r/HealthInsurance • u/pandapower63 • Apr 14 '24

Plan Choice Suggestions What can regular Americans who are fed up with their health insurance do about it?

I’ve written my elected officials in government. What else can we do? It’s depressing and it’s wrong. That people can’t get healthcare easily and affordably. People are dying early because they don’t get the care they need.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '24

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u/i-VII-VI Apr 14 '24

Nope, can’t find anyone to vote for honestly. I can vote for not making it worse faster but I can’t vote to make anything better.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '24

That’s true. Nobody seriously wants to improve it but it’s clear that the republicans want to make things worse. 

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u/CuriousOptimistic Apr 15 '24

Yes, this 'both sides' stuff is nonsense. Neither party is awesome but one is still VASTLY better than the other on this issue.

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u/Ifawumi Apr 14 '24

People always say this. I've been a nurse for 30 years and also have a ton of friends in Europe. Every patient or friend I've talked to does not significantly pay more taxes than we do, especially considering that you subtract health insurance costs, health copays, prescriptions, etc that we have to pay. Every foreign patient I've had gets the heck out of here as soon as possible and usually with a comment about not understanding how we deal with this and saying it's insane

I mean how much do you pay an insurance per month right now? You realize that cost totally goes away. Your taxes will not go up that much if we had nationalized healthcare

Think about this please

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u/HealthInsurance-ModTeam Apr 15 '24

Simple rule, please no politics in this subreddit.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '24

The US has by a wide margin the highest healthcare costs per capita of any country. Dependant on how things would be set up, maybe taxes would go up but premiums, deductibles and out of pocket would go down. So overall it should be a win over the current system.

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u/MrDinStP Apr 14 '24

Stop drinking the kool aid.