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[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

Unless I had already reached my annual deductible, that is.

"Hey good news! After about 35% of your annual income is spent on medical bills on top of your triple digit monthly premiums... That health insurance starts to kick in!"

(Until it resets at the end of the year. Teehee!)

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The deductible system is ridiculous.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

It truly is amazing how an entire industry makes billions by literally avoiding delivering the most basic service it's paid for at every possible turn.

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

The extra ridiculous thing is how they deny services that a doctor says are medically necessary… and not even in a reasonable way, in an abusive way. Like the system that automatically denies 60,000 things an hour or whatever, and count on people wasting tons of time to challenge it. Or when they have an ophthalmologist review your kidney disease and say that some treatment isn’t warranted. And that’s even after you’ve paid your stupid deductible costs for the year.

[-] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

This is not even good capitalism. Capitalism was intended to provide efficient solutions through competition. This is an oligopol secured by generous bribes

this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
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