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If you can't leave USA, you got to just get your bag and understand that you need a lot, more than what people think is normal. You can pay for private medical

by ftxbro 3y ago

If you can't leave USA, you got to just get your bag and understand that you need a lot, more than what people think is normal. You can pay for private medical care it's just expensive. Like it's too expensive for people who don't inherit wealth and aren't lucky or hustlers of some kind.

sergiotapia 3y ago
I can leave the USA. And having to pay so much for healthcare already, it sickens me that I need _more_ to be taken care of in this country. That's why I'm curious what other people are doing here. I'll hit the eject button on the USA at some point if things don't change.
- ytNumbers 3y ago
  Be careful where you move to get free healthcare. Lots of countries have free healthcare. However, since you're worried about getting cancer when you are old, you also need to consider that, in a lot of countries that offer free healthcare by rationing it, you may have to wait several months to get the cancer treatment you need to survive. You could wind up dying while waiting for your scheduled "free" surgery. As you might imagine, cancer can spread very quickly if left untreated. The links below cover cancer waiting times in Canada and the UK. It's sad to read some of the comments mentioning a four month wait to get treated for cancer. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/waiting-your-turn-2022.pdf https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/waiting-... https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/10/cancer-waiting-times-latest-updates-and-analysis/ https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/10/cancer-waiting-... Since most people would prefer critical services to be free and promptly rendered, it wouldn't surprise me if people wanted to dispute the above links. Since I would also love to live in a perfect world, it would be great if someone could provide data on countries that offer free (and timely!) cancer treatment or if they could find data to refute the above links.
  - fpierfed 3y ago
    For my wife the wait period was 8 days and the bill was 300 Euro (cancer). We live in the Netherlands.

by ftxbro 3y ago

sergiotapia 3y ago

I can leave the USA. And having to pay so much for healthcare already, it sickens me that I need _more_ to be taken care of in this country. That's why I'm curious what other people are doing here. I'll hit the eject button on the USA at some point if things don't change.

ytNumbers 3y ago
Be careful where you move to get free healthcare. Lots of countries have free healthcare. However, since you're worried about getting cancer when you are old, you also need to consider that, in a lot of countries that offer free healthcare by rationing it, you may have to wait several months to get the cancer treatment you need to survive. You could wind up dying while waiting for your scheduled "free" surgery. As you might imagine, cancer can spread very quickly if left untreated. The links below cover cancer waiting times in Canada and the UK. It's sad to read some of the comments mentioning a four month wait to get treated for cancer. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/waiting-your-turn-2022.pdf https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/waiting-... https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/10/cancer-waiting-times-latest-updates-and-analysis/ https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/08/10/cancer-waiting-... Since most people would prefer critical services to be free and promptly rendered, it wouldn't surprise me if people wanted to dispute the above links. Since I would also love to live in a perfect world, it would be great if someone could provide data on countries that offer free (and timely!) cancer treatment or if they could find data to refute the above links.
- fpierfed 3y ago
  For my wife the wait period was 8 days and the bill was 300 Euro (cancer). We live in the Netherlands.