• FReddit@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have cancer and diabetes, and aside from the premiums insurance costs me a minimum of $4,250 every fucking year, plus stuff they refuse to cover.

    And I found out the hard way that you’re better off dead than getting air medivacced, a delightful experience I’ve had twice.

    The first time I told the ER head to just let me die. The cost of a hundred mile flight was over $80,000.

    The second time, this February was over $143,000, but by then I had gotten air transport insurance. Which of course initially denied the claim.

    In the U.S. you are just meat that is harvested for money.

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      by then I had gotten air transport insurance. Which of course initially denied the claim.

      Leave it to the ridiculous American insurance system to invent an insurance package for something so obscure and specialized that almost nobody would ever need it, collect your premiums, and have them still refuse to pay out a claim when someone does try to actually use it.

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        “Well, he probably didn’t need to be airlifted because of… what was it again?”

        “His car was hit by a car and went down the side of a mountain into an area that they couldn’t get to by road.”

        “Right, he probably didn’t need to be airlifted because of that. He just chose to get airlifted.”

        — air transport insurance, probably

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      1 year ago

      For that kind of money I would start a new life in a normal country and have decent healthcare.

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        1 year ago

        Back when I was on reddit I had seen few people who had left america for other countries mainly in the Europe region because america is a shithole

        • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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          I’m seriously considering it when I finish university. I love the idea of freedom etc, but the reality of such a system is hell on earth.