I Am Getting An EGD (Esophogogastroduodenoscopy) Tomorrow While Many Others Who Need One Will Not

[mrmpa]

19. I've been seeing this for the past 2 years...........

in 2014 insurance would cost me (single) $300 a month, with a deductible of $6500, so this was $9500 a year before insurance would pay anything, more than 2/3 rds of my income.

in 2015 insurance was about $150 a month with a $7500 deductible so this was $9300 a year before insurance now that was nearly 50% of my gross income.

I had no coverage those 2 years and neither did I have it in 20012 or 20013. The funny thing was that in 2014 I was eligible for medical assistance under federal guidelines, but we had an f'ing republican governor who did not expand medical assistance.

In the past 2 weeks I became eligible for medical assistance (we have a democrat governor, who expanded medicare) and have insurance for the first time in 4 years.

It's not the cost of insurance premiums, but what the consumer has to pay in deductibles that makes it unaffordable.