Be healthy, be young, fall ill. You have a great job of course, you have insurance. It would be ok if the worst thing about health insurance in America was it is hard to navigate. No! The actual problem is that your insurance is incentivized not to cover you at your most vulnerable moment.
You pay them every month. That's money that goes from your paycheck, into their pockets. Now if they cover you, that's money that leaves their pocket, and go into your treatment. There are two ways they can make money. 1. You continue paying every month, and never fall ill. 2. You fall ill, and they deny you care.
Only the second option is an active option. Health Insurance is a scam that we have normalized in the United States. It helps no one, it makes healthcare unaffordable, and you have to fight tooth and nail to get any sort of care. When Luigi was in the headlines, and news anchors were asking how such a young man can get radicalized, I shook my head.
In America, it is our tradition to get 2 jobs. It is our tradition to live paycheck to paycheck. And it is our tradition to get radicalized the moment we get sick. When you get sick, the healthcare industry tries to charge much as they can get away with and the insurance industry tries to deny as much as it can.