Patricia AasI knew American healthcare was abysmal, but I was still shocked when I learned a few years ago that Americans pay for ambulance rides and giving birth.
I know I should’ve realized.
It just wasn’t in my realm of possibilities.
I went to school in the US from 95-97 and while I was there I volunteered at an “AIDS hospice”. And the premise seemed to be that it was a place where folks went to die.
Now remember I was a kid and Norwegian and clueless.
Years later someone said that I was lying when I told them this. Because why would someone be dying of AIDS in 96? There had been drugs for years by then.
So as an adult I realized that the people I had been caring for when I was a teenager were probably people who were dying of a treatable disease because they didn’t have healthcare.
And the depth of propaganda Americans live under astounds me because if you ask people on the street about if they should have universal healthcare a good bunch still say no.
That is a level of Stockholm syndrome the Swedes would have zero tolerance for.
Apiary@Patricia they are told from a very young age that they live in the best country in the world. Why would they want something lesser countries have? (It’s frustrating)
@Patricia sadly it’s propaganda that bleeds over to Canada where people are trying to undercut the public healthcare system.
ModestinoSycamore@Apiary it’s quite shocking to witness even today how deeply it is ingrained
@Patricia yep. It was a culture shock moving here.
Jack Daniel (often offline)@Apiary @Patricia I remember conversations about healthcare, and many other topics when I spent a couple of weeks in Norway in 2017. Most Norwegians were skeptical, and when convinced they were appalled. "It's like you are trying to kill anyone who isn't wealthy".
No, it is not "like" that, it is that.
No, it is not "like" that, it is that.
@jack_daniel @Apiary I know it’s true, but my brain just can’t accept it
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