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Not really. Could be something entirely fine but requiring monthly medication. If you can't afford that. You're fuck.
We have people rationing insulin in this country for Christ sake.
Well, sure, if we’re gonna bring in the do you have insurance factor, then it becomes a whole different game. If you don’t have insurance, I don’t even know. Death is probably imminent..
EDIT: Who is downvoting me? Fans of American health insurance corporations? Our system is trash, why are you mad at me?
Even with insurance. I had to take an ambulance ride once only to literally end up hanging out at the hospital with the nurses who put me on a saline drip and otherwise just chatted with me because it was a nice break, and the ambulance cost me $600 AFTER insurance.
The average American has less than $300 in their bank account.
$600 is cheap for an ambulance, as I understand it. I’ve fortunately never had to take one. I have $15 in my bank account.
Yeah, it was that cheap because I have health insurance, otherwise just the ambulance probably would've cost over $1,500, and I was perfectly fine by the time I reached the hospital. The ambulance ride and 3 hours at the hospital were mandatory to make sure I was actually okay, but I didn't have any serious issue that needed medical intervention or anything. My point was that even without a serious illness, and even with health insurance, you can still be one trip to the hospital away from being bankrupted by medical debt.
There are plenty of people whose policies get cancelled or there insurance companies refuse to cover stuff.
I know. I was trying to say that if we take that into account, it gets a whole lot worse.