If you enjoy paying multi-thousand dollar health insurance deductibles

[gyroscope]

and co-pays, then you know who to vote for.
(hint: the candidate who takes millions from the insurance and pharma lobby)

Many with insurance end up not going to get care because they can't afford the outrageous deductibles,
and their condition gets worse. What a great scam for the insurance companies.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. What I don't like is doctors who choose to refuse to have you as a client based on the

type or source of the healthcare payments they receive for treating you. If we had single payer, that sort of discrimination couldn't exist.

[leveymg]

3. Not sure that is the case even in the UK and Canada.

Under the impression there are MDs with purely private practices. Anyone know?

[gyroscope]

5. Worse

is when hospitals charge you the full price when it is out of network and your insurance doesn't cover it.
But in an emergency you don't have a choice but to be treated there. You think you are covered but you are not and get a surprise when the hospital sends you the full bill. A problem especially when traveling.

[CrispyQ]

7. Remember, Michael Moore's movie "Sicko"

was about people with insurance, not without it.

The 'health' insurance companies are predatory evil fucks.

[gyroscope]

9. The release of Sicko

lead to the big public debate about healthcare, especially during the 2008 presidential debates.

without Sicko we wouldn't even have the ACA today as bad as it is.

[CrispyQ]

13. I feel the same way about his movie Fahrenheit 9-11.

It opened people's eyes to the Bush administration. How it was a farce from the beginning with the SCOTUS decision up to the Iraq war vote. That scene where Bush is joking about finding WMD. People finally started to see how they'd been fleeced.

[LWolf]

2. I've been saying this for many years.

I have supposedly good insurance. By the time the premiums are paid, there's nothing left for copays and deductibles, which have gotten higher every single year, including under the ACA.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

4. This.

The amount of stress we have dealt with as a family over health insurance over the past decade is hard to even comprehend. And we have "good" insurance through my employer. The insurance company does everything they can to avoid paying claims, which I imagine is how the CEO managed to walk home with $66 million last year.

I know our same story is repeated millions of times across the country. We talk a lot about the quantitative cost of healthcare in the U.S. compared to other countries, but there's not much talk of the other costs: denied claims, added stress, and people putting off needed procedures due to all of these factors.

Until we have single payer, universal healthcare, none of this will change. The ACA improved things somewhat but it was only a stopgap as far as I'm concerned. There's no reason for the wealthiest country in the world to be stuck with a third world health insurance system.

[rhett o rick]

6. Clinton's attitude is that the 99% has the ACA and they should be grateful.

This was sold by the Conservative Wing to be the first step. Bullcrap. We knew that was a lie then and now Clinton is proving it.

Clinton asked to show her where she has been influenced by the money given to her and donated to her campaign. One area is the area of healthcare. She is clearly not on the side of the People on this issue.

[Orsino]

8. The sad thing is, "good enough" usually turns out to be good enough.

To get elected, anyway. The millions without coverage are politically visible, and a popular Establishment candidate may be able to ignore them all the way to victory.

There's a hunger out there for doing better, and I hope that this time around it can win. Health care/insurance reform that began with Clinton's attempts two decades before helped bring us the ACA. That is success worth building on, rather than a laurel to be rested on.

[RiverLover]

10. True! And its why I might as well not have insurance. Like many ppl, I can't use it.

Universal Healthcare. All the great countries have it.

So should we.

GO Bernie! http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-healthcare/

[senz]

11. Health care is a human right. No one should go without it.

The United States of America can afford to provide it for all of us.

Let's make it a priority.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. $380 bi-weekly company insurance, a $2550 FSA, still have $3-5,000 Out-of-Pocket expenses yearly. nt