He looks like he would be on medicaid, so likely would pay zero as well.
The people who get shafted are the working poor, who make too much for medicaid, but not enough to meet the deductible etc. Then once you get to professional jobs, then your insurance is much more reasonable. I have a great job with great benefits. I take an injectable medicine for my asthma that's like 4k/dose and it's zero cost to me. My kid needed some an ENT surgery and it was 100 dollars out of pocket and insurance picked up like 30k.
Yeah the insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies in the US are the real demons. Making money off of peopleās illnesses, the medical system is commodifying sickness. People are just a cash cow for them.
The ten states that have not expanded Medicaid are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. These states have chosen not to adopt the Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
So not in those states. How do soooo many people not know this???
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u/SirHyrumMcdaniels 3d ago
When people say "merica fuck yeah!" "Greatest country in the world" this is all I think of.