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I fucking hate American healthcare.
Someone at my son's pediatrician office let slip that his Covid/flu combo test would've only cost $50 if they wouldn't have run it through insurance.
Naturally, I asked why they didn't just call and tell me that before they ran it through insurance so I could have saved some money.
Her response was "because that would be defrauding the insurance company."
I blew the fuck up on her. To this day, that bill for like $259 for a Covid/flu test hasn't been paid.
What the hell kind of test was it? The boxes of tests only started costing money within the last, I dunno, 1-2 years here in Canada and they don’t even cost that much, only about $20CAD.
Ya’ll literally live in a hellhole with paintjob. It’s like an apartment that looks pretty nice until you realize that the landlord just painted over all the mold on the walls and crossed their fingers that the water leak wasn’t gunna show up until it was at least too late.
Anyway, I’m sorry that you get robbed by the very institutions claiming to be helping you.
We're really not a rich country. We just have a bunch of ultra wealthy people who skew the numbers to make us look rich.
The average family in my state makes a combined income of about $60,000 USD/year.
I'm lucky that my wife is high up in state government and makes that much herself.
$60k USD and needs to give a lot of that to private companies, greedy and unregulated landlords, and quite often to the automotive industry just to barely survive. That or they go live somewhere cheap only to also not be paid well or even find a job at all and then get trapped because they don’t have the money to leave.