01-11-2024, 02:20 AM
This country really needs to pull its head out of its ass and join the other 32 civilized countries and adopt universal healthcare. It'd solve a lot of issues. When you hear stories from other people in the world when they had an accident, landed in the emergency room with a couple busted bones and the biggest expense was when their significant other picked them up and had to pay the $5 parking fee. Or hearing an American traveling abroad with their kid and the kid gets violently ill, goes to the emergency room, gets treated and prescribed some medicine and now on checkout the administrator very apologetically explains that since they're not a citizen they'll have to pay the full price for services and it'll be a lot. The bill was $40. And yet the math has been done here that shows even with increased taxes, the working class citizen would still be paying less out of pocket because those multiple thousand dollars worth of premiums would no longer be taken out. But the "muh freedum" crowd hoots and hollers way too loudly about the "guberment taken my hard earned money and givin it to da poors"...