Ongoing clinical trial testing therapeutic in humans.

  • grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Join us in the frozen North. I was three months out from a “scope” to look for colon cancer and my GP had a consult with me on an unrelated matter. He made a frowny face and said “you need another scope”. I told him I just had one. He insisted. So I went. Was on an operating table about four weeks later. I would have been dead without that scope. I had no problem doing that first or second scope because they were “free” (I am guessing about $1300 a year goes from my taxes to health care, so not free, just a decent price considering I have colleagues in the US where that won’t even cover two months).

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      I am guessing about $1300 a year goes from my taxes to health care

      That is far less than the average American insurance plan and those include co-pays and deductibles. I hate living in the U.S.

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        My wife and I each pay a little into our work health plans but that’s mostly to cover dental and a few other things we really don’t use.

        Here’s an example of that coverage: I pay about $20 a month into my work plan. That covers pretty much all our dental work.

        I occasionally have to pay out of pocket for some stuff (CPAP machine, dental implant) but get compensated after submitting paperwork (no deductible).

        I worked in the US for a bit in a kitchen and was always worried about getting injured. At the time I couldn’t buy muscle relaxant over the counter which I thought was nuts (I get back spasms) until I realized requiring a prescription was one more was to squeeze people for a doctor’s visit.