"High-Deductible Health Policies Linked To Delayed Diagnosis And Treatment" -NPR

[corbettkroehler]

Although I support Sanders in the primary, given that multiple candidates for the Democratic nomination support Medicare For All, including sharing the podium with Sanders during the announcement of the latest round of the Senate bill, this post is broad advocacy for single-payer healthcare, not a candidate.

In fact, in terms of expressing it on the campaign trail, I feel that Senator Harris verbalizes the issue best. Paraphrasing, private insurance doesn't work.

http://npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/18/713887452/high-deductible-health-policies-linked-to-delayed-diagnosis-and-treatment

High-Deductible Health Policies Linked To Delayed Diagnosis And Treatment

Erika Stallings

The out-of-pocket expense of mammograms, MRIs and other tests and treatments can be several thousand dollars each year when you have a high-deductible health policy.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. No surprise. Should never happen. Lack of $ in not getting the health care you need ...

is a crime, seems to go against the oath that doctors have (and some 'Christians' too, eh?, in help thy fellow man?).

[Voltaire2]

2. no shit.

What we need is a comprehensive universal non-profit single payer system with no deductibles, no co-pays, no !surprise it's out of network! bullshit system, and everyone needs to be in the same system so it can't be fucked with.

[artislife]

3. High premiums and high deductables

if you are self employed in this very Blue State of Washington. My landlord/roommate owns her flooring business so she makes so money but less than $80,000. Her insurance shot up to a premium of 500 (or more, not remembering exact amount but know it was over 500) a month and a 7500 dollar deductible. That I do remember, because to get any benefit you had to actually be pretty injured or ill.

I stay at a dead end job because my benefits are great. 150 a month for medical, dental and vision with a 600 deductible but with routine checkups and chiro exempt from deductible.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

4. I really wish that you didn't have to think about the cost of treatment here in the US

It needs to become free at the point of service. I have thought recently how much more affordable it would be to live in Canada instead of the U.S. when I went there on a trip a few weeks ago. It is unsustainable and some form of universal healthcare system has to be priority one of the next Democratic President.