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> But as a software engineer in the US it is not a worry. Like not at all. Cool. What about the rest of you, the majority of people who are not in tech? I get
by capableweb 6y ago
> But as a software engineer in the US it is not a worry. Like not at all.
Cool. What about the rest of you, the majority of people who are not in tech? I get the feeling that many Americans don't worry about services as long as they themselves are covered, while many go without.
- sneak 6y agoIf you ignore national boundaries and just look at human beings in general, basically the entirety of the global west does precisely this. ~half of the humans don't even have internet access.
- capableweb 6y agoThe list of countries without "universal government-funded health system" is smaller than the list of countries with it. US (together with Uganda, Yemen, Jordan and some other countries) is pretty lonely with its healthcare system. In general, the West does not work like the US when it comes to healthcare. And when you compare globally, the US still has the highest "Health Expenditure per capita", far higher than any other country really. There is no way to spin it, healthcare is absolutely terrible in the US and gets worse every year.
- sneak 6y agoI wasn't trying to spin the healthcare situation, just to point out that "fuck you, got mine" isn't really unique to the USA, but is echoed in the entirety of the global west. One just needs look at the vaccine distribution situation to see this writ large.
- kmonsen 6y agoIf they would let me I would vote for M4A, and give every American decent healthcare even if it would raise my taxes a bit. But that is beside the issue in this thread. All software engineers can safely move to the US and not worry about healthcare. Personally I would not move now as I think democracy is dying, but that is a different concern I guess.