Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
by wbl on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @06:44PM
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No the fee for service system results in bills. It's the quarter on Kaiser that don't see bills.
Re:Interview with Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of Stack Overflow
by epistasis on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @08:37PM
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I never see bills from my employer based healthcare, and it's not anything super fancy, and it's not Kaiser, just BC/BS. I had a surgery that billed my insurance in the tens of thousands of dollars and I never saw a bill. My spouse sees bills but it's because she has her physician order tests that are a bit outside well established medicine that would never be covered by NHS in the UK or Health Canada.
My relatives on Medical never see bills.
It's not just Kaiser.
https://www.chcf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/HealthInsure...
Medicare and Medical are not going to see a bill ever (if the people I know on them are anything to go by), and that's almost 40% of the population. A huge majority of people on employer plans are in the same situation, so thats some fraction of the 47%. For example, nearly a quarter of Californians are covered by Kaiser. It's not some super rare privilege reserved for those making >$500k.