Reply #13: My husband's company sent home a brochure the [View All]

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other day touting their new "medical savings accounts" plan. Just squire x amount of dollars away every month and it will be there should you ever need it. What a joke. Who the hell can afford having yet another automatic deduction from their paycheck to slowly build funds into an account that would be wiped out after the first round of tests for some condition.

People are resorting to credit cards to "pay" their medical bills because they don't have the money to pay them up front. It's that simple. And the reason they don't have the money is that premiums are astronomical, co-pays high, and, oh yeah, they have other obligations like keeping a roof over their heads and food on the table.

It's a goddamn shame the self-professed "greatest country on earth" does such a piss poor job of providing basic services - like health care - to its citizens.