This meme has no relevance to anything. If it was trying to imply that the USA is cut off from healthcare, it’s totally inaccurate. There are thousands of hospitals and doctor’s offices all over the USA, and Americans utilize them all the time to obtain the healthcare that they need.
Even Americans with no money have options for free healthcare, and here is a link that can be used to access it:
totally inaccurate
Absolutely!
I went to the doctor in my country with a sore wrist. I got prescribed an anti inflammatory medication. The pharmacist split the pills up into individual bags to help track what I should take each day.
The whole thing including medicine cost me $5 USD
9 months of chemo on magrath, multiple meds and hospital stays from complications including two stints in ICU. $0 AUD at one of the best cancer care hospitals in the world.
Oh and i also received federal disability payments because i couldn’t work.
Hey. I went to the ER and didn’t have to pay a dime of the near $100k that I was billed. This is primarily because I was hit by an SUV and they were ruled completely at fault. I did have to setup a payment plan for the $5k that the US hospital system charged for my wife spraining her ankle two weeks before or wedding. Yeah. That was fun. Literally cost more than we could afford for the wedding.
Fuck this privatized, for-profit system.
Yes I have had all sorts of medical issues, numerous emergency room visits, and car accidents. I am quite well versed with the healthcare system in the USA and its costs. Everything that I wrote was based on real-life experience and facts. I’ve paid for the births of multiple children and surgeries for myself and family.
Every one of you that thinks healthcare is not accessible is wrong. We have options, and being a doomer who thinks that you don’t only hurts yourself and the others who you infect with your mental delusion.
Why are you this way?
Just why?
Meanwhile we’ve reached past global resource tipping points, yet there are still people who believe we can manage a post scarcity society.
Idealism will be the death of us all.
Nowhere did I ever say anything like that. Not once did I say “the American healthcare system is perfect” or great or even good.
What I said already is still there where I said it before. Please do not make up your own interpretations of my words, because you cannot speak for me.
ItS a sTrAiGhT-uP fAcT tHaT aMeRiCaNs dO hAvE aCcEsS tO hEaLtHcArE
Dude you’re fucking deluded but I’m glad you personally have excellent insurance
Hi there. Had kidney failure for about 8 years.
There was this one medication I badly needed to control secondary hyperparathyroidism. Literally used all avenues, and couldn’t get it approved or covered, other than by paying around 800$ for a single dose. I even had private insurance still at the time btw. The alternative was a surgery to remove a parathyroid gland which would then lead me to having other severe health complications if I got a kidney transplant. You know, due to now missing an organ.
Second treatment in Finland when I was just VISITING, not even a resident yet - "oh, you’re PTH levels are extremely high. We’re going to give you “medicine I’ve been trying to get for months”.
Just like that. No struggle even. Cost? 25$, and that includes the superior diafiltration treatment (USA only has dialysis, despite it giving poorer quality of life and lowering life expectancy, thanks to lobbying from DaVita.
Anyway, fuck you 🙂
Less sick than if I had been in the USA 🙃
Less dead, too.
Hopefully you don’t end up in my situation. Or maybe it’s better you do 🤷🏻♂️
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This comment has no relevance to anything. If it was trying to imply that Americans don’t avoid healthcare due to cost, in effect denying Americans healthcare, it’s totally inaccurate. There are thousands of American citizens all over the USA that cannot afford healthcare, and Americans routinely avoid getting needed healthcare just to make ends meet.
Even Americans with higher incomes avoid healthcare, and here is a link that mentions that specifically: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/health-care-costs-rising-americans/
Almost 13 million people say they know a friend or family member who has died because they couldn't afford care.
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