HAH! I KNEW THOSE BUGGERS WERE THE REASON FOR TARP. And everyone I talked to about it told me my tin foil hat was too tight (again).
Oh, I figured out long long ago hospitals were a racket, since the only times in my life I had "insurance" were when I was a milspouse (and that's different), and obamacare, which I ditched as soon as I met a loophole for not paying the fine.
Hubby and I have always paid cash for medical care. heck when I was a kid, only rich people had insurance, or folks with cushy jobs. The most anyone else had was catastrophic cap when it came out.
I never pay what they ask, we always negotiate. But I don't know whether we make it down to the medicare level. Thanks for the link!
We have always gotten our care down to an affordable for us level. Probably not as low as we could have, but far lower than they wanted.
I got an ER visit with an abdominal CT scan, full bloodwork, I.V., pain meds for my hubby for 550.00 a few years ago. Since they wanted 3800, I was pretty happy. But we don't need care often these days thankfully, and our doc appointments run us 30.00, his 2 meds are 5.00 each through the pharmacy program, and then bloodwork twice a year for both of us. Not much.
His colonoscopies run around 300, same with his MRIs when he needs them. If we could just get more people understanding that medical insurance is essentially a scam, it would be great.
Obamacare basically wiped out our personal savings account for medical care. On premiums. With a deductible such that we never actually got any care out of it. Highly annoying shit.
I think catastrophic care plans have returned, and if they have we may get one again. But run of the mill health care, like auto care, should be something you pay out of pocket.
HAH! I KNEW THOSE BUGGERS WERE THE REASON FOR TARP. And everyone I talked to about it told me my tin foil hat was too tight (again).
Oh, I figured out long long ago hospitals were a racket, since the only times in my life I had "insurance" were when I was a milspouse (and that's different), and obamacare, which I ditched as soon as I met a loophole for not paying the fine.
Hubby and I have always paid cash for medical care. heck when I was a kid, only rich people had insurance, or folks with cushy jobs. The most anyone else had was catastrophic cap when it came out.
I never pay what they ask, we always negotiate. But I don't know whether we make it down to the medicare level. Thanks for the link!
We have always gotten our care down to an affordable for us level. Probably not as low as we could have, but far lower than they wanted.
I got an ER visit with an abdominal CT scan, full bloodwork, I.V., pain meds for my hubby for 550.00 a few years ago. Since they wanted 3800, I was pretty happy. But we don't need care often these days thankfully, and our doc appointments run us 30.00, his 2 meds are 5.00 each through the pharmacy program, and then bloodwork twice a year for both of us. Not much.
His colonoscopies run around 300, same with his MRIs when he needs them. If we could just get more people understanding that medical insurance is essentially a scam, it would be great.
Obamacare basically wiped out our personal savings account for medical care. On premiums. With a deductible such that we never actually got any care out of it. Highly annoying shit.
I think catastrophic care plans have returned, and if they have we may get one again. But run of the mill health care, like auto care, should be something you pay out of pocket.