Impact of Coronavirus on African Americans.

[FarhanYare]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll3HCx7 ... 79hp6cLPOm

[AbdiWahab252]

Farhan

African Americans had worse health outcomes due to
Poverty and less access to health resources compared to other ethnic groups.

The US doesn’t guarantee health insurance to everyone. You can vet health insurance through your job which you lose if you become unemployed. If you live in a state without an Obamacare exchange you can’t buy in

[Nubis]

[FarhanYare]

AW,
What if you don't have a job and so you can't be insured for health? Say that individual had an abdominal pain and went to the ER, what would the cost be? That whole concept is foreign to us here since public hospital and gp's are free except for the small consultation fee for gp.

[AbdiWahab252]

3 ways to get health insurance: 1. Through your job and you pay a portion of salary 2. Through State market place which you buy your own policy (some states don’t have one due to Republican governments who are against the federal program) 3. Public federal medical insurance if you are poor (Medicaid) or over 60 (senior retiree Medicare).

If you don’t have health insurance you have to pay out of pocket which can be in the hundreds of thousands. A friend had a 3 day stay and hospital billed $130000 but he had insurance and only paid $100. Most Americans who go into bankruptcy is due to medical bills.

Adeer if you come to America make sure you get international travelers health insurance cause America is the most expensive place to get sick.