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  There's definitely a difference in rhetoric. Many conservative Americans automatically attach the label "socialism" to anything government. Even when it's not socialism.
  Most don't even know what socialism is. They just heard from their parents and grandparents that it's apparently bad.
context: And a whole bunch of conservative meaniehead jerks are trying to get Canada doing the same shit. By intentionally fucking up our public Healthcare.
  Fuck "starve the beast" libertarianism >
  
  It's a huge talking point for conservative Americans to say that, while our healthcare system is too expensive, the one in Canada is somehow killing people. Nevermind the fact that Canadians are just by the books healthier than Americans. >
  
  Well, in Canada our life expectancy is higher, we have a much lower infant mortality rate, and nobody has to fear going bankrupt over medical bills, but our system isn’t perfect.  Unless your condition is life-threatening, you’re probably going to be waiting awhile for treatment.  I remember around 2008 or so, the GOP were trying to claim that Canada had ”death panels”, where a small group of people decide if a person would live or die.  This has never been true, it’s a horrific, inhuman idea, and the GOP are loathsome scumbags for trying to scare people into voting against their own best interest like that. >
  
  In the US they have those too: it's the small group of people deciding that insulin shouldn't be paid for by tax dollars, for instance >
  
  In the US we also often have to wait for non-life threatening conditions. It's taken me weeks or months to be seen for different issues. After all, private healthcare providers make more profit by keeping staffing to an absolute bare minimum, and (especially in smaller cities) you rarely have real "competition"/choice between providers. >
  
  I need a prescription refilled for my asthma inhaler - my asthma since getting Covid has gone from 1-3 attacks per year, so pretty minor, to having 7 in 4 months.   
  I called my GP in November and was told since they hadn’t seen in me in a year, (wonder why) they couldn’t refill my prescription until they had and the next available appointment was March.
  So I’m paying waaaay more and still have to wait just as long, if not longer than someone in Canada.
  (I did finally get to see the doctor, last week, because I kept calling to check for cancellations) >
  
  Do telehealth/video visit. Tell them you just need your prescription refilled for your inhaler. Done. 
  Even if your insurance doesn't cover it, you can usually find something for $25-40 and you can do it almost immediately. I have the option through my insurance app, but YMMV. >
  
  I've done that for some things! >
  
  
  Compared with other high-income peers, the US has the shortest life expectancy at birth, the highest rate of avoidable deaths, the highest rate of newborn deaths, the highest rate of maternal deaths, the highest rate of adults with multiple chronic conditions, and the highest rate of obesity, the new analysis found.
  
  All while the US spends almost twice as much % of GDP on health services and fails to provide any health care coverage to tens of millions of its citizens.
  The US has the most inequitable and least efficient health care system in the world, by far.
  Why? What aspect of its history lead the USA to become so exceptional? >
  
  
  What aspect of its history lead the USA to become so exceptional?
  
  Capitalism baby... pure capitalism. >
  
  Europe has capitalism. Yet, they manage to provide healthcare to all citizens without the threat of bankruptcy. >
  
  But here in Europe, we don't think socialism is automatically bad, or that socialism and communism are synonymous.