America’s health care system during a pandemic
Americans get their health insurance through their employer, but when our employer lays us off during a pandemic and we lose our health insurance during a worldwide pandemic, what are we supposed to do if we need health care? Pay out of pocket? Hope our luck holds out and we don’t get sick? Declare bankruptcy?
Trump was advised to open the Obamacare exchanges, but he refused out of spite, so he has his best people working to find another way to help the people.
This is one of those instances when the people’s spite-vote is backfiring. They elected a man just so he could wreck the government, and while he’s doing a splendid job of it, the people realize they need a lot of the government services they just had dismantled. Certainly they will be able to rationalize their vote by blaming someone else.
HenryThomas
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Tobie Stuffle
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The U.S. is the only developed country that does not have compulsory health insurance. The fractured system, consisting of the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, functions at the expense of a third party. Insurance companies, which mediate between patients and health care providers, monitor the appropriateness of prescriptions and pay for treatment. Many healthcare centers cannot survive without support from companies like https://fortismedicalbilling.com/massachusetts/. It's hard to assume that the coronavirus would have been defeated without loss under such a system.
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angywall
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Thanks for sharing