything I should it would be closer to 40% of our gross income.
That country is fucked up. You people really have to come together and demand universal healthcare, as impossible as that sounds.
We elected Obama on that promise and our reward was the current system 🫠
Obama improved a lot through Obamacare, but it’s really hard to get a good system in the USA as a lot of people are strongly against free and universal health care, even though it’d likely decrease the amount they have to pay for their own health care too. I really don’t understand it.
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I’ve got to be honest, as a fellow American with chronic health problems, that seems dirt cheap for a diagnosis.
Anything above zero for cancer checkups seems way too high for me, from Spain.
You still are paying for it but its taxes I stead of insurance
That’s why it’s cheaper though, and why you also don’t go broke if you’re poor and have health issues.
Per capita, American spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world, and that’s including all the people that leave things untreated because they can’t afford treatment. It’s not more expensive because the care is necessarily better than other countries; it’s more expensive mostly because of a lot of overheads in the US system. Paying for basic health care as part of taxes usually also means that it’s a single-payer system, meaning the government negotiates pricing for the entire country, rather than having lots of insurance companies that each do that separately (usually including a healthy profit margin for themselves). That’s one reason why medicines are so much cheaper in other countries.
The problem is that Americans pay both taxes and these outrageous rates for medical. People throw around the oh it’s just in your taxes as if Americans don’t also pay taxes. Ours just get wasted on useless fucking defense contracts
But not actually defending anyone
But they’re very important, so people are more likely to pay for them. America! Lol
As a Canadian it’s horrifying.
I guess it’s a good investment to have peace of mind! /s
I had a $3000 bill for something similar and let it go to collections 2 years ago. I’m not fucking paying that. I just keep contesting the charges and it hasn’t yet hit my credit. I imagine it will catch up with me eventually though.
After 7 years it’s irrelevant
You can’t just drop that without details. Plan name. State. Monthly premium. Obamacare subsidy or no.
Yeah, I wonder, too. I’ve done the same for $15 copay through Kaiser (individual, marketplace) and Blue cross (employer).
Ignore it. Throw it away. They already billed your insurance ten times that much, they made their money .
That’s a good way to get the bill sent to collections and have debt collectors ruin your credit score. Real life isn’t as simple as just ignoring your bills.
Credit is an unnecessary yoke of capitalism
Land of the fee.
In Sweden there is no cost for this whatsoever. Most things are free or have tiny bills. I’m not saying it to make you feel worse, just pointing out that America is bordering on not being a civilized country anymore.
As a bonus, we don’t have any Musks here.
As a bonus, we don’t have any Musks here.
Don’t we? The “IF Metall” union would probably tell you otherwise
I mean, who are we talking about? I admit I don’t follow news much but which Swedish guy is rich like Musk? I know we have wealthy bank families and so on of course, or Axfood etc.
Fisk is talking about the Musk. He’s there, trying to eat your labor rights.
Ah yes. But he didn’t succeed. :)
we dont know that yet, its still ongoing
Mom died of breast cancer. On my bd last month.
She felt a lump, didn’t get it checked, figured it was a bit of fake titty that broke loose. Would have cost too much to get looked at.
Found she had breast cancer. Her chemo stent got infected, wanted to wait until Monday to have it seen. Would have cost too much.
Husband drove her 2-hours through 14° weather, snow and mountains and all, to the ER. Dead within 24 hours.
But hey! Another dead conservative Boomer! Win?
There’s absolutely no win there. I have a similar experience just before COVID, and the only saving grace was all his treatment - and the cost when he chose plan B - were both readily available and both cost-free.
It’s unmitigated cruelty that you need to grieve while dealing with that healthcare system; and second-guess with the what-if thoughts as well.
We tell the stories of the people we lost in COVID, and it helps to laugh together, and I hope you have a similar outlet to make room for some peace eventually.
I’m so used to it, I was expecting more. “that’s it?” - i thought to myself, in this boring dystopia.
I have never seen charges like this for breast imaging under insurance before. Something is wrong, either billing or the insurance. The only way I can see this if the imaging was ordered without a proper reason…but likely not.
You seem oblivious to the realities of most insurance plans in the US.
I’m having a tooth extraction at an oral surgeon later this month and I just found out I’m paying $450 for it. If there’s a complication it’ll be $1100. I also have insurance.
Since September my wife has had about ten CTs, three MRIs, two major surgeries (the last one 7 hours long), one emergency surgery, weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatments and about 8 weeks hospitalised including some time in the ICU.
Total cost: $0
Unless you count the cost of parking when I visit her in hospital, in which case I’ve spent about $170 USD
This is in New Zealand with a publicly funded health system.
Man what the hell is your wife going through…
A cancer diagnosis and complications from chemotherapy. It’s been rough on her but she’s an absolute trooper.
America is well overdue for a revolution.
the idea of a revolution is dead. there’s no way people are going to keep their digital limb aside for a moment to think that they are getting scammed by corporations everyday.
we’re frogs in the boiling waterThe “frogs in water slowly brought to a boil” meme is totally false. The frogs jump out when the water gets too hot for them, which is long before it’s boiling. Just saying ;)
thank you for the heads up, dark grey colour(or is f4 some musical note?).
All I can say is that there was once some site where I had great difficulty finding a valid username that wasn’t already taken, and this name worked.
