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Afraid to Get Sick In America

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America's Stupid Health Care System, and why we need single payer care.

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Frankly I'm afraid to get sick in America. You never know what the insurance company will decide not to cover.

You would think that the corporate moguls making profits off of sick people would pay for vaccinations. Nope. Apparently that is not covered. I stupidly took my kid to a doctor instead of the public health clinic, and I wound up paying $600 out of pocket. You would think the CEOs over at the insurance companies would pay for physicals. THEY SAY THEY PAY FOR PHYSICALS!! Guess what? They refused. I was plugged $100 so my kid can get into sports. Why do I let them charge so much money when I can't even use the insurance?

I hate going to a doctor in America, because they are bound to order lots and lots of expensive useless tests, and since insurance companies are so unreliable, you never know which useless 10,000 dollar test you will have to pay for out of your pocket.

In Thailand or Japan you just went to the doctor, and they ran tests that were necessary. All were paid for. In America going to the doctor is like playing Russian roulette. You never know when the gun is going to go off.

I am nearly 50 years old and never go to a doctor or dentist. The last time I had my teeth cleaned, it had been twenty years. Lucky I'm healthy, but I need to start having physicals. I won't because of the insurance companies and their notorious lack of reliability.

 

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