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In reply to the discussion: I just spent two hours working on complete horseshit. [View all]lostnfound
(16,184 posts)37. I think you misunderstood me..complexity is burdensome. Many people can't cope.
Picture people with cognitive or emotional challenges. People with terminal illness. People whose kids are very sick yet they arejuggling work and caregiving.
Now picture them losing their job, having to learn about COBRA, THEN having to enroll in Obamacare: all the while getting bills from doctors, ERs, hospitals, labs; paying their copays and deductibles and coinsurance and in some cases COBRA payments, applying for copay assistance, sending receipts in for FSA or healthy reward, checking bills and more bills including debt collectors that may in fact be fraudulent, finding out which doctors are on their plan, filing appeals for denial of coverage...
The current system is too complicated.
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Single payer is used by very few countries to achieve Universal Health Care. Most use hybrid payers.
ehrnst
Jul 2019
#13
After getting a brain injury that sent me into seizures medical bills were a nightmare ...
uponit7771
Jul 2019
#15
There will be nothing "easy" about changing our baked in patchwork unregulated system,
ehrnst
Jul 2019
#26
I think you misunderstood me..complexity is burdensome. Many people can't cope.
lostnfound
Jul 2019
#37
As you personally experienced, it's not mixed payer the way some other countries are, where..
lostnfound
Jul 2019
#39