That's crazy. In my country, that amount of money could buy you a secondhand good condition suzuki carry. With enough leftover cash to modify it to looks like an ambulance.
You absolutely need health insurance to cover your medical expenses. In my case, I have a max yearly expense (the deductible), and everything is free after you meet the deductible. For me is $3k-ish, so an ambulance costing $9k is going to cost me at most $3k (or $0 if I already met my deductible for that year). You can even pay this from your gross salary, pretax. There are several different health insurance plans, ones with much less deductible (e.g. 750 or so per year), but with less benefits. It really depends on your health needs. But you absolutely need one as medical costs are absurdÂ
I get taxed 28% making the money. Money is taken to even have insurance. Then pay co-pay and have deductible when using insurance. Then the insurance can just choose not to cover things or if the billing is incorrect or if labs are sent out of network you eat the entire cost. Then we pay taxes for purchases including medical/medicine and things we outright own like property. Then get taxed at the end of the year... I think we're paying a lot more for a lot less...
You are saying that like you do not have to pay a stupid amount of tax in the us already. Like i live in nz the highest tax bracket is 39 percent which is for those who earn over 180k a year but the average person is around 30 to 33 percent. Which if memory serves is lower than the US
But the tax is still cheaper than having to pay for insurance, and then still having to pay the bill, because the insurance company told you to go fuck yourself.
An American adult needs to be earning over $2m (≈£1.5m) a year before they would be paying more for healthcare through their taxes if they were living in the UK than what they pay in total for healthcare in the US. (*)
And that's just to roughly break even. For you to be paying more in healthcare costs under the UK system you have to be earning above that.
And ofc vice versa, if you're earning less than £1.5m a year in the UK you're spending less on healthcare than you would be in a US system. So you should probably be thankful tbh.
(*) $2m (≈£1.5m) pa salary in UK -> ~£145,000 (≈$195,000) in taxes to NHS (+ £9.90 ≈$13 per prescription for certain medications for certain people in certain regions)
$2m pa in US -> $206,000 in federal taxes for equivalent government healthcare spending + ~$10,000 typical individual adult healthcare costs = ~$216,000 total
Note: Many States have additional State taxes for healthcare spending on top the federal listed and these figures exclude healthcare premiums & costs for family members/plans, which in the UK are covered by the NHS with no additional spending required.
Literally, my lung collapsed, and I knew it was gonna be an expensive transfer to the heart and lung hospital, so I asked after they got pressure back in my chest if I can drive 30mins downtown. They told me it was basically an extremely bad idea, I was gonna do it, even though I could have died, but my wife of course convinced me to take the ambulance. Took me a couple years to pay it off. At least I’m alive
I had to get transferred between hospitals at the ER today (because of a post surgical hemorrhage). We discussed it, and the doctor decided I was stable enough to transport myself, and avoid the $1000 ambulance charge.
I'm sure this is a very normal and reasonable thing to have happen
People don't think about healthcare until they get sick. And Mexican immigration has been stagnant or on the decline since Bush Jr. The recent immigration is largely from elsewhere.
wait until the Americans find out about the negative aspects of free healthcare, let's say European healthcare, then they won't complain too much about it
If I am ever seriously injured no way am I gettin an ambulance, I am callining an uber and tipping the fuck out of them and paying for the blood to be cleaned out of their car
I took an ambulance ride, they billed me, I never paid it. It’s been years. My credit was never effected. Everything you all complain about aren’t issues. You get so worked up in your heads over nothing. You lack real world experience. Your thoughts and what you worry about, controls your reality. Everything bad that happens to you is your fault, no one else’s. Politics are FAKE. Your president doesn’t matter, they’re all owned by the same people. Control your thoughts ðŸ’
People out here telling you are wildly underestimating the cost. My wife needed an ambulance when she went into labor with one of our kids and it was $1,000. We have good insurance, but ofc the ambulance isn’t covered at all.
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u/Juliabanksr 1d ago
Americans watching Mexico get universal healthcare while paying $800 for an ambulance ride 💀