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In Brazil, a poor 3rd world country, we diagnose that on public healthcare without problems, at any age. I guess money is not the problem, just deciding how to

In Brazil, a poor 3rd world country, we diagnose that on public healthcare without problems, at any age. I guess money is not the problem, just deciding how to allocate it. For those who have insurance, yearly complete checkups are a thing for any adult, and the most basic insurances you get at work you would only pay the first $20 out of pocket for a doctor appointment and a few basic tests. But if you don't have private insurance, you would still get appointments and tests if you have any symptoms, and the doctors are probably going to order a few tests if you didn't do a checkup for more than a year. BTW: in my 15 years as diabetic there, I think I only bought insulin out of pocket 2 or 3 times - because I traveled and either forgot one (it's 2 insulins) or it went bad. Also, most of the time didn't pay for the test strips either. All paid by government. Saves them A LOT of money if diabetics don't get more sick and are able to work. In the times I had to buy, a pen cost like, $10 for the cheap, $30 for the expensive one?

texasbigdata 6y ago
Aren't you guys second world? With that darn acronym Bric? Not to be pedantic but approaching $2k per capita per month is a materially different life and culture than perhaps other comparable cultures at sub $1,000 per person per month
- nine_k 6y ago
  "Second" used to be the communist bloc, led by USSR. USSR was disbanded about 30 years ago, but the idea of numbered "worlds" persist. (I'd assume that Russia and China are first-world countries now.)
  - seniorivn 6y ago
    there are no first world countries among former third world countries, only first world cities
    - oblio 6y ago
      Well, first world regions too, sometimes.
  - Balgair 6y ago
    The late Hans Rosling had a good update to the old conceptions of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd World. His take was to classify based on income levels on a log scale (well, 'log-ish', anyway). Hence the classifications of Level 1 (<$2/day), Level 2 (<$8/day), Level 3 (<$32/day), and Level 4 (>$32/day). This is my preferred way of mentally chunking the world and her people. Mostly because a lot of people are moving on up! https://www.gapminder.org/fw/income-levels/ https://www.gapminder.org/fw/income-levels/ If you've not played around with the stats on gapminder before, go grad a cup of coffee and have some fun! The visuals are good and the interface is one where 4-D data is well presented. In messing around with it, you can see that the world is very much on an upward trajectory, but also has a long way to go. https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$chart-type=bubbles https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$chart-type=bubbles

texasbigdata 6y ago

Aren't you guys second world? With that darn acronym Bric? Not to be pedantic but approaching $2k per capita per month is a materially different life and culture than perhaps other comparable cultures at sub $1,000 per person per month

nine_k 6y ago
"Second" used to be the communist bloc, led by USSR. USSR was disbanded about 30 years ago, but the idea of numbered "worlds" persist. (I'd assume that Russia and China are first-world countries now.)
- seniorivn 6y ago
  there are no first world countries among former third world countries, only first world cities
  - oblio 6y ago
    Well, first world regions too, sometimes.
- Balgair 6y ago
  The late Hans Rosling had a good update to the old conceptions of 1st, 2nd, and 3rd World. His take was to classify based on income levels on a log scale (well, 'log-ish', anyway). Hence the classifications of Level 1 (<$2/day), Level 2 (<$8/day), Level 3 (<$32/day), and Level 4 (>$32/day). This is my preferred way of mentally chunking the world and her people. Mostly because a lot of people are moving on up! https://www.gapminder.org/fw/income-levels/ https://www.gapminder.org/fw/income-levels/ If you've not played around with the stats on gapminder before, go grad a cup of coffee and have some fun! The visuals are good and the interface is one where 4-D data is well presented. In messing around with it, you can see that the world is very much on an upward trajectory, but also has a long way to go. https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$chart-type=bubbles https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$chart-type=bubbles