• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    It is working.

    Joe Biden took almost nine million in Big Pharma money. Every member of Congress has probably taken a large sum of money from them too, and they can loan their campaigns money at 20% interest and legally pocket those lobbyist contributions.

    That is why diabetics in this country are stuck paying a mortgage payment to inhabit their own bodies. It’s by design, and you will never change it voting for the two ruling parties.

    I wish it were something we could change, but on this issue, we’re basically powerless.

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    2 years ago

    The final bill from my appendectomy (no complications, wasn’t even in the hospital for 24 hours total) in March was $169k USD.

    With “good” insurance, I still paid $7k out of pocket.

  • LollerCorleone@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    This is unbelievably fucked up. Everytime I see posts about the healthcare system in the US, it feels like I am reading prompts from a dystopic fiction.