• JoYo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    that's not even counting how much the health insurance industry is subsidized by state and federal taxes.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        If you look up the statistics, the US has one of the highest public healthcare expenditures by capita, in addition to also having one of the highest private per capita expenditures.

        Americans are being scammed.

    • Facebones@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      This is one of the biggest things that make me irrationally angry - screeching about death panels like they aren't already paying $300+ a month to companies who serve literally zero purpose except standing between you and the Healthcare you pay for so they can tell you that you don't get the Healthcare you pay for.

  • craftyindividual@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I love and depend on the NHS - but it's being starved of money and stretched thin on purpose. Policy makers don't have to use it, and don't have a waitlist.

    And everyone keeps voting for the team of rich fucks that want to dismantle it and force inflate private healthcare on all, lining their pockets. Disgusting

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Even from the US, I find the crab-bucket, servile nastyness of British mainstream media to be especially open and nauseating

    • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      They'll probably take it as a compliment, but some people are total lumpens that yearn for the mines.

      • craftyindividual@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Ah we shut most of the mines in 70's/80's, and decided that anyone who lived in a mining or factory town could get fucked while London got rich.

      • toomanyjoints69@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        I work at a coal mine! _

        I yearn for the mines. Its nice and chilly and dark. I wear all black and hate the sun. I thought it would be bad for my skin but the coal dust dries me out and killed all my acne. Now im nice and smooth, unlike my coworkers.

    • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      Do you remember the days where people were complaining that they wanted to book a GP appointment more than 48 hours later but were being told they had to see their GP within 2 days? Good times.

      • craftyindividual@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        My last major health crisis in a series of years resulted in some answers, but I'm not yet in recovery stage, still severely anaemic (and all the confusion, depression and exhaustion that generates). Everytume I was off work with SIBO/IBS it was 2 week before I could get hold of a doctor, and until last time I had no idea it was celiac disease :0

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      What a great thing that all that money saved by Brexit now guys towards the NHS. /S

  • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    I love how people who screech about 'white genocide' are also the people who see something like this (especially how expensive it is to have a baby) and usually want to keep it this way, never mind that most of them aren't actually benefiting at all from keeping it like this.

  • banana_meccanica@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    Soon even in Europe, already need 50€ for doing analysis at hospital, with a waiting list of 1 to 2 years. Public healthcare is falling apart versus private one.

    • Facebones@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      The only people who can't stand universal Healthcare are corporate suits who stand to profit from privatization and redneck dumbfucks who have never left their state much less the US.

      And I'm guessing you don't work for UHG.

    • bigboopballs [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      50+ years of neoliberalism dismantling the public system will do that.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    In Denmark visits to GP's, specialists and hospitals are free. Prescription drugs are subsidised on a sliding scale meaning that adults will pay a maximum of USD 640 a year for their prescriptions.

    Dental care is not covered though, leading to a huge disparity in dental health between the rich and the poor.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        My total income tax is around 38%. I reckon that to be less than what burgerlanders pay in income tax, insurance premiums and co-pays.

  • Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I dont know where this person got their numbers, but the prices are WAAAAAAYYYYY off.

    I had a relative need an Ambulance ride next year. less than 1/4th a mile to the hospital. the cost was over 5000 dollars.

    last time I went to the emergency room, I got nothing but a chewable asprin, a bag of saline, a basic blood test and chest xrays and it was almost 40 grand.. and that was with the "filthy uninsured peasant" discount, which I know thats what the charts focused on, but its ridiculous how much more expensive it is with insurance, even if you dont see the cost to your wallet.

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Alhamdulilat for House of Saud. Our healthcare is actually free, we don’t even pay an income tax.

    I will be convinced democracy is better and works once people in the US aren’t afraid of an ambulance ride.