this stings but I totally get the sentiment. We are in our benefits selection process and I chatted that we should invite our eu counterparts so they can have a laff. You see what you do is you compare the price of the drug with what your insurnace offers versus a private discount card and then you factor in usage of the tax deductible account versus the value of it coming off your deductible. If you every want to know why americans seem angry so often think about that.
DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’m glad this tool exists, but I am more glad that I don’t live in the USA.
HubertManne@kbin.social 10 months ago
Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Usually don’t like jumping on the US healthcare = bad bandwagon, but jeeze having these shithole insurance companies in the middle looks awful.
It’s as simple as a doctor giving you a script and the chemist dispensing it here, thank fuck the government takes care of the rest
dom@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
But this shit can come to other countries if they aren’t careful. Fight Healthcare privatization with everything you’ve got
Norgur@kbin.social 10 months ago
That's a message for the Brits then. As long as the USA are a almost daily reminder as to why completely private healthcare is a really bad idea, mist countries that have public healtcare will probably be very hesitant to even discuss shit like that.
Yet, ideas being obviously and utterly stupid hasn't stopped the Brits very often in the past, has it?
dom@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
And the Canadians. Our right wing is cutting Healthcare budgets and saying the reason there are long wait times is because it needs to be privatized.
Sad thing is it’s working.
njm1314@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Good lord the balls on those liars to claim private insurance doesn’t have long wait times.
HubertManne@kbin.social 10 months ago
thats pretty much how everything is ruined in the US. The shining example that disproved it was the postal service and actually medicare and social security and our conservatives have been trying to poison those systems like crazy.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
This will be very piece by piece. The slow boil is the dangerous part.
joelfromaus@aussie.zone 10 months ago
A message for Australians too unfortunately. The LNP (our right-wing party) made efforts within their time in power to coax people into using private insurance and punishing those who do not. And unfortunately even with the more centre-left party in power it doesn’t seem like the public system is getting much more love.