spontaneous expressions of mediocrity
13% of my annual income goes to providing health insurance to my family. This doesn’t include the money I pay to cover the portion of medical services my insurance doesn’t cover. Last year these costs exceeded $3,000. For those keeping track, medical costs for my family exceeded 18% of my annual income last year.
To help offset these costs, I do freelance work and play in two bands. I enjoy these things, but I rather not rely on them to avoid bankruptcy. For those of you who view universal health care as a step in the wrong direction, please take a closer look at where our health care system is right now.
It may also be wise for you to note that as little as two years ago, I was paying $120 per month to cover my family’s health insurance costs. If you are currently paying below $500 per month to cover your family, enjoy yourself while it lasts.
UPDATE: If you wouldn’t mind sharing, I’d be curious to hear what percentage of your annual income goes towards health insurance. If you need help with the math, the formula is:
annual health care cost ÷ annual income * 100
The people who are still in health care la la land and everything with them is all dandy need to see Michael Moores Sicko. http://www.sicko-themovie.com/
I used to be in la la land and hear some of my friends bitch and complain about their health care and I just didn’t get it. I really didn’t get it!! Now I get it.
Whenever I visit Taiwan, I am always warmed up when I see all the national health logos all over the place - just about every healthcare facility from the local pharmacy to the major hospitals have full coverage for every Taiwanese citizen. This country is founded on capitalism and free-wheeling democracy, and I don’t see anyone going broke or complaining over it. I would argue that the quality of healthcare in Taiwan surpasses the United States on an average level. Every time I’ve gone into a clinic, it has turned out to be free of charge, because I coming in as a foreigner presented the staff in both cases with a conundrum: “Hey this guy isn’t a citizen - we don’t really have a process for that”. So they smile and tell me not to worry about it. I don’t know if it is hospitality or what, but it’s a different feeling to those cases here where our pediatrician’s office was refusing to take appointments for our kids because my employer’s healthcare insurance provider refused to pay for my kids’ condition claiming it was ‘pre-existing’. (It wasn’t in the end, but they fought it tooth and nail, I think just because they were looking to screw with someone and our card was up…)
So yeah, please give us nationalized healthcare. What kind of a country doesn’t want to take care of its own citizens?
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