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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
people who had insurance have worse now, as I predicted.
my daughter just turned 26. she is very broke. the health care she got, as a broke person, comes with a $3000 deductible. How is that possible? That is (other than my checkbook) practically the same as having no insurance. I hope really poor people are covered w/o deductible, because if you wrecked the system for most and didn't even really help the truly poor that is fucked up.
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When I was 22, I had no insurance. I was hit by a car, shattering my leg. I was picked up by an ambulance. I spent ten days in one hospital, five in another. I needed an external fixator (metal rods outside the leg, with pins going in to hold the bone in place), bone graft, several tissue grafts. And about a year of follow-up care and therapy. For many years, until California law changed, any health insurance I could get excluded anything that might happen to my right leg.
So, I would suggest that your daughter's situation is not remotely similar to having no insurance.
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