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.
stilescrisis@Patricia This is probably because America does have free health care, if you are in the military, but it's kind of abysmal. Long waits, lots of things denied, etc.