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The US healthcare system is barbaric... (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everybody in this country needs to lift themselves up by the bootstraps and do what I did: have a chronic disease that is so ridiculously expensive to treat that the pharma company pays your deductible and out of pocket max for you so that you’ll stay on it. Then you get actual coverage for the rest of the year!

I’m a software engineer and my health insurance pays out significantly more than my gross pay every year. U-S-A!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I fell into this situation a couple years ago and I’m going to ride it as long as I can. The whole system of savings cards is so convoluted that it’s no surprise these kind of loopholes happen.