2:40 'Murican Health"care" System: "You got the money?" Mouse: "F*ck yeah, I got the money! You got the stuff, pendejo?!??!!?" Edit: Glad I could give everyone a laugh! Thanks, for the 1.3K+ likes!!!
I know right. Every time I see a title on the thumbnail about health I just want to give her a big hug, and tell her I get it. I’m so glad she can afford her healthcare now.
@@Halesnaxlors Very safe. Been doing it twice weekly for just over 5 years now. Goooooood bit of pocket change too for sitting in a chair for 2h/week and reading a book.
@@TheLetterNate dang you must have a nice place. All the plasma places around me are like an hour wait just to check in, and they're always rotating phlebotomists so high chances of getting a gnarly hematoma bump, sticks in both arms as they try to get a good line, or nasty bruises that make you ineligible to donate for weeks until the bruise finally fades enough. That was my husband's experience. I tried to donate for a while but 50% of the time they had to give up because my veins are just too deep/tricky for it apparently and they ended up putting me on their ineligible list lol.
I remember when I was young, I thought one of my aunts was just absolutely loaded with money. Her husband had gotten a really, really bad medical condition and they sued the company responsible for it and ended up having to pay them half a million dollars a year for the rest of his life but despite that, they barely got by because his medical bills were so insane. Half a million a year, and living like they were in poverty because of the medical bills. Absolutely crazy.
That is so fking insane... I'd say move to Canada, but honestly, the best doctors go where all the money is and its NOT inside our country. I'm grateful to all the medical professionals of all levels who stay in country to work, but its well known here that if you REALLY want the best care, you save up and go down south to the USA to pay out of pocket from the "better doctors" who went down south for better pay. :|
Funny enough that would actually be spending less money than the US already spends on healthcare. The Military is like 880 Billion or so. Healthcare expenditures from the government is around 1.3 trillion.
A common misconception. The issue with the US Healthcare system isn't funding it's mismanagement and lobbying. If the US government cleaned up it's healthcare system it would offer better outcomes and cost less money because of how much rorting, red tape and lobbying gets wasted on the system. In fact if the US did this it would have the worlds best healthcare. I imagine the US military has far higher standards for it's equipment because it can't afford a battlefield system failure. Say what you want about the military-industrial complex but it's products and services actually work as intended and face strict regulation by government. Maybe try implementing some of that regulation into healthcare.
@@ninjashot37As a veteran, I can confirm that "Military Issue" is some of the cheapest, low quality garbage you can find. Why? Because the DoD doesn't care about the service members, it only cares about it's bottom line, and how many congressmen can line their 401K's with donations from these defense contracts.
@@meirin5316 I mean idk I never had a problem with mine mate. I stayed in hospital, have a scheduled surgery, did some dental treatments, all covered. Besides, it's not a Europe vs America fight, it's a fuckin human life vs money fight, regardless of geographic location.
American Health Insurance is BS. The Agent LIED to my mom claiming it wouldn't cost her more money and everything would be covered, ehich was a LIE!! She did it for 4 months and is STILL paying shit off MONTHS later!!
Reagan should've remained an actor, because the consequences of him becoming a president are felt severely today and in the future. Frakked up thing is... this has now happened twice. And the consequences of this clown will be felt even more. Reaganomics absolutely destroyed the medical system in the US.
@@lordzaboem Sadly no, they're instructed to tell you anything they need to to make a sale. Unless you specifically ask them they don't tell you that NOTHING they say is binding.
To be fair, ironmouse is an exceptional case. Her treatment would probably cost more than a house in any country, it's just a question of whether that's being paid entirely by one person or a tiny bit by everyone.
God the healthcare scene here is nuts. Thankfully my condition is covered, unthankfully said condition disqualifies me from donating plasma. Good luck Mouse 🙏
It definitely is. But from what I understand chronic conditions aren’t exactly well treated in other countries. At least you can get treatment here if you have money. In other countries you may not even get treatment
@@Jack_Ss Not really true, at least for EU countries you get free medication for all chronic conditions without much issues. My aunt has a severe condition, she has to take like 15 pills a day and go to rehab 4 times a week, but we never paid a single cent for any of that.
@@Jack_Ssnah if you have life threatening things going on you’ll always get treatment in other countries. What takes longer is “elective “ procedures . They don’t just let people die in other countries 😂😂😂😂. We need to socialize our healthcare like……today
Many things started off as fiction but later came to fruition. Things like credit cards, television and the 1969 lunar landing. Bionic limbs, military tanks, antidepressants and submarines emerged from sci-fi, too. @@adish1401
I've been donating platelets more than the other items but I may see about swapping to plasma instead: because I can only donate with a single arm it takes hours to go through the platelet donation process, which makes it hard for me time and stress wise (lots of travel, have to do it after work, body gets sore after laying on the chair for up to two or three hours) so I've been donating a lot less over the last two years. Plasma isn't as fast as donating blood but it's a lot shorter from my experience.
The more people that petition and fight for that, the more likely it'll be to happen. Write to your government and ask them why these Human Rights AREN'T guaranteed to everyone. (also disability pay is less than $1,000/mo in most usa states if you want more ammo. rent alone is $600-$900 at a minimum in most states.)
That's how you get parasites who refuse to work. Obviously doesn't apply to mouse but these systems are slow, beurocratic, and doomed to crumble under their own weight, especially with borders being wide open.
Alright then genius, who's gonna pay for everything? We have 340,000,000+ million people in this Country. Please , enlighten me how your plan now how you're going to fund these services?
It's not just medicine, I work in the general storeroom of a hospital and order the non-pharm supplies for several wards. Supplies are crazy tight and things are constantly going on backorder and we're having to go 3 or sometimes more substitutes deep.
1:40 Yeah I am surprised that mouse has managed to even find one , just because she has a pre-existing condition. Some insurance companies just flat out reject you. The moment she switch companies, there are benefits you will not get back , because you have the illness already .
If any of you are interested, please do donate plasma. There are places that do aphresis. You just lay down and have your blood circulate into machine that takes the plasma instead of the whole blood and then pump it back into you. It takes more time but you just lay there and read a book or watch an episode or two on your phone. And it's a nice experience to feel cool blood being pumped back into you.
@@ruukinen Well it takes longer for the body to recreate blood lost from our body from the normal method. And this elicits a different response from each donor, from tiredness to lightheadedness to full on nausea. After the aphresis process, its much much easier for the body to replenish the plasma content so that you dont have to deal with that. Also, you will be back to full health faster.
Can 100% relate to the list of conditions & meds. I'd be utterly fucked if I had to get health insurance, but thankfully I live in the UK! Glad Mouse can afford decent insurance, just wish everyone could... or that the system wasn't fucked up and broken.
as a Canadian our healthcare and insurance is income based. like as a disabled person I'm not allowed to save more than $5000 and I'm not allowed to make more than $18,000 a year. so I imagine all of Mouse's success is why she had to change insurance and things. glad things are going good for her
For American Insurance it's funny because you're not paying for them to pay your bills. You're paying for their lawyers. They call you and you refuse to pay? Well more than likely you'll lose the case if you have to go to court. But an insurance company? They've got lawyers for days that can stretch that out. So ultimately the hospital would rather drop the price by 90% than have to go through all of that + Legal Fees. In this regard, that's how insurance companies can stay in the green despite it seeming like they're paying more than what they cost. Things settle for way less.
I've recently been able to donate plasma due to personal reasons and the locations make it so difficult now to donate. The places I try to donate to are cancelling my appointments for some reason or another. I've had to give up on donating
I try and donate plasma at least twice a month, it's rough because I have high blood pressure and it disqualifies me most times I try to donate. But it's for a good cause and you get to make a bit of extra money to boot.
Yeah it's gotta be emotionally tearing you apart to be her parent, to find out again you could never afford the new insurance, and then have your kid pay for it too. It's messed up.
I had some stays at a psych ward a couple times in my life. Each stay (3-4) days racked up bills of up to $15k. Damn near every public service industry is predatory. Thank god I was covered. There was one bill where I wasnt but I had the option of giving the bill to charity. I can't imagine what the bill is for someone who HAS to stay in the hospital any longer than that. It may be against medical advice to leave early, but that doesnt matter when you have so much debt you might as well be dead.
Friend who couldn't afford dental work went to Colombia and got her teeth removed. Just all pulled out, dentures instead. That's where the system is at. She's in her 30s.
Iron mouse you are such an inspiration and so funny. Hope you start feeling better. I couldn’t even imagine having to pay health insurance thank god I’m British.
To donate plasma is to donate blood here in Brazil. The blood banks can choose what to do with the donations. If there's a demand for plasma, they put the blood into a centrifuge and separate it from the blood.
Wait...Dental Insurance and Medical Insurance are separate? :O Mousey needs the UK or the AU. Man we have the standard Government Health System and Private Insurance as an option on top. Anyway Wishing the very best for her this year. All the good stuff is available for her now.
Bruh, you should see how much an ambulance costs. Some people refuse to be seen by a paramedic and ride in the ambulance because it's so expensive. They'll send you a bill even if they show up and you refuse their service. Dental, medical, and vision are separate lol. The whole system is a scam.
@@infinitecurlie Yeah, got into a samll car accident a few year ago. The officer and paramedics tried so hard to get me to take the ambulance, but I absolutely refused it. I was a college student working 2 part time jobs, there was no way I could afford that shit. Still had to pay like $50, but I was atleast lucky enough to suffer no lasting damage
I gotta remember to use my dental insurance. Been 5 years since the last i went, and I have deep groves in my molars that they fill. Well, all that filling is gone, and cold things SUCK now, so I gotta go get that taken care of
Honestly good on her for getting good insurance, helped an american i know who doesnt have insurance figure out if the foot they suspect they broke was a medical emergency and they had to go to the hospital or if they could just wait and see if it would heal on its own without amy intervention because they couldnt afford to go to the hospital for it
Even someone with money like mouse, it still sounds like a hellscape in us style healthcare..... Can't imagine the stress and struggle people go through that can't afford it
I feel that, having to switch insurance and all the sudden the way you lived your life now costs so much more. I can't imagine what its like for someone like Mousey
I would still donate plasma but I can because I am recovering from Cancer and my pre-existing condition is Cerebral Palsy so I have a compromised immune system myself as a single disabled mom I wish I could help you mouse. I pray every day you get stronger and they get closer to a cure.
I sadly can't spend, I always had a fear but since I went to the mental hospital and it was something you HAD to do, I got used to it a bit. But I also always have to take Antimykotika, because I always get the infection from my cat when he scratches me :') I also have underfunction Schilddrüsen for over a year now TwT I really hope ya'll get better :( in my area quite some people donate tho! So that makes me feel less useless
Nowhere near as much of an issue that Mouse has, but I fight constantly for C-pap supplies that doctors say I absolutely need (I once stopped breathing 70 times within 1 hour while being tested on a sleep study) but because of one little hiccup, they 'lost' my insurance for 5 months and didn't say a word, just kept sending my supplies. Now I have a massive bill that they refuse to fix and expect me to pay. I just got really good at cleaning and sanitizing my equipment and the filters are cheap enough lol.
Hearing that there's a plasma shortage makes me so sad that I stopped donating the last two months, but the roads were so bad that they shut down the bus system
I feel so bad for americans. I have colitis, which is a chronic illness. Over time the patient becomes immune to the drugs we are given to treat it, so you have to switch medications. I am currently on biologics, the so called last line of medications before surgery - infliximab specifically which I get intravenously at my hospital. I checked and one monthly dose would cost around 1000 to 5000$ in the US. And I get double dose of it! All of this is covered by my insurance here, I don't have to pay any medication costs for it. My country is shit in a lot of aspects, our healthcare is far from perfect but it breaks my heart to think some people have to break bank to simply afford to stay alive. What an extremely cruel system.
Wow and dental, good for her. My whole teeth situation and only plan is that they all eventually fall out at the same time more less so that I can make a trip to Mexico and all in on some dentures.
Honestly, I just wish we could have an honest discussion in this country about it. It's only "socialize or not socializing" the system. It's never "hey, maybe the people in the system are corrupt." Or Maybe we can do a mixed system like Japan which has a majority of hospitals being privately owned, but has public insurance which covers I'm pretty sure 70% of the cost or more. They also have tight controls on pricing which are updated regularly: "The Japanese Health Ministry tightly controls the price of health care down to the smallest detail. Every two years, the health care industry and the health ministry negotiate a fixed price for every procedure and every drug." -NPR Of course, the question of avoiding strikes from underpaying doctors also comes up, but Japan apparently solved that in their last strike. But again, it's a lot of people yelling and a lot of nothing happening as the prices go up. Can't even try the simple point of price controls because it's either "not enough" or "too much."
Omfg I had to change insurance companies this year as well… it’s horrible. So many out of pocket expenses, where tf am I going to get my medications, why are my doctors out of network now? As somebody with a chronic illness as well… it’s exhausting.
I would totally understand if Ironmouse would say: "fuck this shit, I move to Wales" - because even the NHS in Britain has a better healthcare system. And don't worry, she would still pay, as she makes money with Vtubing - but much less as she is most likely paying in the USA right now.
The NHS is definitely NOT a better healthcare system. Sure the healthcare in the US has a lot of problems, but as hard as it can be to afford, you can get good care when you need it very quickly. In the UK, pretty much everyone ends up on months or even years-long waiting lists, because they have no incentive to make it any more efficient. Any sort of business run like that in the US would quickly go under, but being run by the government, the NHS can just do whatever the hell it wants and the english just have to put up with it, all while being heavily taxed for it.
@@vecghul2793 Yeah, I'm in the UK and while she'd be getting her daily medications and treatments for free she'd have to wait months or even years to see a specialist if anything goes wrong (outside of emergencies).
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2:40 'Murican Health"care" System: "You got the money?"
Mouse: "F*ck yeah, I got the money! You got the stuff, pendejo?!??!!?"
Edit: Glad I could give everyone a laugh! Thanks, for the 1.3K+ likes!!!
lmao
Murica unhealthcare.
We literally got more people to find ways to not cover you than actually process coverage
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Just called American's healthcare an "@rsehole" in spanish Lmao
Thanks for making me nearly spit my drink out. 🤣
As a person with a disability, I can totally relate to the "pre-existing conditions" stuff.
Go get'em Mousy!
I know right. Every time I see a title on the thumbnail about health I just want to give her a big hug, and tell her I get it. I’m so glad she can afford her healthcare now.
Over 500 plasma donations to date. Still waiting on the company to give me a little gold star.
i sadly cant donate plasma D:
Omg is that even safe? How often do you donate?
@@Halesnaxlors Very safe. Been doing it twice weekly for just over 5 years now. Goooooood bit of pocket change too for sitting in a chair for 2h/week and reading a book.
@@TheLetterNate dang you must have a nice place. All the plasma places around me are like an hour wait just to check in, and they're always rotating phlebotomists so high chances of getting a gnarly hematoma bump, sticks in both arms as they try to get a good line, or nasty bruises that make you ineligible to donate for weeks until the bruise finally fades enough. That was my husband's experience. I tried to donate for a while but 50% of the time they had to give up because my veins are just too deep/tricky for it apparently and they ended up putting me on their ineligible list lol.
@@TheLetterNateyou're a hero
I understand why people don't go to the doctors for years now.
I haven't I might have problems but I still don't intend
Welcome to America. We live in a dystopian hellhole
Best case scenario, you spend thousands of dollars over a few months to a few years for them to tell you you're perfectly fine.
@@Abion47 5 dollars is alot in my country so I'd rather not but you make a fair point
I don't because I almost never get sick. Longest streak was seven years. Current streak is two.
I remember when I was young, I thought one of my aunts was just absolutely loaded with money. Her husband had gotten a really, really bad medical condition and they sued the company responsible for it and ended up having to pay them half a million dollars a year for the rest of his life but despite that, they barely got by because his medical bills were so insane. Half a million a year, and living like they were in poverty because of the medical bills.
Absolutely crazy.
That is so fking insane... I'd say move to Canada, but honestly, the best doctors go where all the money is and its NOT inside our country. I'm grateful to all the medical professionals of all levels who stay in country to work, but its well known here that if you REALLY want the best care, you save up and go down south to the USA to pay out of pocket from the "better doctors" who went down south for better pay. :|
Hope everything goes well with her this year.
Me to hope everything goes well for her too
Ditto
@@karactr8361 nice to hear
new CRISPR method will help her fix her immune disease, the clinical studies are all very positive. So maybe in 4 years she can live a normal life
Only had to be one of the most successful streamers in the world to afford insurance!
The US government ought to fund its healthcare system in the same way it funds its military.
Nah that would make too much sense
Funny enough that would actually be spending less money than the US already spends on healthcare. The Military is like 880 Billion or so. Healthcare expenditures from the government is around 1.3 trillion.
A common misconception. The issue with the US Healthcare system isn't funding it's mismanagement and lobbying.
If the US government cleaned up it's healthcare system it would offer better outcomes and cost less money because of how much rorting, red tape and lobbying gets wasted on the system.
In fact if the US did this it would have the worlds best healthcare.
I imagine the US military has far higher standards for it's equipment because it can't afford a battlefield system failure. Say what you want about the military-industrial complex but it's products and services actually work as intended and face strict regulation by government.
Maybe try implementing some of that regulation into healthcare.
Pork-barrel politics and a ridiculous level of corruption?
@@ninjashot37As a veteran, I can confirm that "Military Issue" is some of the cheapest, low quality garbage you can find. Why? Because the DoD doesn't care about the service members, it only cares about it's bottom line, and how many congressmen can line their 401K's with donations from these defense contracts.
American insurance companies will try their hardest not to cover anything and will fight you when you do need to use it.
europe is the fckn same wdym??
You live in europe? @@meirin5316
@@meirin5316We have free healthcare
@@meirin5316 I mean idk I never had a problem with mine mate. I stayed in hospital, have a scheduled surgery, did some dental treatments, all covered.
Besides, it's not a Europe vs America fight, it's a fuckin human life vs money fight, regardless of geographic location.
@@meirin5316eh i heard ambulances, hospital stays, doctors visits in usa you have to pay for no? I never had to pay for any of these
American Health Insurance is BS. The Agent LIED to my mom claiming it wouldn't cost her more money and everything would be covered, ehich was a LIE!! She did it for 4 months and is STILL paying shit off MONTHS later!!
Insurance is so purposefully complicated that I wouldn't be surprised if the agent simply didn't understand it. Maybe no single person does.
US healthcare is set up like mobile game monetization
Reagan should've remained an actor, because the consequences of him becoming a president are felt severely today and in the future. Frakked up thing is... this has now happened twice. And the consequences of this clown will be felt even more. Reaganomics absolutely destroyed the medical system in the US.
What did you expect from a socialist nation like the U.S. if not astronomical costs & limitless corruption? that's just leftism in a nutshell.
@@lordzaboem Sadly no, they're instructed to tell you anything they need to to make a sale. Unless you specifically ask them they don't tell you that NOTHING they say is binding.
imagine having house buying out of pocket money, and still struggling with the medical bills. GOD BLESS 'MERICA
To be fair, ironmouse is an exceptional case. Her treatment would probably cost more than a house in any country, it's just a question of whether that's being paid entirely by one person or a tiny bit by everyone.
People flex about having cars, houses, jewerly,... Ironmouse is flexing her health insurance 😂😂😂
As she should
In the US, having good health insurance is a flex for most people tbh.
She usually brushes it off with a smile but it's really tough to deal with. I wish Mousey nothing but success with her endevours and her health.
God the healthcare scene here is nuts.
Thankfully my condition is covered, unthankfully said condition disqualifies me from donating plasma.
Good luck Mouse 🙏
It definitely is. But from what I understand chronic conditions aren’t exactly well treated in other countries. At least you can get treatment here if you have money. In other countries you may not even get treatment
When the medication you need prevents you from helping mouse and getting paid
@@Jack_Ss Not really true, at least for EU countries you get free medication for all chronic conditions without much issues.
My aunt has a severe condition, she has to take like 15 pills a day and go to rehab 4 times a week, but we never paid a single cent for any of that.
Nuts nah it sucks
@@Jack_Ssnah if you have life threatening things going on you’ll always get treatment in other countries. What takes longer is “elective “ procedures . They don’t just let people die in other countries 😂😂😂😂. We need to socialize our healthcare like……today
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its almost dystopian if you think about it
@@maxdownforcemediaAlmost?
@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 dystopia is an inherently fictional concept, so yea, almost.
Many things started off as fiction but later came to fruition. Things like credit cards, television and the 1969 lunar landing. Bionic limbs, military tanks, antidepressants and submarines emerged from sci-fi, too. @@adish1401
"I've got dental insurance"
Americans: OH SHIT SHE GOT MONEY!
I love that she's always pulling through, never once has it ever felt like she's falling off during this (even though the cough and such is sad)
Ironmouse is one of my personal heroes, I really admire her strength.
@@mikeridgeview9557 they are not my hero but I respect her drive. It's a very remarkable feat, get 100+ respect
You know you've made it big when you got dental
Plasma is always short over Christmas
Yes. That is why its so important to find the time to donate plasma during the holiday season. Because so few people do.
that is interesting to hear
I've been donating platelets more than the other items but I may see about swapping to plasma instead: because I can only donate with a single arm it takes hours to go through the platelet donation process, which makes it hard for me time and stress wise (lots of travel, have to do it after work, body gets sore after laying on the chair for up to two or three hours) so I've been donating a lot less over the last two years. Plasma isn't as fast as donating blood but it's a lot shorter from my experience.
Nobody should have to worry about basic needs. Food, shelter, healthcare, education should all be covered.
The more people that petition and fight for that, the more likely it'll be to happen. Write to your government and ask them why these Human Rights AREN'T guaranteed to everyone.
(also disability pay is less than $1,000/mo in most usa states if you want more ammo. rent alone is $600-$900 at a minimum in most states.)
Incorrect
That's how you get parasites who refuse to work. Obviously doesn't apply to mouse but these systems are slow, beurocratic, and doomed to crumble under their own weight, especially with borders being wide open.
Alright then genius, who's gonna pay for everything? We have 340,000,000+ million people in this Country. Please , enlighten me how your plan now how you're going to fund these services?
Funny that you don't see europeans cry about this bs, even though they do pay for it.... @@IceNinja2007
Insurance: You got the money
(SLAP A BRICK OF CASH ON THE TABLE)
Mousey: You tell me.
It's not just medicine, I work in the general storeroom of a hospital and order the non-pharm supplies for several wards. Supplies are crazy tight and things are constantly going on backorder and we're having to go 3 or sometimes more substitutes deep.
1:40 Yeah I am surprised that mouse has managed to even find one , just because she has a pre-existing condition. Some insurance companies just flat out reject you. The moment she switch companies, there are benefits you will not get back , because you have the illness already .
Iron Mouse is experiencing the Magic of Rich People Insurance and Money!!🎉
The US Health insurance/medical complex makes me die on the inside.
To be clear, it's making me die on the outside too...
Insurance companies should be fighting to cover Ironmouse, just for the exposure.
The Ironmouse Defense Armada 🫡
I’m hoping she pulls through and is okay
If any of you are interested, please do donate plasma. There are places that do aphresis. You just lay down and have your blood circulate into machine that takes the plasma instead of the whole blood and then pump it back into you. It takes more time but you just lay there and read a book or watch an episode or two on your phone. And it's a nice experience to feel cool blood being pumped back into you.
Isn't it better to just donate blood? They'll make plasma out of it if that is what's needed.
@@ruukinen Well it takes longer for the body to recreate blood lost from our body from the normal method. And this elicits a different response from each donor, from tiredness to lightheadedness to full on nausea. After the aphresis process, its much much easier for the body to replenish the plasma content so that you dont have to deal with that. Also, you will be back to full health faster.
Insurance agent: "Do you got the money?"
Iron Mouse makes it rain.
"is this what it takes to have good health care" the Ironmouse Defense Fund will come in clutch
Vampire confirmed
Can 100% relate to the list of conditions & meds. I'd be utterly fucked if I had to get health insurance, but thankfully I live in the UK! Glad Mouse can afford decent insurance, just wish everyone could... or that the system wasn't fucked up and broken.
as a Canadian our healthcare and insurance is income based. like as a disabled person I'm not allowed to save more than $5000 and I'm not allowed to make more than $18,000 a year. so I imagine all of Mouse's success is why she had to change insurance and things. glad things are going good for her
For American Insurance it's funny because you're not paying for them to pay your bills. You're paying for their lawyers. They call you and you refuse to pay? Well more than likely you'll lose the case if you have to go to court. But an insurance company? They've got lawyers for days that can stretch that out. So ultimately the hospital would rather drop the price by 90% than have to go through all of that + Legal Fees.
In this regard, that's how insurance companies can stay in the green despite it seeming like they're paying more than what they cost. Things settle for way less.
I hope she'll be ok
I hope everything starts going better for Mousey
I've recently been able to donate plasma due to personal reasons and the locations make it so difficult now to donate. The places I try to donate to are cancelling my appointments for some reason or another. I've had to give up on donating
Recently they put an allergy to alcohol on my chart and it’s taken weeks to clear me for donating again. Hope you can find a better place to donate
NOW WALK IT OUT 🎵
*BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD*
*BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD*
*BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!*
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!
FEROCITY INCARNATE!!!
She got that whole package deal
I try and donate plasma at least twice a month, it's rough because I have high blood pressure and it disqualifies me most times I try to donate. But it's for a good cause and you get to make a bit of extra money to boot.
Yeah it's gotta be emotionally tearing you apart to be her parent, to find out again you could never afford the new insurance, and then have your kid pay for it too. It's messed up.
I had some stays at a psych ward a couple times in my life. Each stay (3-4) days racked up bills of up to $15k. Damn near every public service industry is predatory. Thank god I was covered. There was one bill where I wasnt but I had the option of giving the bill to charity. I can't imagine what the bill is for someone who HAS to stay in the hospital any longer than that. It may be against medical advice to leave early, but that doesnt matter when you have so much debt you might as well be dead.
Mousie taking care of business. Thats one busy Mouse.
Friend who couldn't afford dental work went to Colombia and got her teeth removed. Just all pulled out, dentures instead. That's where the system is at. She's in her 30s.
Your friend is insane lol. Dental isn't even that expensive.
@@lukeshioshiodepens on your sicknesses mouth wise. i should do the same as ops friend.
If teeth need replacement then it's liek 2000 a tooth to get a replacement
Iron mouse you are such an inspiration and so funny. Hope you start feeling better. I couldn’t even imagine having to pay health insurance thank god I’m British.
Makes you appreciate the nhs a bit more
To donate plasma is to donate blood here in Brazil. The blood banks can choose what to do with the donations. If there's a demand for plasma, they put the blood into a centrifuge and separate it from the blood.
Wait...Dental Insurance and Medical Insurance are separate? :O Mousey needs the UK or the AU. Man we have the standard Government Health System and Private Insurance as an option on top. Anyway Wishing the very best for her this year. All the good stuff is available for her now.
Vision is separate too 😭
Bruh, you should see how much an ambulance costs. Some people refuse to be seen by a paramedic and ride in the ambulance because it's so expensive. They'll send you a bill even if they show up and you refuse their service.
Dental, medical, and vision are separate lol. The whole system is a scam.
@@infinitecurlie Yeah, got into a samll car accident a few year ago.
The officer and paramedics tried so hard to get me to take the ambulance, but I absolutely refused it.
I was a college student working 2 part time jobs, there was no way I could afford that shit.
Still had to pay like $50, but I was atleast lucky enough to suffer no lasting damage
AU? African Union?
I've been waiting on my meds for like 2 weeks.
Why can i imagine mouse saying "you go the money" at the doctors office
I wanna donate plasma, but i can’t if i’ve taking my adhd meds within a week of donating, and without the meds brain no work so good.
I gotta remember to use my dental insurance. Been 5 years since the last i went, and I have deep groves in my molars that they fill. Well, all that filling is gone, and cold things SUCK now, so I gotta go get that taken care of
Mouse has got them streamer bucks
It's so great she can afford good insurance now. What an amazing community
Honestly good on her for getting good insurance, helped an american i know who doesnt have insurance figure out if the foot they suspect they broke was a medical emergency and they had to go to the hospital or if they could just wait and see if it would heal on its own without amy intervention because they couldnt afford to go to the hospital for it
Im happy for mouse but the fact that she basically needs to be an international celebrity to not die is just insane.
Even someone with money like mouse, it still sounds like a hellscape in us style healthcare..... Can't imagine the stress and struggle people go through that can't afford it
I feel that, having to switch insurance and all the sudden the way you lived your life now costs so much more. I can't imagine what its like for someone like Mousey
I would still donate plasma but I can because I am recovering from Cancer and my pre-existing condition is Cerebral Palsy so I have a compromised immune system myself as a single disabled mom I wish I could help you mouse. I pray every day you get stronger and they get closer to a cure.
I also have a pre-existing condition and I didnt even try to get a heath insurance. I know its going to be almost impossible
I stopped donating plasma because my local plasma center was selling it to a company that does "young blood" transfusions for healthy rich people.
Wtf that's maximum scummy
@@kyokazuto Yeah my cousin had a lifesaving procedure that used plasma and I thought I was helping people like him,
Brazilian insurance is sooooo much easier gosh.
Plus, if you have to actually use it, you don't have to pay anything else.
Viva ao SUS e sua gigantesca fila de espera
it can work , but it can take more time than you can survive waiting it..
@@eldon515in the us you wait on those bills instead
I haven't been to a doctor in 9 years.
Holy fuck as someone who is chronically ill, I am glad I live in Australia.
I also have an auto immune disorder. I catch everything and was hospitalized for mrsa and sepsis. Healthcare doesnt wanna cover anything
How dose one donate plasma directly for mouse
I sadly can't spend, I always had a fear but since I went to the mental hospital and it was something you HAD to do, I got used to it a bit. But I also always have to take Antimykotika, because I always get the infection from my cat when he scratches me :')
I also have underfunction Schilddrüsen for over a year now TwT I really hope ya'll get better :( in my area quite some people donate tho! So that makes me feel less useless
2:42 ,remind me of the movie Pulp Friction when Samuel JackSon call his boss to send help after an accident
I am happy u r feeling better, and you got your insurance taken care of. know what u mean. I have my own list for my health care.
Makes me also wonder how her kid is doing.
Can't wait for the day that Mousey can finally visit the Denny's Bathroom with Connor. 😊
Whenever I hear plasma as a term outside of fallout my brain immediately just thinks “ah yes, there is always a plasma cell shortage in the wasteland”
Eugh I can only imagine the nightmare of changing healthcare providers.
And to imagine how many people ,are not as lucky like her, and cant actualy afford healthcare in the usa , but good for her
Medicare for all! ❤
Nowhere near as much of an issue that Mouse has, but I fight constantly for C-pap supplies that doctors say I absolutely need (I once stopped breathing 70 times within 1 hour while being tested on a sleep study) but because of one little hiccup, they 'lost' my insurance for 5 months and didn't say a word, just kept sending my supplies. Now I have a massive bill that they refuse to fix and expect me to pay. I just got really good at cleaning and sanitizing my equipment and the filters are cheap enough lol.
Yeah i had a plasma bbq las week and it was expensive!
Bro's lets all go donate that plasma
Hearing that there's a plasma shortage makes me so sad that I stopped donating the last two months, but the roads were so bad that they shut down the bus system
Its crazy to me that theres real people that are actuvely getting hurt by this system and still defending it
I feel so bad for americans. I have colitis, which is a chronic illness. Over time the patient becomes immune to the drugs we are given to treat it, so you have to switch medications. I am currently on biologics, the so called last line of medications before surgery - infliximab specifically which I get intravenously at my hospital. I checked and one monthly dose would cost around 1000 to 5000$ in the US. And I get double dose of it! All of this is covered by my insurance here, I don't have to pay any medication costs for it. My country is shit in a lot of aspects, our healthcare is far from perfect but it breaks my heart to think some people have to break bank to simply afford to stay alive. What an extremely cruel system.
There is no bigger flex in the US than having baller health insurance.
Hope she gets better and idk if she takes opiates but hopefully she can cut down and get that billionaire medical treatment
Some days, it can be so enraging to know how to make yourself feel better, but not be able to afford it. (I just want to eat without pain, man...)
Actually i have a donation appointment today.
Mouse has made it a goal for me to eventually donate plasma even though I am a bitch when it comes to any pain at all
It barely hurts. The hardest part of anything is starting. I believe in you, dude. (Bring a podcast to listen to; the wifi is for crap. )
@@uselesspocketwatch good idea I'll keep that in mind for the future
@@uselesspocketwatch would you say that it's more or less painful than a blood donation in your opinion
@@CreamIc7 Sorry, I have not done that so as to compare the two.
@@uselesspocketwatch what about a vaccine is it much more painful than that?
Sadly due to high blood pressure i dont think i can donate plasma
Little lady. Nice name for a gremolin.
We should upgrade Fancy boy to PoshDude too.
Wow and dental, good for her. My whole teeth situation and only plan is that they all eventually fall out at the same time more less so that I can make a trip to Mexico and all in on some dentures.
Honestly, I just wish we could have an honest discussion in this country about it.
It's only "socialize or not socializing" the system.
It's never "hey, maybe the people in the system are corrupt."
Or
Maybe we can do a mixed system like Japan which has a majority of hospitals being privately owned, but has public insurance which covers I'm pretty sure 70% of the cost or more.
They also have tight controls on pricing which are updated regularly:
"The Japanese Health Ministry tightly controls the price of health care down to the smallest detail. Every two years, the health care industry and the health ministry negotiate a fixed price for every procedure and every drug." -NPR
Of course, the question of avoiding strikes from underpaying doctors also comes up, but Japan apparently solved that in their last strike.
But again, it's a lot of people yelling and a lot of nothing happening as the prices go up.
Can't even try the simple point of price controls because it's either "not enough" or "too much."
*angry Georgist noises*
Omfg I had to change insurance companies this year as well… it’s horrible. So many out of pocket expenses, where tf am I going to get my medications, why are my doctors out of network now? As somebody with a chronic illness as well… it’s exhausting.
I would totally understand if Ironmouse would say: "fuck this shit, I move to Wales" - because even the NHS in Britain has a better healthcare system. And don't worry, she would still pay, as she makes money with Vtubing - but much less as she is most likely paying in the USA right now.
I feel like the welsh internet speed might also come with some issues if what Conner said is true 😂
The NHS is definitely NOT a better healthcare system. Sure the healthcare in the US has a lot of problems, but as hard as it can be to afford, you can get good care when you need it very quickly. In the UK, pretty much everyone ends up on months or even years-long waiting lists, because they have no incentive to make it any more efficient.
Any sort of business run like that in the US would quickly go under, but being run by the government, the NHS can just do whatever the hell it wants and the english just have to put up with it, all while being heavily taxed for it.
@@vecghul2793because the tory rats have cut so much funding over the years that the NHS can do nothing but crumble
@@vecghul2793 Yeah, I'm in the UK and while she'd be getting her daily medications and treatments for free she'd have to wait months or even years to see a specialist if anything goes wrong (outside of emergencies).
@@greenie3419 Not free, but at least not some thousand dollars per month, as each medicine is capped at a payable price point.
legit fuck insurance.
I'm going to the doctor soon and I'll check my blood type to see if going through the stress of blood donations is worth it
I wonder how much is the insurance with her chronic condition.😮
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Funny how money solves (almost) all problems