the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
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I love the bit about more people than ever having health insurance. Every time I deal with my health insurance, trying to find a medical provider that will take my insurance, waiting for my insurance to approve something, it just makes me mad. I get angry at the insurance company for being fucking awful to deal with an basically useless, and I get even more angry at the fuckers in power who refuse to solve this extremely solvable problem because they don't want to upset donors.
Fuck, I just got mad thinking about it. Fuck Joe Biden and everybody else in federal elected office.
There are TV commercials all the time for "Yes you may be on Medicaid, but you're only on Medacaid part A, what you really need to not die in agony is Medicaid part C. Why is everyone not just automatically on that plan? Shut the fuck up and go fill out several days worth of forms."
Part C is a privatised program in which the government hands over your Medicare money to UnitedHealthcare or whomever so that they can instead put you on basically just a dogshit marketplace plan. You then have to deal with all of the worst problems of insurance in exchange for... Uhhh... Maybe a couple added benefits like super limited dental coverage?
It fucking sucks and should be illegal.
so you have health insurance but we still need to do 3 rounds of stuff we know is unnecessary/won't work before they allow what you actually need
i will never get over how insane it is that private medical insurance companies have any say whatsoever in the care you are allowed to have. its the death panel shit they made up to smear universal healthcare, but real, legal, and in the hands of organizations that have a monetary interest in not paying for anything because if you die, you can't file more claims.
It's the same energy as "low unemployment" (ignoring the fact that people who have given up looking for work are not counted, also people working only part-time)
Anyone who wonders why more people than ever being on private health insurance might result in anger towards the status quo has never had to see a doctor before.