Not me. I pay massive cash and my employer pays even more than that, and the company in question is one of the five biggest in the US, and yet when I want to get my annual checkup, the doctor basically takes my blood pressure, listens to my chest, pokes me in the liver and then sends me to a lab, where I have to wait an hour or more and pay another copayment and then wait a couple more weeks to hear the results. Never mind that my doctor has his own lab onsite. This is the same company that wouldn't pay for my wife to have a mammogram citing pre-existing condition. What pre-existing condition, I hear you cry, could possibly be a criterion for deying a TEST to see if you MIGHT have breast cancer or some other problem? Having breasts is a pre-existing condition? And now I find out all this hassle and all this denial of service is so they can save money to lobby Congress and run advertisements on teevee to convince me that everything is fine the way it is. Yeah, fuck no it's not. My daughter *does* have a pre-existing condition so she'll never have real medical coverage in her life, unless there's some kind of plan coming from Congress. And part of the money I pay to my insurer goes to lobby Congress to ensure there will never be a change. Again, y'know what, fuck them and their goddamn advertising and their goddamn lobbying; their job is to, within reason, ensure I get to see a doctor and that I don't die from something stupid. It is NOT their job to make obscene profits and shovel cash into the pockets of shareholders who couldn't possibly give a fuck about some little girl who won't ever have health insurance. So fuck them all to Hell.
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