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Comment by brandonmenc | Hacker News Reader

Every time there's a health care post people chime in with the useless comment, "this is really weird to those of us not in the USA."

Jeez, really? Wow.

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I agree with that. But, as a European, I also agree with the parent comment. It is weird in the sense that we could never think of something like that, things such as a "doughnut hole" where a few months a year you don't have an insurance.

I currently live and work in the US, love it, love the country. I have the chance to have a great plan thanks to my company. But i'm not sure how much more I can keep tacitly approving this system.

The doughnut hole isn't that weird, a coverage was expanded, with a limit on how far it was expanded. The limitation is on spending, not related to the calendar beyond that:

https://www.medicare.gov/part-d/costs/coverage-gap/part-d-co...

Of course once the annual limit is reached coverage is reduced for a period of time, but there will also be cases where the limit is not reached.

And while it doesn't compare favorably to a simpler to access program that covers all expenses, enacting it didn't make anybody that ends up using it worse off.

> I also agree with the parent comment

What's not to agree with? The parent comment is simply stating nothing more than a fact we're all well aware of - that we have a different system in the US.

Every time there's a health care post, people need to chime in with the comment, "this is really fucked up in the USA, they kill for profit."

It clearly is still necessary since HN still has it's libertarian extremists who can't believe that healthcare works vastly better under government run systems.

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