Been that way for a while. When I was a kid I remember copays were $20 and almost everything was covered under good insurance. Now I pay close to $1000 a month and still have massive out of pocket costs and deductible. The bulk of my debt is medical and is only mounting.
The US healthcare system is broken.
It wasn’t as good as you remember as a kid. Back then, people would get denied insurance coverage for “prior conditions”. This basically meant that once you developed some sort of health condition, if you ever wanted it to be covered by health insurance again, you needed to stick with your current plan and never, ever switch or have it changed by your employer.
Been that way for a while. When I was a kid I remember copays were $20 and almost everything was covered under good insurance. Now I pay close to $1000 a month and still have massive out of pocket costs and deductible. The bulk of my debt is medical and is only mounting. The US healthcare system is broken.
we pay for health insurance, not health care
Its almost more like “health assurance” which is bullshit. Like, ya, we totes gotchu covered 🤙
It wasn’t as good as you remember as a kid. Back then, people would get denied insurance coverage for “prior conditions”. This basically meant that once you developed some sort of health condition, if you ever wanted it to be covered by health insurance again, you needed to stick with your current plan and never, ever switch or have it changed by your employer.