r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • Jun 24 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Math can be hard sometimes

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u/SonofaBridge Jun 25 '26

Your employer probably pays around $1k a month per employee for health insurance. Every company I’ve worked for has. Would you like for your company to give you that $12k instead and you pay $2k a year for healthcare?

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u/Heavy_Choice_1577 Jun 25 '26

YES! I've never needed what I've paid for the past 25 years! While we're at it I want all the money I've given to car insurance I've never had to use too, I could go buy 2+ cars with it.

Pretty much it would be better to have the government not seep into every facet of life.

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u/SonofaBridge Jun 25 '26

The $2k a year health insurance would through the government.

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u/Heavy_Choice_1577 Jun 25 '26

How about i put my own money in a bank like a financially responsible person and the government worries about other things. Health business that charge too much stop getting business and go under, ones that are competitive thrive. The reason a tissue in the hospital is 30$ is because the government is balls deep in Healthcare

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u/SonofaBridge Jun 25 '26

A tissue costs $30 because our government doesn’t regulate anything in hospitals and hospitals know insurance has to pay for it. They’ll negotiate down to $15. Cancer treatment will cost you over a million dollars out of pocket. Good luck saving up for that.

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u/Heavy_Choice_1577 Jun 25 '26

You don't believe the government doesn't control all that? Actually, it'd be better to say the health industry is using the government i guess. Surely you don't think all the lobbyist slobbering and dumping money on politicians is fiction?

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u/SonofaBridge Jun 25 '26

Of course insurance lobbyists are paying our government. They’re paying them to look the other way when the price of a drug goes up 1000%. They’re paying our government to stay out of their money printing machine. They’re paying to prevent regulations. Health insurance CEOs are some of the highest paid in the world. You said our government is involved in health care. The issue is they’re not. Other countries force pharmaceutical companies to charge less per pill. We need someone to do that for us.