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You know I wasn't going to respond to your comment, but as someone who has seen people used as a mere piece of flesh to defuse landmines, I have to say you have
by snowpanda 9y ago
You know I wasn't going to respond to your comment, but as someone who has seen people used as a mere piece of flesh to defuse landmines, I have to say you have no idea how lucky you are to live in a country where you were even able to write your comment from your computer, in your house, with electricity and hospitals nearby. Seriously one of the least productive comments I've seen on HackerNews.
- amake 9y agoPeople shouldn't complain about the sorry state of the US health care system because... other people have it worse? > I wasn't going to respond to your comment Maybe you should have trusted your gut on that one.
- Daishiman 9y agoOh come on, I've been around the block to countries that are substantially poorer than the US where people don't have to give up their life's savings for a medical intervention.
- kamaal 9y agoActually the parent poster to your comment is right. Most Americans go to other countries as tourists and largely have no idea how hard everyday life there is.
- jacquesm 9y agoQuite a few Americans go to other countries to use their cheap/free healthcare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_tourism Note that America is hardly unique in this respect and is both a destination and a source of such traffic.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoCheap is relative.
- kamaal 9y agoLet's talk about this. Americans go do medical tourism because even the relatively poor to lower middle class Americans can afford luxury medical care in third world countries, what the ordinary citizens in those third world countries can't even dream of. By the way current day US citizens have may be a factor of thousands times more opportunity, freedom and economically supportive ecosystem in all of human history combined, including the current humans anywhere in the world. I can say this as a Indian, who stayed for a few years in the US and came back to India. Little do US citizens realize how easy they have it and how much privilege they have compared to the remainder for the world.
- Daishiman 9y agoSorry, but India is not remotely close to a comparable country. However, medical services in even poor European countries, so some wealthy Latin American countries like Uruguay, are far better than American alternatives.
- sundvor 9y agoThere are countries such as Norway and Australia that provide free healthcare. From their point view, taking into account the ludicrous amount of money that the US possesses, the comment is definitely not without merit.
- hux_ 9y agoYup they are free to run cutting edge science and R&D and supply the world with free medication since they have it all figured out. The only reason they don't is...well I'll allow the expert commenter above explain it.
- Daishiman 9y agoBecause there aren't medical trials and pharma research institutions anywhere else aside the US...