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0 pointsstuffn4mo ago0 comments

These wild cases aren't worth considering as far as "do I move to the US or not". They are exceedingly rare and while they can happen so can the wing falling off your plane on the trip here.

The bigger concern, IMO, is insurance is tied to employment. The time you get your massive bill is when you get very sick after being fired/laid off and your COBRA is up.

The next biggest concern is the ACA which is the greatest scam ever pulled on Americans. It started out as, what would've been, universal healthcare. Instead, it simply played into the insurance company profit centers by forcing people (now by law) to hold some kind of insurance or pay a large tax fine. So you're stuck paying $1,500 for sub-par care on a bronze plan with a massive deductible and no limit. So much for "increasing the competitiveness of the market".

Healthcare spends more money on lobbying than any other sector in America. The solution isn't to start breaking it down with crap like the ACA. That will get gutted by the bought and paid for politicians (which it did). What we need to do is begin by repealing citizen's united, limiting campaign contributions to 0 from industry professionals (in both their professional and personal capacity), and fire the congressmen taking the most money from them.

They don't have hearts. They have large wallets. Hit them where it hurts.

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culebron214mo ago

Agree. Also, it looks a lot like the USSR system, where general healthcare was underfinanced and had poor education quality (although, mostly worked against infectious diseases), hence some ministries and even enterprises (were part of ministries) had their own clinics and so-called sanatoriums (recreation and healthcare facilities for vacations). ...and also built their own residential apartment buildings (they'd order the construction enterprises, but had the housing themselves). So it mattered a lot where you worked and where you retired from.

dragonwriter4mo ago

> The next biggest concern is the ACA which is the greatest scam ever pulled on Americans. It started out as, what would've been, universal healthcare.

No, it didn't. Universal coverage between the mandatory coverage and the Medicare expansion was the goal, but universal coverage separate from the mandate you criticize was never part of the ACA or Obama’s proposals before Congress actually crafted the ACA (which differed somewhat from what the President proposed, and actually was closer in many ways to Clinton’s proposal from the campaign.)

> Instead, it simply played into the insurance company profit centers by forcing people (now by law) to hold some kind of insurance or pay a large tax fine.

...except the tax penalty was small, and it only existed for three years (first coming into play in 2014 and being set at 0 since 2017.)

> So you're stuck paying $1,500 for sub-par care on a bronze plan with a massive deductible and no limit.

"No limit" for...what? This sounds like you are talking about out-of-pocket limits, but there are out-of-pocket limits for bronze plans.

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