This meme has no relevance to anything. If it was trying to imply that the USA is cut off from healthcare, it's totally inaccurate. There are thousands of hospitals and doctor's offices all over the USA, and Americans utilize them all the time to obtain the healthcare that they need.
Even Americans with no money have options for free healthcare, and here is a link that can be used to access it:
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.
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.
Masses of tests culminating in 9 months of chemo on magrath, multiple meds and hospital stays from complications including two stints in ICU, CAT scans, blood tests, etc etc. $0 AUD at one of the best cancer care hospitals in the world.
Oh and i also received federal disability payments because i couldn't work.
Meanwhile in America, we had to take my daughter to the hospital to have a penny unstuck from the roof of her mouth. The only reason I couldn't get it out is because she was being hysterical and nearly hurt herself in the process. Removing it took 2 mins, a suction tube, and a q-tip. It cost us $300 out of pocket.
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.
Yes I have had all sorts of medical issues, numerous emergency room visits, and car accidents. I am quite well versed with the healthcare system in the USA and its costs. Everything that I wrote was based on real-life experience and facts. I've paid for the births of multiple children and surgeries for myself and family.
Every one of you that thinks healthcare is not accessible is wrong. We have options, and being a doomer who thinks that you don't only hurts yourself and the others who you infect with your mental delusion.
I'm just here to spread some facts to fight back against this ridiculous doomerism. It is a straight-up fact that Americans do have access to healthcare, and this meme is making a joke to imply that we do not. It's fucking stupid and being a doomer is worse than useless.
So there's no room for improvement then? Because I really don't think it's as accessible as other nations and your ability to heal shouldn't depend on your job.
Nowhere did I ever say anything like that. Not once did I say "the American healthcare system is perfect" or great or even good.
What I said already is still there where I said it before. Please do not make up your own interpretations of my words, because you cannot speak for me.
Context isn't real and won't effect your English grades. "Americans have access to free healthcare..." Ahhh yes the fabled NHS America, if only, then when I go online people would be complaining about doctors not getting paid well enough, and not how everyone is paying huge chunks of money for literally any treatment of any kind.
"Americans have access to free healthcare..." Is a disingenuous statement that ignores the financial damage private healthcare does to everyone.
And yes Americans do have hospitals and doctors in the most literal sense, and you are unfortunate to go there if you want to be dept free. I hear ambulances are £5000 for a single ride.
There was this one medication I badly needed to control secondary hyperparathyroidism. Literally used all avenues, and couldn't get it approved or covered, other than by paying around 800$ for a single dose. I even had private insurance still at the time btw. The alternative was a surgery to remove a parathyroid gland which would then lead me to having other severe health complications if I got a kidney transplant. You know, due to now missing an organ.
Second treatment in Finland when I was just VISITING, not even a resident yet - "oh, you're PTH levels are extremely high. We're going to give you "medicine I've been trying to get for months".
Just like that. No struggle even. Cost? 25$, and that includes the superior diafiltration treatment (USA only has dialysis, despite it giving poorer quality of life and lowering life expectancy, thanks to lobbying from DaVita.
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 😂
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.
