Except Walter White was a gubmint employee, so he had “Cadillac health insurance”. He would have to sell meth to pay the tax on it though.
Well, yes. And, there's also the bigger point (in terms of the show, not public policy) that he didn't start making meth in order to pay his medical bills - his goal was to leave something behind for his family after he died.
That is one thing I don’t get about the show. His insurance would have covered about 99% of his treatment. He is not the first school teacher to get cancer.
Yes, it would have left his kids in a bind. School teachers do not generally get Social Security, so there would not have been payments to the kids.
My dad had government retirement insurance. He was sick for years. I paid his bill.
There was a $75 co-pay. And a couple of other small bills for prescriptions.
And this included a kidney transplant, radiation therapy, a stent in his other kidney, two helicopter rides, and a plethora of other hospital stays and procedures.
I am thankful for the care he received. He could have afforded to pay more, and I was a little embarrassed that he did not.