I make a good living but it’s hard to get ahead. I hurt my knee a few years back and I need surgery. But I can’t afford to drop a few grand that I might need for my kids, rent, car etc. And I can’t take the time off work.
So my health has declined because of pain, financial stress, inability to work out the same way… etc.
So yeah my health has suffered and I’ve probably Shaved 2-3 years off my life span. If I had lower cost healthcare, more social safety net, and better job security… I would’ve fixed up my knee years ago and my quality of life would be up. Simple.
A lot of my peers in their 30s either don’t have health insurance or can’t afford the health insurance they do have. They’re foregoing most or all preventive healthcare visits because it’s too expensive. It’s going to catch up with a lot of us in our 40s and 50s.
Not to mention that healthcare costs for our elderly parents will likely wring them of their entire net worth before they’re allowed to die, so we don’t have any kind of inheritance to look forward to either. The US health system is seriously fucked
The US has the world’s highest public healthcare spending per capita and the world’s second-highest private healthcare spending. In return they rank among mid-income countries when it comes to things like longevity and infant mortality.
The way a lot of middle class kids stay middle class or even move up is by getting a nice inheritance from their parents. But with the cost of healthcare and just like nursing homes and shit is gonna eat that all up and a ton of people are gonna be getting nothing and subsequently become downwardly mobile
the latest horror is medicaid estate recovery, where people who have nothing but their house die and their kids get nothing because the state repossesses it to “pay for” coverage. so health benefits are now a loan apparently
the recent chapo with Libby Watson goes into detail
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A lot of my peers in their 30s either don’t have health insurance or can’t afford the health insurance they do have. They’re foregoing most or all preventive healthcare visits because it’s too expensive. It’s going to catch up with a lot of us in our 40s and 50s.
Not to mention that healthcare costs for our elderly parents will likely wring them of their entire net worth before they’re allowed to die, so we don’t have any kind of inheritance to look forward to either. The US health system is seriously fucked
The US has the world’s highest public healthcare spending per capita and the world’s second-highest private healthcare spending. In return they rank among mid-income countries when it comes to things like longevity and infant mortality.
Americans are being ripped off.
I was thinking about this the other day.
The way a lot of middle class kids stay middle class or even move up is by getting a nice inheritance from their parents. But with the cost of healthcare and just like nursing homes and shit is gonna eat that all up and a ton of people are gonna be getting nothing and subsequently become downwardly mobile
the latest horror is medicaid estate recovery, where people who have nothing but their house die and their kids get nothing because the state repossesses it to “pay for” coverage. so health benefits are now a loan apparently
the recent chapo with Libby Watson goes into detail