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91.4% of Americans have health insurance. https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-274.html https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/de
by gillibob 5y ago
91.4% of Americans have health insurance.
https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-274.html https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...
I'm Canadian, east coast. Our Health Care system is garbage and a lot of people end up going to private hospitals because the public sector can't handle the load, even pre-covid.
People have repeatedly died waiting in hospital halls waiting for care that never came.
Our healthcare system has almost nothing to be taken example of
- Insanity 5y agoA friend got a head injury (kid kicked her on the ear pretty hard) and had to wait about 5 hours in the ER before they could see her, they sent her home saying it would be nothing bad. Two days later she went back and they concluded she had a concussion..
- nopenopenopeno 5y agoA man recently died of a heart attack in my local ER’s waiting room 10 minutes after showing up complaining about heart pain. The only reason he died is they didn’t have enough staff on hand. This was a couple of months ago, in the US. A few nurses walked out crying and never came back when it happened. My sister used to work at the hospital as a nurse and she quit because of similar things that were a regular occurrence. It’s all about saving money. “Just In Time” healthcare.