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They’re SOooo #1, they’re last!

Wow. This is disgraceful. Shame

Had a wry smile the other day when some redneck American on a car forum said "So how is that free health care working out for ya? Is it really worth the trade off?" when comparing fuel prices in the USA to overseas All I could think was what a fucking nob head, fuel taxes don't pay for healthcare

Yes but you didn't say how all those people with zeroes by their names are radical Marxist Leninist Communists you fools! You guys have the freedom to go bankrupt and some even die. You know, real freedom.

The US refuses to be tied for first place.

Stark

That's capitalism for you, even sickness has value to be exploited.

Even in Norway you can go bankrupt if you get Ill and don’t earn enough to pay your bills. The medical bill is anyway zero.

Nah. It's free in Australia. Would be hard to go broke on dental. But if you go private you still pay all sorts of bills as well. You will get seen faster, that's all. But you won't die of cancer on a waiting list. Or go broke. Our ambulance system, bed and health worker shortage is the threat.

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Yes. I own an insolvency business

The dental thing applies in Sweden too. Stupid incomprehensible policy.

more than a couple of hundred dollars in total. Of course, if your ill health leaves you seriously disabled, so that you can't work, that may impact your financial well-being. How could it not? But you won't be left to starve.

...The Australia one is definitely wrong, making the rest suspect.

*sigh* ignorance is not bliss

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That's why Breaking Bad could not be filmed in another country.

Hilarious🫩

In "The Pitt" series, they show the case of a worker who had two jobs. Because of that configuration, he was not eligible for medicare. He had health issues, was already in debt, and refused to stay in the hospital because he simply could not afford it. He then tried to kill himself.

Is that similar to the number of guns a US citizen is allowed to own, in line with whatever ammendment is in vogue this week. 🤔 🇺🇲✌️🗽

Someone should tell the lady I spoke with last week who lost her job and housing after getting cancer in Canada. Disability supports don't allow for people to stay in their homes and she'll likely be dead before a spot comes up on the BC housing list.

Ooh! Do gun deaths next!

Thank goodness at least one country on the planet has the capacity to cure.

Nope. 320,000 Canadians filed bankruptcy due to medical bills last year.

If only we were wise enough to learn that lesson.

The CON$ervatives in Canada Doug Ford & Danielle Smith are intent on making Canada shit by destroying our healthcare & education system. They’re both traitors to Canada & embrace MAGA culture.

Yeah. BLEED IT till you CAN'T.

You sure illness related work loss should be included in that? I'm from Australia and we have universal healthcare but we don't have universal income protection insurance ...

Sad, sad, sad... 😢

So who really has the “shithole country,” krasnov.

There's got to be a reason behind this. 🤔

My wife broke her tibia and strained her MCL. My HSA 'had' 8k in it. By had, I mean i hit my 6,000 deductible already this year.

That's about the entire population of Wyoming.

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Come on now! We’re the greatest country in the world! How can that be? Being facetious of course but how sad!

A good and timely reminder - things that matter MUST be defended and protected. Thanks👍👍

They'll soon get sick of winning.

I have no words….😶,😖😞…..

Its like the guns. America is just so exceptional that there's no fixing it.

Worst healthcare in the world in my opinion… presidents should be forced to go to emergency rooms like any other American and wait without any privilege so they finally DO SOMETHING!!

Just criminal

This is only the beginning. We're about to see a much higher rate of medical-related bankruptcies in America.

America is the most dangerous country in the world and needs to be curtailed before it destroys the planet

Nice country ya got there.

What are you?! Some kind of Communist!

I assume you're thinking of eyeglasses specifically. But I do agree that vision and dental coverage needs to be greatly expanded.

Greatest country in the world my ass!

It’s a mess because the conservatives want to privatize it and won’t fund it properly just like in Canada. We have liberal federal government that doles out money to provinces and once conservative premiers get their mits on the money they squander it

True ! But everyone is cutting that class 😠

#SaveTheNHS

I told the Democrats to change their political messaging nationally to BLAME THE REPUBLICANS FOR EVERYTHING

It happened to me when I was a youngster.

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What a great country!

EXTRAORDINARY 😳😳😳😳😳😳 USA really doesn’t care for its citizens and their health. This all falls on FASCIST REPUBLICANS for always denying healthcare. USA SHOULD HAVE MEDICARE FOR ALL‼️‼️‼️‼️

And some Dems who aren't doing enough replace with a younger forward thinker

We MUST. It’s a human requirement

Obama wore a tan suit, that's what's important.

This is criminal. We suck.

@lazytato.bsky.social

Fortunately I can pay. I feel for those that can’t

Of the various national health systems the U.S. could look to as a model, I like Japan's system the best.

Don't hold out- tell us the lesson!

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You implied that problems regarding medical costs amount to hidden bankruptcies without offering specifics. My reply is thus totally relevant to your comment.

The stats were for bankruptcy caused by medical repayment debts, not stats on ill health being massively shitty and diminishing or evaporating earnings. Those effects of ill health also apply in the US, along with the highest medical costs in the developed world and all the bankruptcies.

And that lesson is don't believe every unsourced claim you read on internet.

My husband just had an emergency medical procedure/operation to save his life—we anticipate that the total cost (includingTWO neuro vascular surgeons) will be northward of $250K. Thankfully, we have great insurance, but how would someone with no or shitty coverage be able the have this procedure?!?!

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Yeah, the lesson is that you’d be able to afford universal healthcare if you weren’t forever starting foreign wars.

Read my bio: I’m a German citizen, so I should know what good social care system means. And yet, it’s not working equally for everyone. Not as terrible as in the US, certainly, but not perfect, either.

America, Land of the Greed where Profit leads over life.

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I agree with you 💯 percent. It's utterly outrageous that the president has smashed the people for personal gain.

Him and Hegseth were just blowing shit up and struck oil(so to speak) would not be surprised find out that Trump thought the Ayatollah was just a fancy word for eye doctor(an optometrist)

Australia isn't dumb enough to elect Trump. The US is.

There is but alas America won’t understand

Everyone I know is one minor emergency away from losing everything.

Australia here: Six months ago, a family member got 3rd degree burns to her hand, which meant specialist consults, bandages, creams, maybe skin grafts, other follow up. All better, all free. But they were always out of coffee in the waiting room. Tea, sugar, milk, but never coffee. How dare they? !🤷🏽‍♀️

Congress needs to have their health insurance & HSAs taken from them, and their pay needs to be restricted to how much time they actually work. I'm tired of the lot of them. Vote out all incumbents.

Which is why they are fanatically opposed.

There's also a faction in Canada that's trying to undermine our universal healthcare system in favour of dirty $$ from US private health providers.

Every single person in the UK has a story about a time the NHS was there for them when they or a friend or family member was in need and they didn’t once have to stop to think how will we afford this.

In the meantime they underfund it massively (so they can say look how bad it is!) & outsource bits to private sector to suck out public money. I can see how much worse it is since 20 years ago. Used to walk in and been seen within a couple of hours. Now it's a stuggle to get an appointment.

Follow the money. The US health system feeds the insurance companies, etc etc which is unhealthy.

Nope. No one with empathy and compassion for their fellow person.

This was happening long before the Orange Shitgibbon.

Guess this headline is valid here too 🤷

Podiatry, sorry.

We gave Europe the Marshall Plan. Europe tried to pay it back (many times over), with dozens of massive, long-term case studies on how to provide health care and secondary education in free and democratic societies. Look in the mirror for once, America. If anyone lacks gratitude, it is we.

Facts So many facts that just get in the way of the many lies from the GOP and corporations whose agenda is greed.

Social democracy. Not socialism. I so wish people would use those terms correctly. Because at least Americans have no clue here.

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Yep. Never trust lawmakers and the rich.