Microblog Memes

What amazes me is Americans doing this to themselves. Literally acting against their own best interests, putting their lives and wellbeing in the hands of companies only concerned about profit.

American health insurance? That's not how it works in other countries

And then having to send emails back and forth for months talking to several people, taking days off work and spending hours on the phone for clearance to watch stranger things and having it be denied because of some obscure reason that is going to take you several more days off work to try to get clearance to watch the show again

I hear you. How does one pirate health insurance?

Universal healthcare is so hard that only 32 of the 33 highly developed countries in the world do it.

But hey, my doctor gets to brag about the multiple properties he owns while he barely pays attention to what I'm talking to him about. It's a great system for doctors.

Maybe we should try voting harder for representatives that are owned by the corrupt insurance companies and their shareholders

After recently apartment hunting, I have a (slightly tangential) gripe to add on here.

When I was getting my income verification (to prove I could afford the proposed rent), it went off gross income - what you make before taxes and so-called “benefits” are taken out. The hundreds I pay each month for the “benefit” of being insured make a significant difference between what I make and what I take home. Do I make 3x a given rent? Well technically, by gross income, I do. But my net income is where that rent payment comes from, so the chunk of my take-home going toward rent is absolutely higher than 1/3 of the net income I can actually use.

I have no choice but to pay for this “benefit.” Notice I keep using quotation marks. That’s because I think the term is bullshit. I think a work-sponsored benefit should be something work provides. Yeah, maybe they got a “deal” to offer insurance to employees for lower than it’d cost to buy for ourselves, but come on. If work really wanted to call it a “benefit,” they should pay us more so the numbers even out on our take-home. We’re forced into these situations, yet employers have the nerve to use a term that implies they’re offering some special bonus to us.

Okay, enough ranting for now. No, wait - prescriptions! That’s another health-related cost that isn’t deducted, that I still have to pay for, despite having insurance.

The screws keep tightening around us workers and there’s no escape. I really hope Mamdani sparks inspiration across the country, because this shit is untenable.

It's much worse because you can choose not to watch Netflix but you don't have much choice if you are sick.

It's more like receiving a bill for songs you hear on the radio in the grocery store, on the bus, in other people's cars passing by. You didn't ask for the benefit, could not really negotiate it, but it was useful to you when you got it. You could maybe avoid it by not leaving your house.

Americans are amazing. Their healthcare system is literally killing them and ruining their families, and they keep talking about how bad "socialism" is...

The amount of bullshit this people buy is incredible.

I stopped paying for health insurance years ago, no way I can afford it now. I just get it through my state system.

Just imagine living in a first world country where they provide free Netflix instead of maintaining an insanely large military.