• Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    I’m not a person who does protest but I would march for changes to our medical system. While I’ve had a positive experience, the stories I’m hearing are mind blowing. It’s beyond absurd. Even if 90% of them were false. It’s still too many horrible stories but I suspect they are mostly true.

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      15 hours ago

      Mostly the same. My biggest headache has been some of my dependents have secondary insurance and no matter which company I’ve been with at the time, they always assume all of the do and will forget multiple times a year which are which and deny all of them claims until I talk to them because there are of course no self serve options there.

      I also care for a child who is on medicaid, never any problems there. All the scary news on how I shouldn’t be able to find providers has never been an issue and they are many medical conditions.

      Those are the stories I call bullshit on. They want us to be afraid of single payer so they over emphasize lack of care while ignoring the people who directly pay and actually lack care.

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        14 hours ago

        I always assumed that everyone’s experience was similar to mine. That’s why these stories have been mind blowing.

        I needed a PA for a very expensive mediation that most insurances deny. Uhc did deny it but then called the provider and walked them through the forms to get it covered. All in the same day.

        Yet you read about them deny cancer medication.

        I support a dual system where everyone has coverage but people can have private as well. That’s the Australian model. I think that would be easier to pass in America.

        All I know is this drew the average person to speak out against our medical system.

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          I don’t know of any nation that has single-payer that doesn’t also have private available. I’m not well-travelled so I don’t really know.

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      16 hours ago

      While I’ve had a positive experience

      Let me guess, still on parents insurance or never had insurance through an employer?

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        16 hours ago

        I’m 51. I’ve always had health insurance through my employer. Never an issue. Most of my career has been in tech companies where the insurance is much better than the average company I’ve discovered.

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          15 hours ago

          I’m only a few years younger and have pretty much always had shitty/non-existent insurance until the last decade.

          Without revealing too much about myself, my employer just switched their provider to UHC this year so you can imagine I’m watching all this intently.

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            15 hours ago

            I’ve had nothing but positive experiences with them and I’ve had them on and off for thirty years.

            That said, I think it’s because tech has better insurance than I realized. Many of the stories coming out are from uhc and I believe them