Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[LinekersLegs]

A genuine question.
How much is health insurance in America for your average citizen ?

Varies widely tbh based on plan type, location, your own age/health and whether you get a subsidy from government or discounted plan negotiated by your company.

Average Health Insurance Cost in 2026

The average cost of health insurance is $752 per month for 2026.

www.valuepenguin.com

How Much Does Health Insurance Cost Per Month?

How much does health insurance cost per month? HealthMarkets examines the average national cost and the average costs in your state, with and without a subsidy.

www.healthmarkets.com

 

[RAFUH]

WTH. France. They had around 500 yesterday

 

[Goat]

Germany's numbers make for pretty grim reading atm too.

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop

Germany

84,794

+6,813

1,107

+176

22,440

61,247

3,936

1,012

13

Doing vastly better than most European nations?

 

[Nymzee]

Latest stuff. Re. confirmed cases, UK still looks to be on course with Germany/France though will need to flatten off in the next 5-7 days. Not good news on the deaths but the confirmed cases one is the one which will show how effective lockdown has been overall. Obviously need the death rate to slow but it's showing no sign of it.





Bit confused as to where he's getting the Sweden info from. The deaths are not the same as Italy or Spain according to WHO (see below - unless of course he means at the same stage in the process, but even then I feel Italy was having way more than 69 new deaths a day at this stage. It's definitely rising in Sweden like.

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop

Sweden

5,568

+621

308

+69

103

5,157

429

551

30

I presume, like you say, he’s mapping Sweden & Belgium to where Italy & Spain were at the same stage of their outbreak.

 

[Tin-Tin]

This is horrifying. Over 1 million people in 5 sq km area

God knows the death toll here and parts of Africa when it takes hold. These poor people dont have the luxury of social distancing, clean water, or decent healthcare

 

[Toast]

Varies widely tbh based on plan type, location, your own age/health and whether you get a subsidy from government or discounted plan negotiated by your company.

Average Health Insurance Cost in 2026

The average cost of health insurance is $752 per month for 2026.

www.valuepenguin.com

How Much Does Health Insurance Cost Per Month?

How much does health insurance cost per month? HealthMarkets examines the average national cost and the average costs in your state, with and without a subsidy.

www.healthmarkets.com

Wow.

That's proper money that.

 

[RAFUH]

Wow.

That's proper money that.

That’s just the premium.

You will have a copay of $5-50 to see you doctor. Medication copay with similar range for each medication every month

Edit: that’s just outpatient costs.

 

[Toast]

That’s just the premium.

You will have a copay of $5-50 to see you doctor. Medication copay with similar range for each medication every month

Edit: that’s just outpatient costs.

I mentioned myself getting ill abroad a while back.
Now, that holiday was originally a fully paid up Disney holiday to Florida and Disney had to cancel it due to issues with the hotel.
We ended up in Spain..
My medical bill was over £250k apparantly ( insured so not arsed ).
I dread to think what it would have been in the US, and family couldn't pop on a 2 hour flight either to visit and stay.

You must think our NHS is superb ?

 

[Ruairi77]

A genuine question.
How much is health insurance in America for your average citizen ?

I’m fairly run of the mill income wise
Neither my wife or I get coverage through work. We have one kid
we pay $1000 a month.
that has a $2000 deductible for each person. Meaning they won’t pay anything till you spend that amount (not as a family but individually)
then there’s copays which is a charge for anything you do even after the deductible.
In the average year as a family, we spend around $20k (including inurance) on healthcare.
this would be considered fairly normal. Not sure how anyone with chronic illness manages.

 

[witchdoc187]

I’m fairly run of the mill income wise
Neither my wife or I get coverage through work. We have one kid
we pay $1000 a month.
that has a $2000 deductible for each person. Meaning they won’t pay anything till you spend that amount (not as a family but individually)
then there’s copays which is a charge for anything you do even after the deductible.
In the average year as a family, we spend around $20k (including inurance) on healthcare.
this would be considered fairly normal. Not sure how anyone with chronic illness manages.

Jesus that's scandalous. Maybe I'll stop moaning about £60 per person per month here in Spain

 

[GwladysPhil]

Which we did.

What's your point here?

 

[Goat]

What's your point here?

That we sent soldiers to face machine guns with bayonets.

And that we will do it again.

 

[Ruairi77]

Jesus that's scandalous. Maybe I'll stop moaning about £60 per person per month here in Spain

In fairness, both of us get paid far better for what we do than we would in the UK or Spain.
where the system really fails is if you can’t work due to illness.

 

[RAFUH]

In fairness, both of us get paid far better for what we do than we would in the UK or Spain.
where the system really fails is if you can’t work due to illness.

or have similar insurance on a lot less pay

 

[Toast]

Shenzhen becomes first Chinese city to ban eating cats and dogs

The ruling is a tougher version of China's ban of wildlife meat, after it was linked to the virus.

www.bbc.co.uk

Absolute wrong uns.

Convince me otherwise.