that’s not even counting how much the health insurance industry is subsidized by state and federal taxes.
Straight up making us pay twice for the privelige of not getting medical treatment
If you look up the statistics, the US has one of the highest public healthcare expenditures by capita, in addition to also having one of the highest private per capita expenditures.
Americans are being scammed.
The US is #1 in spending as a percentage of National GDP on healthcare.
Also the US: is #47 in life expectancy.
The US is getting fucking robbed by their medical industry. Of course I expect nothing less from the nation that had AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, etc steal $400B for Internet they never built. Which is also the nation that spent $700B on banks to “save” them.
Damn, I need a loan from the bank of the American taxpayer.
And if you are insured, they will just straight up tell the hospital they can’t treat you sometimes.
This is one of the biggest things that make me irrationally angry - screeching about death panels like they aren’t already paying $300+ a month to companies who serve literally zero purpose except standing between you and the Healthcare you pay for so they can tell you that you don’t get the Healthcare you pay for.
I love and depend on the NHS - but it’s being starved of money and stretched thin on purpose. Policy makers don’t have to use it, and don’t have a waitlist.
And everyone keeps voting for the team of rich fucks that want to dismantle it and force inflate private healthcare on all, lining their pockets. Disgusting
Even from the US, I find the crab-bucket, servile nastyness of British mainstream media to be especially open and nauseating
Well I’m glad someone picked up on it! The ass kissing of royals brings vomit to the back of my mouth.
Do you remember the days where people were complaining that they wanted to book a GP appointment more than 48 hours later but were being told they had to see their GP within 2 days? Good times.
My last major health crisis in a series of years resulted in some answers, but I’m not yet in recovery stage, still severely anaemic (and all the confusion, depression and exhaustion that generates). Everytume I was off work with SIBO/IBS it was 2 week before I could get hold of a doctor, and until last time I had no idea it was celiac disease :0
They’ll probably take it as a compliment, but some people are total lumpens that yearn for the mines.
Ah we shut most of the mines in 70’s/80’s, and decided that anyone who lived in a mining or factory town could get fucked while London got rich.
I work at a coal mine! _
I yearn for the mines. Its nice and chilly and dark. I wear all black and hate the sun. I thought it would be bad for my skin but the coal dust dries me out and killed all my acne. Now im nice and smooth, unlike my coworkers.
I love how people who screech about ‘white genocide’ are also the people who see something like this (especially how expensive it is to have a baby) and usually want to keep it this way, never mind that most of them aren’t actually benefiting at all from keeping it like this.
tbf there’s a reason why “smart as a racist” never really gained momentum as a metaphor
Ooh we should also add in the cost of monthly lifesaving medications.
My leukemia medication (sprycel) is listed at $16,794 per month. I’m over 40, and I’ve barely made over $20k a year for only a few years in my life. Per month it costs more than half as much as what I have been making per year my whole adult working life.
Guess I’ll just die then.
Soon even in Europe, already need 50€ for doing analysis at hospital, with a waiting list of 1 to 2 years. Public healthcare is falling apart versus private one.
The only people who can’t stand universal Healthcare are corporate suits who stand to profit from privatization and redneck dumbfucks who have never left their state much less the US.
And I’m guessing you don’t work for UHG.
50+ years of neoliberalism dismantling the public system will do that.
In Denmark visits to GP’s, specialists and hospitals are free. Prescription drugs are subsidised on a sliding scale meaning that adults will pay a maximum of USD 640 a year for their prescriptions.
Dental care is not covered though, leading to a huge disparity in dental health between the rich and the poor.
That’s the most significant thing keeping me from relocating to America. I prefer not having to choose between physical and financial death.
It’s the freedom to make people that want to live bankrupt alright.
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“It is because people nowadays cannot handle responsibility” - Neoliberals
