Я все вспоминаю статью в журнале Тайм о медицинских услугах и их стоимости, помните, была весной, и много обсуждалась на Привете. Я помню, что меня тогда заинтересовала вот эта часть статьи.
When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie’s father had been treated there 10 years earlier, and she and her family credited the doctors and nurses at MD Anderson with extending his life by at least eight years.
Because Stephanie and her husband had recently started their own small technology business, they were unable to buy comprehensive health insurance. For $469 a month, or about 20% of their income, they had been able to get only a policy that covered just $2,000 per day of any hospital costs. “We don’t take that kind of discount insurance,” said the woman at MD Anderson when Stephanie called to make an appointment for Sean.
Я помню меня еще тогда озадачило, каким образом люди не могли сопоставить уровень своей страховки и уровень того, какого лечения они ожидали в случае серьезной болезни.
Но в любом случае, разговоры о том, что индивидуальные страховки очень многие вещи не покрывают, были уже давно. Почему-то никто добровольно не менял эту ситуацию.
"If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part." Richard Feynman