THIS is the problem with healthcare

[blackangst1]

It doesn't name a single significant Republican politician who is pro single payer. It doesn't even name a single Republican politician who is pro single payer.

Nope and that was my mistake. Based on voting on Bernie's last try, it doesnt have much Democrat support either. More than the GOP, of course. However, single payer, as a previous post or a Google search will point out, is gaining significant support amongst Trump voters. Which is good thing.

 

[interchange]

Past medical expenses... hmmm, I'll just stick to last year since it's obviously recent, but I've had plenty of others throughout life.

Last Year alone -
*Daughter born premature by 3 months
*Birth of daughter
*Nasal correction surgery for myself
*I take an expensive medication for epilepsy - cost is roughly $800 for a 30-day supply.

At the end of the year: I paid about $2,000 for carrying the insurance, and ~$5,000 for the entire year's procedures and prescriptions. My insurance paid over $1.3m IIRC. I would pull it up and show a screenshot if the UHC website has a way to but it seems to only show this year.

So overall, cost me $7k, and $2k of that was before taxes. Also have HSA investments and contributions from my employer that also offset some of these costs. So to put that in terms of how much of a percentage healthcare last year cost me less than 4% of our income... and last year that was obviously a case where we had a drastically more medical expenses than normal.



Taxation. Check the tax rates of all the countries you guys love to idolize with their single payer systems

Just because an insurer is billed $1.3M and says they covered it by no means indicates that they actually paid $1.3M. That amount is unknowable but assuredly much less.