What Its Like Living Without Health Insurance in America

[G_j]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-03/what-it-s-like-living-without-health-insurance-in-america

Forced to choose between paying bills and having health coverage, many Americans are risking it and going without.

By John Tozzi and Emma Ockerman
April 3, 2018, 4:00 AM E

Last week, Bloomberg News told the story of three families without health insurance. We also asked readers to share their own stories as we spend the next year following people who are “risking it.”

The response was overwhelming. More than 3,000 people from across the U.S. filled out our questionnaire and shared their challenges, and how their decisions have affected their health and financial well-being.

Some can’t afford to insure their children. Others are seeking cheaper care abroad. Some older adults are counting down the years until they qualify for Medicare.

While these people are among the 27 million Americans who remain uncovered despite the large expansion of health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, their stories transcend politics, reflecting tough kitchen-table decisions about health care faced by many families.

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[Lifelong Protester]

1. This shouldn't be happening in

this country!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Matthew 25.....

Bears reading again.

Republicans who say they follow the teachings of Jesus Christ are NOT what they seem to be when it comes to their votes and opposition to Healthcare for all.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Just ran into one of those stories yesterday.

Some one who we have knows for several years told us about what was happening in her own family. We had zero clue this was going on. Family Income and qualification for Health Insurance in the state of Utah leaves them in a blind spot. With deductibles that are 5k per person rather than per family unit,well that is massive with there Income.

With two of their family now needed Health Care for issues,they are strapped to know end. How many could afford a 10k hit? I do know there are tons more people in this same trap.

[kimbutgar]

4. A friend told me her Mother did not have health insurance

She was 75 and had been feeling poorly for weeks. Bedridden. She started bleeding vaginally and her husband finally took her to the emergency. She had ovarian cancer and died the next day. My friend never had a chance to say goodbye to her Mother.

And the Mother was a full blown twitler supporter who hated Obamacare.

[G_j]

5. That is really sad

and probably not atypical.

[dsc]

6. she didn't have Medicare?

If either she or her husband worked enough quarters she should have had Medicare.

[kimbutgar]

7. She didnt believe in government healthcare