Josh Sundquist- 4 Shocking Facts about US Healthcare
*kicks holes in walls*
I AM SO ANGRYThere are such ridiculously inflated prices for medical care in the states due to how the lawyers from the insurance companies negotiate things behind closed doors with the hospitals. Uninsured procedures don’t even cost the same amount between different hospitals and you end up with cases likethis Arizona womanwho was charged $40,000 per dose for two doses of antivenom, the same antivenom retailing in Mexico for $100 per dose. And she was put through hoops by her insurance for having it administered at an “out-of-network” hospital because she would have DIED in the amount of time it would have taken to get to an in-network facility with her provider. When I was in Ontario I had to go to a walk-in clinic basically uninsured (because I had Manitoba insurance) and pay $40 for the visit, in LA I went to a walk-in clinic WITH insurance and it was “$50 co-pay, $200 if you aren’t insured” like, it’s disgusting, it’s so hard to get even the most basic medical assistance in the States.
The hormone that controls blood sugar among diabetics is one of the oldest medicines used today. But more than 90 years after its discovery, a low-cost version is no longer available in the U.S.
CORPORATE AMERICA is giving workers a cruel choice: your job or your health.
Currently, four out of 10 private-sector workers don’t have a singe day of paid sick leave on the job. And if Corporate America gets its way, that number will only increase, according to a recent report by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI).
In 10 states so far, legislators are pushing through bans on city or county governments providing paid sick leave for workers. The bans, passed in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Wisconsin, are designed to act preemptively, blocking sick leave legislation from even coming to a vote.
… Some 12 percent of workers surveyed said that they or a family member have been fired, suspended or otherwise punished for taking time off for an illness, 16 percent said they’d lost a job, and 14 percent indicated that they were told that they would lose their job if they took time off for a personal or family illness.
