Yeah, fuck Medicare for All, because THIS is "freedom": [Insured] Family swamped by avalanche of bills after son’s death: 'It’s continuous'

Insured, mind you. They have insurance. Thing is, the idea is that to make a profit, you have to deny and delay care, and try to force the patients and their families to pay up, if you can. Profit. It's fucking disgusting.

So, yeah, here's a taste of what's coming, and, uh, gee, ya think this pisses people off to the point where they hurl their vote at a fool like Trump? Who among the Democrats will even try to fix this? Right.

James was just seven months old when he died in hospice. But the Cavatore family would be haunted by an avalanche of bills for years to come, despite having medical insurance.

 “I got one bill, and it was $1.1m,” said Federico Cavatore, the boys’ father. “I joked to myself, I said, I’m going to frame this and put it in Thomas’ room and say, ‘This is why you’re getting a scholarship to college.’”

The Cavatore family’s situation is a graphic illustration of an American health system, where medical bills can feel like a second trauma, even for those who have health insurance. It can financially break those who don’t.

For the Cavatores the uncertainty and bills were part of how their health insurance was designed to function, and part of a larger trend of private health plans pushing costs on to patients.

The Cavatores were hit with “surprise bills”, expenses for medical supplies, co-payments and deductibles, and calls from bill collectors. James’ birth and treatment probably cost the family close to $38,000 out-of-pocket, though they were served with bills charging them many times that amount, forcing them to spend hours challenging the claims and bringing their financial costs down, even as their emotional costs spiraled upwards.

Here's the rest.

By the way, having worked in customer service, I can tell you with absolute certainty that part of the conscious plan is to use that rising emotional cost, as well as relative lack of resources and knowledge, to just fucking wring more profit out of people in this situation.

Call our system what it is: Goodfellas Medicine: "Fucking baby just died? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you have stage-four cancer? Fuck you, pay me. Got hit by a truck and need care for life? Fuck you, pay me. We have profit to make."

It is radical evil. Radical. Evil. 

But rich latte-sippers honestly couldn't give a fuck. They like their healthcare stock portfolio, and they figure this can't happen to them. Wrongly. Plus, above all, their pwecious wittle self-images and identities are wrapped up in being "moderate." Not icky lefties. So, 30,000 excees deaths is just peachy. 

I mean, their egos, remember. Their egos. What else ever matters, after all?



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