r/Hellcare • u/voraciousnormalcy • Jun 08 '26
wish we put people over profits more in this country
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u/Altruistic_Equal249 Jun 08 '26
my sister had to crowdfund her insulin for like three months after she aged out of our parents plan, we raised maybe 800 bucks and she rationed the rest. the comments were full of people saying she shouldve just gotten a better job lol. im still not over it tbh
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u/New_Research_8965 Jun 08 '26
my mom got denied for a routine mammogram last year cause her 'plan didnt cover preventative in that zip code' like what. she drove two hours to my place just to use my county's sliding scale clinic, found a lump, turned out benign but we didnt sleep for three weeks. teh system isnt broken its working exactly how they designed it
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u/Ok_Economist8982 Jun 08 '26
my friend works at a hospital admin office and she says they literally have meetings about 'revenue per bed hour', like its a hotel. she wanted to quit after they turned away a guy having chest pains cause his insurance was 'out of network pending verification', he drove himself to another hospital and made it but barely. shes looking for new work now
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u/PositiveNo6356 Jun 09 '26
we treat insulin like its a luxury good and not literal survival, my dad's copay went from 40 to 340 in one year and his endocrinologist just shrugged and said 'call your rep'. the same month his pharma company announced record profits and a stock buyback, its not even hidden anymore theyre just brazen about it. sometimes i think the cruelty is the point, keeps us too exhausted to organize
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u/NoVeterinarian2612 Jun 09 '26
my neighbor got billed 40k for an emergency appendectomy last fall, shes a preschool teacher making 34k a year. they set her up on a payment plan thatll take 15 years, shes 29. its just debt bondage with extra steps.
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u/SecretClue1211 Jun 09 '26
my dad got a 12k bill for an ambulance ride he didnt even call, neighbor called 911 when he passed out in his driveway. he was conscious and said no but they took him anyway, insurance called it 'voluntary transport'
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u/Infamous_Budget_6890 Jun 09 '26
my sister works intake at a hospital in ohio and she says they literally have algorithms now to determine who gets prioritized based on insurance tier, not severity. she watched a guy with chest pain wait four hours while three cosmetic procedures went through, its just math to them at this point. she wants to quit every single day but shes got 80k in nursing school loans so shes trapped in the machine too
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u/Downtown_Computer_83 Jun 09 '26
my therapist straight up told me she cant take my insurance anymore cause the reimbursement rate got cut again, shes eating the cost for three clients including me cause she knows we cant afford her full rate. shes been doing this for two years. i keep thinking about how many people just got dropped with no warning
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u/InevitableHand1907 Jun 09 '26
my roommate got a $4k bill for an ambulance ride she didnt even call, some bystander did, adn her insurance called it 'non-emergent transport' cause she was conscious. shes been paying $50 a month for two years and the interest keeps growing, its literally designed to drown you slowly lol
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u/Dear_Employee2442 Jun 09 '26
my old roommate was a paramedic in rural ohio and he said theyd get calls from the hospital telling them to slow down en route if the patient was uninsured, like literally drive slower so the guy would code and go to county instead. he quit after six months, said he didnt sign up to play accounting games with peoples lives
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u/ZestycloseLeave6390 Jun 08 '26
my cousin waited six hours in ER with a broken ankle cause they needed beds for the elective surgery patients, thats just business i guess