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.
Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴@Patricia Capitalism in America = multi-systemic brutality. Pick your societal system. In America, if there's money to be made within it, people are needlessly suffering and dying while CEOs get bigger bonuses because of it. Because of the suffering and dying. I guess it would be hip to say "sit with that"...
🐈⬛David SommersethI heard some people refer to the system in USA to be corporatism. It's the big influential companies essentially setting the political course, through their donations to the Democratic Party or GOP. And these parties "pay back" through politics benefiting the companies first of all, then the party and at the very end, the people.