Health care IS NOT A RIGHT! Can’t pay the doc? NOT my problem. Don’t force me to pay!
I think Texas should not just look at dropping Medicaid and CHIPS but follow through with ending both programs. It’s not MY responsibility to pay for someone else’s medical care with my taxes. It’s high time to end the welfare state as we know it and hopefully Texans have the cajones to follow through with this proposal. If the welfare-sucking slugs don’t like it, let them leave the state to we Texans not frightened by hard work and doing things on our own.
I have “health insurance”. I pay $271.00 a month, my employer pays $271.00 a month.($542.00 is paid towards my insurance every month)
My deductable is $2000.00 before any insurance benefits kick in. After I pay an additional $2000.00 cash for services rendered, my insurance company just might pay 80% of charges, untill I pay $5000.00 in actual cash, in any one calender year.
I can't be certain how much my insurance will cover, because my doctor refuses to tell me in advance how much he will actually charge for his service.
But I can not really schedule any appointments unless I have at least $2000.00 cash saved up to pay for my insurance deductable.
Otherwise, I won't be allowed to be seen by the doctor's assistant.
OTOH, If I didn't have an insurance policy, and had to pay cash for medical treatment, the same doctor would charge double the rate he charges patients who have insurance.
Cash paying customer Charged $460.00 for an office visit,visual exam, and taking two skin biopcies.
My real cash cost so far for services rendered, $206.73.
I do not know how much the lab is going to charge me for reading the results of my biopsy.
I am still awaiting the bill.
YOU do not pay jackshit for my healthcare, or lack thereof.
YOU actually jacked up my cost for healthcare, because
YOU ignorantly think the Doctor has an actual set price for his services.
YOU don't appear to care that there is no real way to actually shop around for the best healthcare practitioner.
YOU appear to be content with an arbitrary system, that YOU pay extra for, one entirely divorced from actual cost/benefit ratios.