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.
Noah Cook@Patricia Without getting into specifics, yes American healthcare can be that bad, and worse. In fact, the problems are often fractal: the closer you look at a problem, the more the many difficulties seem to multiply, until it's one step forward and two back.
But I also want to add that I wish that the root causes were as simple as greed or corporate profits. I wish it were just a matter of implementing a few easy reforms. And it's like repairing a ship under sail, it can't just stop.
@UncivilServant you must be new here because that is exactly what I want to hear 😂 I want to hear about realistic transitions to better systems that doesn’t result in suffering while we do it. But as fast as is possible to do safely 😃