That’s one reason treating health care as a profit-making, competitive business is so ridiculous, why it is a failure, why it results in people in the United States getting the poorest health care while spending more money. It just doesn’t work.
Rattle them sabers. Call it socialism. Listen to all of the tired talk show hosts.
The U.S. has the costliest system, spending $2.4 trillion a year, but leaving 48 million uninsured and many others under insured.
People live and die in this country based on insurance decisions correlated to profit margins.
How many in this country lose their homes and savings because they have the unfortunate experience of contracting a serious disease?
Take Mikki Bort Machalinski, a 36-year-old Albion business owner. She is battling stage III B breast cancer. Machalinksi owns Mikki Bort’s Martial Arts School and T-Shirt Printing.
The former Conneaut resident is a sixth-degree black belt.
If she lived in any other industrialized nation all she would have to concentrate on is getting well. But not in the United States.
Her friends hosted an event for her at St. Lawrence Center in Erie a week ago. They had a Chinese auction, bake sale, a gun raffle (no kidding), a quilt raffle, music, food and games, with an admission fee. All to help pay her hospital bills.
It’s not like she doesn’t have insurance. She does. But her insurance won’t cover prescriptions and one of her medications costs $280. She must have both breasts removed, but insurance will cover only one breast.
This certainly isn’t the lone instance.
How many have been turned down for care because:
n It is an experimental procedure
n It is a pre-existing condition
n Your insurance doesn’t cover that procedure or only pays so much for that procedure and your doctor / hospital charges more than that
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