The big objective is to prevent people showing up at emergency rooms with horrible problems that require them being admitted, such as my pneumonias. We were able to defeat them with antibiotics and bed rest, which left my doctors at National Institutes of Health dumbfounded. We were quite happy with that, considering the horrible bugs that lurk in hospitals: hospitals are no places for sick people. It spreads costs over longer intervals in the hopes of avoiding sharper peaks by not having treatment: for example, by getting people in to healthier life-styles and monitoring problems, you might be able to avoid diabetes or heart problems and tremendously higher costs.
I have had a friend actually die from lack of health insurance, and another who would be dead if he weren't Native American enough to get enrolled insurance.
For me, my immune meds would cost approx $3,000 a month without insurance. Fortunately my situation is fairly simple and I just have the one condition, plus I'm covered under my wife's plan. My other health problems are trivial. Some people have what I have plus other immune disorders and are VERY complicated and expensive to treat! It's possible that I may degenerate to that point, crossable appendages are crossed.
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Date: 2017-07-30 10:03 pm (UTC)I have had a friend actually die from lack of health insurance, and another who would be dead if he weren't Native American enough to get enrolled insurance.
For me, my immune meds would cost approx $3,000 a month without insurance. Fortunately my situation is fairly simple and I just have the one condition, plus I'm covered under my wife's plan. My other health problems are trivial. Some people have what I have plus other immune disorders and are VERY complicated and expensive to treat! It's possible that I may degenerate to that point, crossable appendages are crossed.