I know exactly what you’re screaming about. After thyroid cancer, I now have to have yearly blood tests done and must see my endo for thyroid meds. Between those two alone, I don’t know how I’m ever going to get ahead because the costs of both is well over $1,000 and my deductible $1,500.
My doctor wanted me to have the followup scan for cancer markers last year but I was trying to dig myself out of debt at the time. Now I’m buried again with the latest yearly appointments. On top of it all, no one can tell me how much the scanning will costs.
If the government had stayed out of this in the first place, if HMO’s and the lot hadn’t been implemented, AND market forces would have been allowed to work, (let’s also not forget tort reform) I don’t think we’d see nearly the costs we have with our doctor bills or insurance.
And those people who don't pay anything, get “free” healthcare, because I pay for it, through my insurance premiums and my taxes.
But I still can't afford to be seen by a doctor.
Obomacare just makes it more burdensome on me to pay for everyone else.
But as an Atlas, I am going to shrug.
I can carry some of the burdens of my fellow citizens for a short time, when they need a little help.
I refuse to carry the entire world on my shoulders.