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Celerity

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8. No other advanced nation would accept what Americans do in terms of the wealth extraction

Fri Dec 31, 2021, 07:19 PM

Dec 2021

via the rapacious for-profit US healthcare system.

It boggles my mind how even so many of poor or lower, lower middle class just accept it, or, in the truly brainwashed cases, adamantly fight changing it.

I see the pro big pharma/insurance/hospital doctor bullshit lying, fear-mongering adverts whenever I watch US cable streams. All of those would be not even exist in any other advanced nation. They would not be needed, and even if there was small niche they could aim for, those adverts would not be allowed in their American format because they lie.

Gaslit nation.

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Here's what the new ban on surprise medical billing means for you [View all] Jilly_in_VA Dec 2021 OP

I take it the uninsured are still unprotected ./nt bucolic_frolic Dec 2021 #1

Yes. Celerity Dec 2021 #2

Not only that, but they have to pay all their medical bills for the full amount. marie999 Dec 2021 #5

No other advanced nation would accept what Americans do in terms of the wealth extraction Celerity Dec 2021 #8

Thanks, Jilly Hekate Dec 2021 #3

lol. I wonder if that's why I received a surprise dental bill yesterday ecstatic Dec 2021 #4

I had surgery where the doctor and the hospital was in-network, the anesthesiologist was not. Midnight Writer Dec 2021 #6

Excellent. Ms. Toad Dec 2021 #7

Good to know. smirkymonkey Dec 2021 #9