• PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
    251·
    3 months ago

    I live in Minnesota and I have health insurance through my employer and I do not qualify for this program. It costs me over $200 just to walk in the door of the clinic. I recently had to get a CT scan and it cost me $1800. A fucking covid test cost $135, even though the state will mail them to me for free.

    I don’t make that much money. I can barely afford these bills. I’m a proud Minnesotan, but this post makes it seem like our healthcare is so much better than every other state, and I’m here to tell you that it most definitely is not

    • Grilipper54@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      This is more a problem with your employers health insurance. Yes Minnesota healthcare is not perfect but if you’re very low income, it’s better than other states. MNsure certainly helped me a bit and provided free healthcare for awhile.

    • Beetschnapps@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      3 months ago

      Would it make you feel better to know those with insurance often also pay a lot of money?

      Does it make you feel better or worse to say that your employer is terrible?

      Do you see any difference between you having a shitty employer and your state protecting citizens from the worst you have suffered?

  • gibmiser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    But the government is literally incapable of ever doing anything right! We made sure of it! How is this possible!!

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      No this is a failure of government, their job is to make poor people’s/ minority’s lives harder and keep them beaten down /s

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    152·
    3 months ago

    As a citizen of a civilized country: What is this “medical debt” Americans keep talking about?

      • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        3 months ago

        For ages, the American public does obviously not want any kind of social security, because you managed not to fix this basic problem for a number of differend government periods. So we are talking about happily agreeing victims.

        • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Our system as it is set up is explicitly anti democratic and impossible to reform in any way without the buy in of the very officials who benefit from it being so. There’s no solution but revolution, and the people are so trapped in capitalist realism that many cannot perceive that any option exists other than to slowly watch as our quality of life degrades and our rights are stripped away one by one. There are a minority who are against such things as affordable healthcare, but there is literally studies done showing that regardless of popular support numbers for any given policy, there is no effect on the likelihood said policy will be implemented. Conversely, the support of the top 10% for a policy, or lack thereof, correlates directly to its likelihood of being implemented.

          All that to say, this country is definitively a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

        • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 months ago

          Where I’m from

          1. You legally have to be insured and the only way to change your insurance is proving that you’re insured somewhere else
          2. If you’re employed, your employer pays the insurance for you, if you’re unemployed the responsibility to pay is on you
    • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      As citizen of country that was civilized 25 years ago: I have no idea.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      71·
      3 months ago

      I mean, that’s like eight people. Pretty easy for one guy with lousy insurance to throw off the results.

    • Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      The map appears to be by county, so you have Jackson Hole, Cheyenne, Yellowstone, and finally everyone else.

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Anyone know what’s going on in that one red triangle in Pennsylvania? I’m not familiar with that part of PA and nothing stands out on a map

    Aside from that, all of the northeast except Maine showing well.

  • weariedfae@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Wait, I thought most states did? Meant for the really low income people on food stamps and cash assistance?

    Also, Jesus Christ Wyoming.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      yo be fair, wyoming has a population smaller than major states bigger cities, so having access to a doctor in that reletively speaking, spread out isnt that easy, nor momentarily desireable for a doctor that would work there unless theyre heavily compensated.