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   Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:01:04 JST Bread up, Bro
   This feels like a good thing. While obviously things like hospitalization are unknown quantities, we've ended up backing ourselves out of fully paid for medical by making everyone go on high deductible plans, and so people need to know how much things cost.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:51:26 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • EvilSandmich
     @EvilSandmich yeah, the whole system is a disaster.
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 22:51:27 JST EvilSandmich

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     @sickburnbro Every prescription I've ever had has been like:
     >"Oh you have insurance? That will be $20"
     But my insurance is high deductible so I really don't, so:
     >"Oh you don't have insurance? That will be $10"
     :pepe_gun:
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 23:36:35 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • WhitestTemplar
     @EvilSandmich @WhitestTemplar I don't know if there is a lot of profit to be squeezed from hospitals just because of the insane malpractice which changed how doctors were associated, and the requirement to treat everyone who comes into the ER
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     EvilSandmich (evilsandmich@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 23:36:36 JST EvilSandmich

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     • WhitestTemplar
     @WhitestTemplar @sickburnbro Is there a "university hospital" left in the country that hasn't been incorporated and turned into a for-profit scheme that just carries the "university" moniker as a marketing gimmick?
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     WhitestTemplar (whitesttemplar@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Feb-2025 23:36:37 JST WhitestTemplar

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     • EvilSandmich
     @EvilSandmich @sickburnbro Hospitals shouldn't be corpo owned. Simple as.
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     PopulistRight (populistright@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 02:22:56 JST PopulistRight

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     @sickburnbro High-deductible plans - the last thing most Americans could still afford, after Wall St took over the formerly non-profit insurance and hospitals - but didn't Obamacare make them illegal? Granted, they still screw you with "co-pays."
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     Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl (karldahl@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 02:22:56 JST Boina Roja Enthusiast Karl Dahl

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     • PopulistRight
     @PopulistRight @sickburnbro "Obama's" plan was just a relabeling of the Romney plan, drafted by insurance companies to cover their terms for accommodating the fringe stuff
     Bread up, Bro likes this.
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     Bread up, Bro (sickburnbro@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 27-Feb-2025 02:23:36 JST Bread up, Bro

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     • PopulistRight
     @KarlDahl @PopulistRight man, maybe if we stop paying for PReP then health insurance might be almost affordable again