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Question: Do you have health insurance?
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I live in the U.S. and I do		  
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I live in the U.S. and I do because of the ACA		  
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I live in the U.S. and I don't		  
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I live in another country and I do		  
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I live in another country and I don't		  
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justfollowingtheelections
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« on: January 14, 2017, 01:27:59 AM »
Just curious...
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Antonio the Sixth
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« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2017, 01:59:49 AM »
Yup, it comes with being a student here and thankfully the fee is covered by my fellowship.
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« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2017, 02:11:09 AM »
Yes, at first it was because the folks managed to get personal insurance...when that went out control, Covered California stepped in, and now I'm on MediCal.
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« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2017, 03:34:18 AM »
Yes, I live in Austria.

Here, 99.9% of the population have health insurance and only 0.1% (which is 9000 people) don't, for some reason or the other (mostly asylum seekers and other immigrants coming in who have not filed an asylum request yet. As soon as they are moved to a quarter, they get health insurance).

But even these 9.000 or so people get free health care of course at clinics, if they have a medical problem.

Not having health insurance for all people is unimaginable here, let alone the excesses of sky-high medical bills that you have in the US ...

And not only that, Austria's health care system (unlike the state) runs high surpluses every year.
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« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2017, 07:33:06 AM »
I don't have health insurance but only because my Republican state government refuses to expand Medicaid
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« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2017, 10:42:59 AM »
Yes, regular kind through my work.  It's gotten very expensive the last few years.  My daughter had her appendix removed yesterday, we are dreading the bill.
Quote from: Tender Branson on January 14, 2017, 03:34:18 AM
But even these 9.000 or so people get free health care of course at clinics, if they have a medical problem.
This is true in the US as well and has always been the case.  If you have no money and no insurance and break your leg, you will have a cast on your leg eventually.  Yes there are numerous exceptions, but generally speaking if you get in an accident or get shot in a drug deal gone sour or have your appendix burst, you will get medical attention.

Again, I'm not saying there are not horrible exceptions.  Nor am I saying "yeah!, the system is working!".  It ain't.
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« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2017, 10:51:05 AM »
Yes, and I have employer provided insurance for the things the government system doesn't cover.
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« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2017, 10:57:22 AM »
No. I have full access to healthcare services as a right of citizenship.
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« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2017, 12:33:59 PM »
Yes, that's mandatory here.
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« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2017, 12:45:39 PM »
Yep, and i can barely afford it.
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« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2017, 03:40:25 PM »
     Yes, through my work.
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« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2017, 04:07:14 PM »
Yes, through the ACA.
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« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2017, 05:59:09 AM »
Yes. There is no choice in Germany. You have to have. But I have automatically as full-time employed person.
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« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2017, 08:44:30 AM »
I'm a Medicare.
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« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2017, 03:24:51 PM »
Yes, $350 is redistributed out of my paycheck every month to pay for other people's healthcare.

My deductible and max out-of-pocket are so high that I might as well not even have it. But at least we get our $10 birth control free!
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« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2017, 03:44:59 PM »
Quote from: whitesox130 on January 15, 2017, 03:24:51 PM
Yes, $350 is redistributed out of my paycheck every month to pay for other people's healthcare.

My deductible and max out-of-pocket are so high that I might as well not even have it. But at least we get our $10 birth control free!

Uh mine is like $80/month. High deductible and OOP yes but I'd think a $350/month plan wouldn't be so bad.
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« Reply #16 on: January 16, 2017, 08:56:24 AM »

On the gummit dole........ugh.
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« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2017, 10:52:32 AM »

Honey in more ways than one. If and when I am in charge of the Fruited Plain, everything will be means tested, and I will be zeroed out. Our current system of subsidies cannot be morally justified. The end.
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« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2017, 11:36:03 AM »
Quote from: RIP Jante's Law, FF on January 14, 2017, 01:59:49 AM
Yup, it comes with being a student here and thankfully the fee is covered by my fellowship.

I'm soon gonna find out if it's any good.
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« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2017, 12:58:26 PM »
For the first time in my life I do through my work: before that I was covered by the glorious invention that is the NHS, like the vast majority of British people. 
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« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2017, 01:37:06 PM »
Quote from: RIP Jante's Law, FF on January 16, 2017, 11:36:03 AM
Quote from: RIP Jante's Law, FF on January 14, 2017, 01:59:49 AM
Yup, it comes with being a student here and thankfully the fee is covered by my fellowship.

I'm soon gonna find out if it's any good.

Are you sick?
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« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2017, 01:57:11 PM »
Quote from: #MAGA (Make America Grumpy Again) on January 16, 2017, 01:37:06 PM
Quote from: RIP Jante's Law, FF on January 16, 2017, 11:36:03 AM
Quote from: RIP Jante's Law, FF on January 14, 2017, 01:59:49 AM
Yup, it comes with being a student here and thankfully the fee is covered by my fellowship.

I'm soon gonna find out if it's any good.

Are you sick?

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=256532.msg5474743#msg5474743
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« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2017, 02:05:23 PM »

I had several broken toes already (hit it a few times while getting out of the shower, lol).

Even though it feels extremely weird and like there's no bone in there anymore, or like rubber and blue-blackish, I never went to the doctor because of it.

The bones usually grow together again within 1 or 2 weeks ...
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« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2017, 02:12:19 PM »
I'm definitely at least getting an X-ray to find out what kind of fracture it is. I don't want to be stuck limping for life because the bones have grown back wrong.
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« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2017, 02:20:03 PM »
Quote from: RIP Jante's Law, FF on January 16, 2017, 02:12:19 PM
I'm definitely at least getting an X-ray to find out what kind of fracture it is. I don't want to be stuck limping for life because the bones have grown back wrong.

Ok, well I hope you feel better.
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