Every election, candidates on the right or left, discuss plans to make healthcare “better, more affordable and accessible,” yet today in America, 15 percent of our population has no health insurance, at a time when costs are rising.
Even with health insurance, they pick what gets covered, and what does not. Necessary treatments and medications may not be covered for reasons entirely their own.
In this case, after falling down a set of stairs at home, out of pocket, without insurance discount, it cost almost $880 for admission, x-ray, sling and $4 for Advil.
Just like any college student, of course I had such money in my account with nothing better to do with it; it was not like I would need it to pay for school or such.
After a year I did get it paid off, learning there is nothing like having no insurance to see how bad it really is.
Yet, this is hardly all that miserable in comparison, many people endure far worse, remaining chronically ill only for lack of funds.
There are options provided by state and federal government only if you can prove you cannot afford healthcare from a major provider; and who does that benefit?
Certainly not you and me, not to mention problems that under-funded and overworked state programs have to deal with.
To be sick in America, or anywhere, should not be a privilege. Illness and injury are facts of life.
What we need in this country right now, no matter the party in office, is health care for everyone. It could be a Universal Single Payer plan, much like what they have had in Europe for many years.
Or working with insurance to infuse more taxpayer money into reducing health care costs. When everyone has some level of healthcare, we all win.
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