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  But will they go up $2700/mo? Because that’s how much I pay for health insurance for my family.  I don’t know how people afford insurance.
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. >
  
  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. >
  
  Lately "socialism" also applies to corporations deciding not to host hatred on their platforms or being more inclusive. "Socialism" literally means "thing I don't like" to conservatives. >
  
  “Born into this: into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die”- Charles Bukowski >
  
  You seen the prices funeral homes charge you for dying? That grift is lobbied just as hard >
  
  Just because we're bereaved, that doesn't make us saps. >
  
  Is there a Ralph’s around here? >
  
  The day after the ACA was passed, about 14 years ago, all we ever heard from the Republiscums in D.C. was that they were going to "repeal & replace it with something cheaper & better".
  14 years.
  In 14 years they've produced absolutely nothing.
  The Repubs had the house for Obama's last 6 years. The Repubs had the White House, house & senate for 2 years under Trump and still had 2  of them his last 2 years.
  What have they offered us??
  Absolutely nothing >
  
  To be fair, they did earnestly attempt the repeal part. John McCain's iconic thumbs down vote stopped that though. >
  
  And a surprise SCOTUS decision. I think (some) conservatives know they have nothing better and will suffer if they simply repeal. >
  
  Was that decision before or after Amy Cony Barrett? >
  
  Show us a graph with the inverse relationship between shite healthcare and enormous profits. >
  
  My hometown had two hospitals, one bought the other and closed it. Moved the E.R. To a separate building with doctors offices. They will not send long term patients to the main building because they’d have to eat the ambulance cost so now patients have to pay for an ambulance transfer to the larger city and take all the risks of death if they are in that state. >
  
  In Sweden the hospitals are financed by each region, and a few years back there was a new drug against a rare condition that was the difference between being able to live and work and being disabled.
  The challenge for the hospital is it cost an obscene amount of money and if the region was unlucky with several people with this condition that would be a hard hit in the budget.
  … so the national government stepped in to socialise the costs in these extreme case.
  There’s a lot of problems with Swedens health care system too, but at least that’s a base expectation of keeping society healthy. Even if you’re a carpenter and not say the owner of Twitter. >
  
  Yea it's legit crazy. I remember when the USA tried to do universal health care and I thought holy crap this is a step in the right direction. To this day am still completely baffled by anyone who is against universal healthcare and access to all through it. Like people are so dumb they are against something that can help everyone. I have no words at this point. >
  
  My taxes will go up.
  Yeah, but you'll save all the money your employer is taking out of your paycheck for healthcare, and they'll save all the money they have to spend administering all of that bullshit. It'll end up being cheaper for everybody. And if you ever have to leave that job for any reason, you won't have to worry about losing your healthcare. 
  But my taxes will go up.