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That's a pretty dramatic oversimplification of one of the most disgusting, inhumane disasters in modern civilization: US healthcare.
by happytoexplain 8y ago
That's a pretty dramatic oversimplification of one of the most disgusting, inhumane disasters in modern civilization: US healthcare.
- andrenth 8y agoUS healthcare is one of the most inhumane disasters in the history of modern civilization? What is this bubble you live in? Have you been to a third-world country? Have you been to a communist country?
- ihgan 8y agoI live in a third-world country, and we have public healthcare freely available for all
- andrenth 8y agoHow's the quality of this public healthcare? How long does it take for an appointment or surgery?
- ihgan 8y agoIt varies by state/city. In my state, basic care is ok: ER pretty much works, same weekend appointments for general practitioners, maybe more for specialists. I don't have direct experience whith surgery, but I had family members on cancer treatment, and the public health system was better in some cases than the private one.
- andrenth 8y agoWhere do you live, if you don’t mind me asking?
- scottlocklin 8y agoI agree that some perspective is required here, but it is pretty amazing how terrible it is. Like, we've been to the moon, have stuff like google to search through tons of information without leaving the bathroom, and people are trying to convince me we'll soon have useful quantum computers and autonomous vehicles, but it still takes me 3 hours to book a checkup with a doctor, and the soonest they can see me is 3 months from now. Then there's the billing system, which seems to have been devised to fill the maximum number of people's rice bowls. To say nothing of what happens to the uninsured. It's nuts.
- iron0013 8y agoA communist country like Cuba, where life expectancy is higher, infant mortality is lower, and healthcare costs are a small fraction of the USA's?
- andrenth 8y agoYes, like Cuba, that paradise where people jump into a sea with sharks in the hopes of escaping to the nightmarish US. https://mises.org/power-market/dont-trust-cuban-health-care-statistics https://mises.org/power-market/dont-trust-cuban-health-care-...
- dang 8y agoWould you please stop taking HN threads into ideological flamewar? The comment upthread shouldn't have been so provocative, but that's no reason to take the bait and do worse. Also, we've asked you this before, and continuing to violate the guidelines in this way eventually gets you banned here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- andrenth 8y agoWhy is my comment ideological flamewar? I have linked to a page that cites an academic article about the fake statistics from Cuba. How is that doing worse? Worse than what? I also find it interesting that of all comments in this thread you chose mine to reply and threaten me with banning, given the absurdities that have been said above. This speaks volumes about the moderation here. You are clearly fine with "ideological flamewar" as long as it's your ideology.
- dang 8y agoThe flamey part wasn't the link, but the use of snark to make a shallow political point. We can't read all the comments on HN, or even in any large thread, so that logic doesn't work. If you take the time to check, you'll see that we've often moderated comments that cross the line in the opposite ideological direction. Ideological rage is destructive here regardless of which charge it carries.