2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: $626.43 [View all]Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Sorry to hear about your health issues. One of my best friends is a breast cancer survivor who would seem to have similar issues as you do (although it is hard to tell from just that post).
She gets her insurance through Healthcare.gov (a silver plan) and has had financial issues ever since she had to take time off due to her illness. She still has health problems due to reactions from the chemo.
She saves up money so she is ready for the first of the year and can max her deductible as quickly as possible. She still has a small copay for her prescriptions, but not much. Most are six bucks (unless I am mistaken).
The ACA has been a big help for her. I believe that a single payer would do even more. There are millions of Americans with health issues who need that help. I would gladly pay a bit more to see that happen.
It isn't just my friends, family and neighbors that I worry about though. I worry about the homeless. How does someone without an address or any identification receive coverage, even through Medicaid? These are the most vulnerable among us. I still feel that it is fair to judge a society by how it treats it's most vulnerable members. By that measure, the one industrialized country in the world that does not provide health care as a right fails miserably.