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Ours is over $22,000 of debt, because our hospital doesn't want to admit there is a duplicate charge, and continues to refuse to send the substantiating claim paperwork to the insurance company to prove if it's as valid as they claim it is.

So because they refuse to either prove it's a valid charge or admit it is not, they will keep it on our credit report until we can afford to hire a lawyer. No one else will help us at this point. We're out of options. No matter what, their mistake is going to cost us a LOT of money, and all they have to do is keep ignoring us.

Do what you have to in order to keep your #NationalizedHealthCare , so you don’t end up like us.

For decades, American Big Pharma has been scheming to undermine Australia’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), which has given Australians access to some of the cheapest medicines in the developed world. Their goal? Higher profits at the expense of affordable healthcare. They’d love to see Australia adopt a US-style privatised system, where individuals are forced to pay exorbitant prices for the same medicines we get for just a few dollars.

#BigPharma #PBS #AffordableHealthcare #Australia #Medicare #HealthcareForAll #PharmaGreed #PublicHealth #Auspol #LNPfail

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-21/beh

ABC News · Behind America's decades-long fight to dismantle the PBSPar Ian Verrender

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About 20 years ago, I moved to Canada. I joked with my friends that I was coming to take advantage of the socialized health care system. They thought I was just escaping Cheney's second term. Truthfully, I just wanted a change of scenery—but that’s another story.

For a short time in the U.S., I had Kaiser Permanente insurance. Holy shit, what a rip-off. If I got sick, I had to drag myself to their shopping-mall-looking building in suburban Atlanta, see their doctor, and then pay again on top of it. So I quit.

Not long after, I had two trips to the emergency room that racked up a ton of debt. On the second visit, I was in so much pain I was screaming my guts out for five hours before a kind nurse finally shot me up with morphine.

Fast-forward to Canada: the system here isn’t perfect, but if I need to see a doctor, I just... go. My meds are dirt cheap. I’ve been to the hospital a few times—for myself or friends—and we’ve always been taken care of. My partner and I even accessed the fertility clinic in Quebec when we were trying to have a kid—now we have a kid!

Yeah, I pay high taxes. Yeah, the system has flaws. But the peace of mind I have knowing that as I get older, or as a parent, my people are covered and I’m not gonna go broke paying for medical bills? That’s fucking priceless.

I get it—there’s a contradiction in an anarchist praising a state-run system. And yeah, my Canadian anarchist friends love to complain about long waits. But compared to the nightmare down south? It’s no contest.

I do wonder, though—how would anarchists organize socialized health care? What would a non-state model look like? Would love to hear what @PeterGelderloos thinks about this.

Given the current national conversation about health care in the U.S., it seems like most folks are fed up too. Anywho, just wanted to share my two cents.

#PublicHealthCare should never be #monetized & #monopolized for profits. Doing so results in more avoidable deaths, disabilities & illnesses - it never results in better patient quality care. Monetizing #HealthCare makes it #inaccessible for majority of citizens who need it the most.

Fight all levels of government to keep public health care - public & fight for changes so that it is actually accessible to all citizens & not just the privileged.