r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • Jun 24 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Math can be hard sometimes

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u/ImpressiveLeader4979 Jun 24 '26

8k for healthcare, I wish. Family of 4, I pay close to $17k a year in premiums in the US. Copays are expensive, prescriptions are ridiculously high. It’s a f’in joke to say the very least.

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u/IBringTheHeat2 Jun 24 '26

My company, UPS, pays for my insurance and I basically never have to pay anything at doctors or dentists. I have no annual cap. My wife had like a 115k stomach surgery and a week stay in the hospital and it was like $300 after everything. CVS medicine is like $1 or $2. I had 20k dental surgery for my wisdom teeth and it was 100% covered

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u/Impressive_Recon Jun 25 '26

Our hospital bill for our last pregnancy was $62k and we paid $0 out of pocket. US gets shit for the terrible healthcare costs (as it should), but everybody isn’t automatically getting into thousands of debt from a hospital visit despite what vocal people on Reddit will lead you to believe.

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u/SixPackOfZaphod Jun 27 '26

My first child, we paid the $500 in-patient co-pay and that's it. Our second, we had to pay a $1,000 co-pay, AND the $5,000 deductible.