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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAir ambulance covered? Copay? What does this cost what does that cost? STRESS ! ! ! !
Only in America can you spend hours, days researching what you are covered for and not, whether or not you need to subscribe to an air ambulance company in case you need to be lifted out of your area, etc.
And republicans want to REDUCE benefits, not increase them?
INSANITY...
Remember, the phrase "health insurance" really only exists here as does the phrase "popular vote".
If we didnt have idiots insisting on making billionaires richer at their own demise (middle class Republicans), we could change this practically overnight.
There should be no thought or stress around health coverage. It should be covered, 100% from birth to death. Like every-fucking-where else on the planet.
ExciteBike66
(2,375 posts)The Republicans say that if you are in a horrendous accident and need LifeStar, you can just go online and find the cheapest LifeStar company in your area and call them! In fact, under the Republican plan, LifeStars from different states can now fly across state lines, so maybe one from a neighboring state will fly alllllllll the way out to your accident site to pick you up, thus saving you tens of dollars due to competition (while costing thousands of dollars more for fuel).
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)Remarkable how dumb 60 million of us are.
ExciteBike66
(2,375 posts)Although, I bet if you are a white male, then Republicans would prefer you alive.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)In fact, sometimes they reserve double extra hate for people like me.
Traitors to the white race, and all that jazz.
Vinca
(50,312 posts)If you're in a bad car crash and they airlift you out, what the heck kind of bill must you get for that!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)What if you dont have the necessary acute care in your area and you have to be flown as far as 200 or 300 miles away?
Wow, could be a fortune.
Vinca
(50,312 posts)One trip being unconscious and going to the ER could bankrupt a person. It's bizarre and doesn't happen in other countries. In fact, a neighbor had a Canadian visiting a few years ago who became seriously ill and a medical evacuation jet/team was sent to pick her up. The Canadian healthcare system figured it was cheaper to pick her up and take her to Toronto that to pay for her treatment in the U.S.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)if middle class and poor Americans would say "I would rather have healthcare than racism?"
Vinca
(50,312 posts)Everyone should be on Medicare.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)But, nothing we can do about that until he kills more of his voters.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)now by taking the middle man corporate prick out of the scenario.
Why republican voters dont understand this I will never know.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)It's amazing the mental gymnastics they perform in order to continue to believe the things they want to believe.
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Yes..
Prince William is a pilot aka Captain Wales with the East Anglian Air Ambulance. He'll fly you to hospital. On the NHS. Copay: $0. No Royal Surcharge either.
And anyone want to knock "government healthcare"?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/591376/Prince-William-s-first-rescue-mission-aborted-air-ambulance-rescue-job
Let's see anyone Trump related do this. (Hahahaha only joking, that will never happen.)
Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)providing a service for people without figuring out a way to charge them for it?
These idiots, who are NOT capitalists, think they are.
Tracer
(2,769 posts)Unfortunately, it was snowing hard and the helicopter couldn't fly.
So they bundled me into a regular ambulance and got me to the second hospital.
When I got the bill, it sure looked like they had charged for the helicopter, the EMT's time, and the 15 mile ride.
$3,000.