Single Payer Health Systems

Thav

(949 posts) Tue Nov 12, 2013, 10:51 AM Nov 2013

Is the US on single payer yet? [View all]

I got a call saying I still owe $stupid on my son's birth. I said, "That doesn't sound right at all. Was this filed through insurance?" I got the response, "No. It said one of the payers was medicare, were you on medicare at the time?" I replied. "What? No, we were on the insurance plan that the hospital provides to its employees because my wife works there."

On top of everything I have to do, I now have to run around and fix someone else's screw up.

Seriously, can we have single payer yet, so I don't have to pay 30% of my income for medical bills? Pretty please?

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Is the US on single payer yet? [View all] Thav Nov 2013 OP

Unless Democrats campaign on Medicare for All, 2014 isn't going to be pretty. n/t Loudly Nov 2013 #1

Try dealing with bullshit insurance bureaucracy when you are sick. JEB Nov 2013 #2

sorry for you all riverbendviewgal Nov 2013 #3

You don't live in a corporatofascist nation either. DissidentVoice Nov 2013 #5

You live in the Corporate States of America murphyj87 Jan 2014 #6

Nice to see you can see the picture riverbendviewgal Jan 2014 #8

Same in the UK OwnedByCats Jan 2014 #7

Blood Forming Stem Cells Discovered in Canada murphyj87 Feb 2014 #9

What does this have to do with OwnedByCats Feb 2014 #10

Because Americans think they discovered and invented everything murphyj87 Feb 2014 #11

You obviously have me mistaken for somebody OwnedByCats Feb 2014 #12

My wife was just diagnosed with breast cancer DissidentVoice Nov 2013 #4