CNBC video on medical debt posted on January 23, 2023. It is well worth your 10 minutes and 39 seconds to watch… “Neither medical bills nor medical debt should exist in the United States in the twenty-first century. We do not need health insurance of any kind or cost, what we need is quality health care. If you are not wealthy enough to pay the exorbitant costs to for-profit companies to keep you alive and relatively healthy, you are punished with debt, bankruptcy and even your life or those of your loved ones.”
There are also so many chronic health conditions that aren’t even treatable by the healthcare that’s covered by insurance. For those conditions, quite often it’s only the wealthy who can afford alternative and ancillary treatments. And that wealth is rarely attained through working because many with chronic conditions can’t meet the demands of our working culture.
41% of Americans carry medical debt?!?!!! Wow. I know of several declared bankruptcies back in the ‘90s and early 2000s due to medical debt- but now I think the laws have changed and this isn’t allowed. Absolutely insane. You’d think we were a third world country- or at least back in the days of debtors prisons 😞
Medicaid expansion should not be left up to each individual state; it should be mandatory across the board. The insurance companies should not be able to pick and choose what health care a person can receive. This country needs universal health coverage like almost every other civilized country has.
There are also so many chronic health conditions that aren’t even treatable by the healthcare that’s covered by insurance. For those conditions, quite often it’s only the wealthy who can afford alternative and ancillary treatments. And that wealth is rarely attained through working because many with chronic conditions can’t meet the demands of our working culture.
41% of Americans carry medical debt?!?!!! Wow. I know of several declared bankruptcies back in the ‘90s and early 2000s due to medical debt- but now I think the laws have changed and this isn’t allowed. Absolutely insane. You’d think we were a third world country- or at least back in the days of debtors prisons 😞
Medicaid expansion should not be left up to each individual state; it should be mandatory across the board. The insurance companies should not be able to pick and choose what health care a person can receive. This country needs universal health coverage like almost every other civilized country has.