Thank you for the detailed answer, Sophia. It's kindda amazing, in my eyes, to see what the situation is like. We have here a totally different health program here.

ION - I got a very part time job thingy as a reader for a blind person. I hope it'll go well.

There Medicaid- for older people and disabled, and Medicare, which is for low income qualified people, but that is considered more "aid" than insurance

Scratch that, reverse it. (Medicare = senior citizens & disability; Medicaid = poor people.)

I see.

It is a truly wackadoo "system" that is all about money and luck, and being sick can disqualify you from coverage. Because sick people don't need medical care, right??

Also, my mother was saying that my grandmother can probably get hospice care under Medicare and still see her current doctors, etc, (did you know hospice isn't necessarily just for the very end of life??) and I was like, "OH! Death panels!!" My mother was like, WTF. I'm pretty sure that kind of thing was what they meant by death panels, right?

WTF. I'm pretty sure that kind of thing was what they meant by death panels, right?

Actually, I think they were thinking of this when they were thinking of Death Panels. Guess they forgot that the Texas Advanced Directives Act of 1999 was signed into law by George W. Bush.

I'd like to think that getting health services is a basic right for everyone. I can understand that the U.S. relates it to your ability to work as a kind of a strange incentive, but I always thought that the formula was "you need to be healthy in order to get a job", and not "you need to get a job in order be healthy".

but I always thought that the formula was "you need to be healthy in order to get a job", and not "you need to get a job in order be healthy".

Here, that's considered Crazy Socialist Talk.

I'd like to think that getting health services is a basic right for everyone.

Yeah, so would I.

See above.