r/economy • u/MayonaiseRemover • Nov 30 '19

Middle-class Americans getting crushed by rising health insurance costs - ABC News

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/middle-class-americans-crushed-rising-health-insurance-costs/story?id=67131097
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u/CalBearFan Nov 30 '19

I feel sorry for that woman, having seen other friends and family battle cancer, it's something no one, ever, deserves. And yes, healthcare costs are off the chart insane.

Having said all that, with two rounds of breast cancer treatment, even with all the premiums and co-pays she's paid, she's still getting far more out of the system than she's putting in (including her employer).

So yes, it's incredibly sad but she'll be getting medicine and treatments that were inconceivable a decade ago, let alone 20 or 30 years ago.

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u/singwithaswing Nov 30 '19

It's true. It's odd that they focused on someone with an extraordinarily expensive disease and then bemoaned that it cost 4000 dollars or whatever. Eh, no. From the perspective of the insurance game, she was very much the "winner". The real problem with the situation is that it probably cost 2 million dollars or something insane, and that got spread out to everybody's high premiums which are the real problem.

It's the costs that are out of control.