Well, if insurance isn’t going to help anyway, as in the example above, I understand why they don’t. If you get financially ruined by getting sick, it doesn’t really matter how ruined you get. At some point you’d give up and accept that there is no way out of that pit. That said, even breaking a leg would ruin you, if you don’t have insurance, whereas the example above was substantially more serious.
Personally, I have smashed my thumb once, when I was younger, and recently my knee. Both times needed surgery, and were pretty complicated, but I had no stress about expenses or even concerns about consequenses at work. Everything was free, and I got paid my regular sallary while I was recovering. This is without insurance, in a country with free healthcare!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You don’t get financially ruined by any sort of sickness. Long-term illnesses can ruin you financially even if you have good insurance, but basic medicine and, especially, preventative medicine to stop long-term illness is not expensive with insurance and pretty important to be able to afford.
Would I like it to be universal healthcare? Absolutely. But their “because I’m healthy” excuse is bullshit and puts a strain on an ER system that is already being strained by people who can’t afford insurance rather than don’t want to pay it.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just because you don’t get financially ruined by getting I’ll, , does not mean that others won’t.
62% of all adults in the US, live paycheck to paycheck. If they break a leg, it’s not safe to assume that they’d recover financially
My point is, that if you can’t pay back $35k for a complicated fraction, you won’t care if you can’t pay $200k for cancer treatment. It’s the same
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They live paycheck-to-paycheck in part because they have to pay health insurance, which is why a compound fracture wouldn’t cost them $35,000.