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Medical debt should not exist. Making the situation slightly less awful isn't do-gooder idealism, it's a tiny step in the direction of a sane healthcare system
by __loam 2y ago
Medical debt should not exist. Making the situation slightly less awful isn't do-gooder idealism, it's a tiny step in the direction of a sane healthcare system that nearly every other developed country on the planet somehow is able to have.
- hollerith 2y agoAre you saying that medical debt does not exist in every other developed country on the planet?
- __loam 2y agoIt's far less likely to completely ruin your life than in the US.
- andrewjl 2y agoIt effectively doesn't if the healthcare system is single payer.
- multjoy 2y agoIt does not.
- explodingman 2y agoIt doesn’t exist in Australia
- hollerith 2y agoThanks for the info.
- defrost 2y agoAmerican exceptionalism includes medical debt, not using metric, tipping as a substitute for a living wage, equating social policy with communism, and all manner of other things.