12mo ago

Hell yeah

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We're not cut off! We have the freedom to go bankrupt and usually get most of the care we need.
I mean, sure, we could die even if we throw all we have at it. But we have the freedom to die! 'Merica!!

Good and accurate.

I always make sure to have an American flag up in my room and a map of the US on my computer. America, fuck yeah!

Yeah but…

- I paid 1000 dollars for an emergency room visit when I was incapacitated by a muscle in my back. Next day, went to the doctor, still had to pay another 150 dollars. He put his hands on my back like he was doing some sort of Vulcan technique. My back was never fixed and I'm afraid to go back and pay more cause I have nothing. I'm on the state plan. It started at 30 bucks a month two years ago, now its 139 bucks a month. Please, shut the fuck up. We need to abolish this system and actually have social programs for this.
  
  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.
  
  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
- Tell me you're still on your parents insurance plan without telling me you're on your parents insurance plan.
- sadfsdfasfasf
- Is this fucker really trying to defend privatised healthcare...
- Why are you this way?
  Just why?
  
  lemmy.world
- 👢 👅
- 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/
- "How dare you suggest we pay for free healthcare" - most Americans in Greta Thunberg ' voice
  
  Don't Americans pay way more compared to most other countries because there's little to no competition and/or price negotiation to reduce the cost of prescription drugs? I thought that was what people were saying, not that they don't want to pay for healthcare. lol. How intellectually dishonest of you 😂
- totally inaccurate
  Absolutely!

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