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I live in Minnesota and I have health insurance through my employer and I do not qualify for this program. It costs me over $200 just to walk in the door of the clinic. I recently had to get a CT scan and it cost me $1800. A fucking covid test cost $135, even though the state will mail them to me for free.
I don't make that much money. I can barely afford these bills. I'm a proud Minnesotan, but this post makes it seem like our healthcare is so much better than every other state, and I'm here to tell you that it most definitely is not
Yeah, that was my experience with employer-run healthcare in general before I left to start my own business. I was paying $200 monthly for a terrible, high-copay situation like that from my last employer when I broke my knee. My friend with zero insurance had the same injury so I went to his doctor and surgeon. Afterwords we compared our total bills and mine was barely any less than his cash-only bill. I felt robbed.
Would it make you feel better to know those with insurance often also pay a lot of money?
Does it make you feel better or worse to say that your employer is terrible?
Do you see any difference between you having a shitty employer and your state protecting citizens from the worst you have suffered?
So the bar was under the ground and it seems that Minnesota raised the bar to about 2 inches above ground. Not great, but better.
This is more a problem with your employers health insurance. Yes Minnesota healthcare is not perfect but if you're very low income, it's better than other states. MNsure certainly helped me a bit and provided free healthcare for awhile.
Turns out "better health care" is a pretty low bar in the US.
I'm not from USSA, but looking from afar it seems to be in its own 2x2x1.5.
Pretty low is an understatement. It's buried 10 feet deep.
Why would anyone bury feet?
Here is the punch on you dad joke card...