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School shootings and no healthcare are not a concern?

by grecy 2y ago

StackRanker3000 2y ago
School shootings are horrible and scary, but the US is a huge country, and your kids are not likely to experience them. They’re much more likely to be hurt or killed in a car accident, but you won’t hesitate to drive them around, do you? The healthcare situation is also horrendous overall, but if you and your family are currently healthy and you have a good job with good insurance (as software engineers tend to), then the risk to you and yours specifically may be low. If you can afford it, you also have access to higher quality of care than almost anywhere else. If I had a severe disease or got into a bad accident, I would want to be a well-to-do American with good insurance living in a major city.
- grecy 2y ago
  > If you can afford it, you also have access to higher quality of care than almost anywhere else. If I had a severe disease or got into a bad accident, I would want to be a well-to-do American with good insurance living in a major city. Have you tested that? Good family friends had a baby in California. They’re both high level teachers, have been for 15 years at this point. Gets complicated, c section. Less that 10 hours later someone comes to the bedside and says this is costing the insurance company $60k a day and they have to move to a new hospital. Now. In their own car. With no wheelchair. With a 10 hour old baby and a wife that just had a c section. They have great health insurance, have paid premiums their entire lives. What a scam. Also, heaven forbid you want to take a year or two off to be with family or write a book or just live. Also my partner currently has 18 month’s maternity leave, fully paid. That is a very, very big no thanks.
buzzert 2y ago
> no healthcare Just a reminder, 92% of Americans have health insurance. California has universal healthcare, and there are more people in California than in Canada.
- grecy 2y ago
  and every year 650,000 people are pushed to bankruptcy from medical bills. [1] and 80% of those people had medical insurance! [1] https://www.citizen.org/article/medicare-for-all-prevents-medical-bankruptcies/ https://www.citizen.org/article/medicare-for-all-prevents-me...
  - buzzert 2y ago
    And yet, despite that, most people seem to agree that it beats living in Canada[0], especially on Hacker News it seems. [0]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-moving-to-the-us-hits-10-year-high-1.7218479 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-moving-to-the-us-...
    - grecy 2y ago
      > most people seem to agree 126,340 Canadians moved to the US out of a population of 38.93 million 0.32% hardly seems like "most people"

School shootings and no healthcare are not a concern?

by grecy 2y ago

School shootings and no healthcare are not a concern?

School shootings are horrible and scary, but the US is a huge country, and your kids are not likely to experience them. They’re much more likely to be hurt or killed in a car accident, but you won’t hesitate to drive them around, do you? The healthcare situation is also horrendous overall, but if you and your family are currently healthy and you have a good job with good insurance (as software engineers tend to), then the risk to you and yours specifically may be low. If you can afford it, you also have access to higher quality of care than almost anywhere else. If I had a severe disease or got into a bad accident, I would want to be a well-to-do American with good insurance living in a major city.

grecy 2y ago
> If you can afford it, you also have access to higher quality of care than almost anywhere else. If I had a severe disease or got into a bad accident, I would want to be a well-to-do American with good insurance living in a major city. Have you tested that? Good family friends had a baby in California. They’re both high level teachers, have been for 15 years at this point. Gets complicated, c section. Less that 10 hours later someone comes to the bedside and says this is costing the insurance company $60k a day and they have to move to a new hospital. Now. In their own car. With no wheelchair. With a 10 hour old baby and a wife that just had a c section. They have great health insurance, have paid premiums their entire lives. What a scam. Also, heaven forbid you want to take a year or two off to be with family or write a book or just live. Also my partner currently has 18 month’s maternity leave, fully paid. That is a very, very big no thanks.

buzzert 2y ago

> no healthcare Just a reminder, 92% of Americans have health insurance. California has universal healthcare, and there are more people in California than in Canada.

grecy 2y ago
and every year 650,000 people are pushed to bankruptcy from medical bills. [1] and 80% of those people had medical insurance! [1] https://www.citizen.org/article/medicare-for-all-prevents-medical-bankruptcies/ https://www.citizen.org/article/medicare-for-all-prevents-me...
- buzzert 2y ago
  And yet, despite that, most people seem to agree that it beats living in Canada[0], especially on Hacker News it seems. [0]: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-moving-to-the-us-hits-10-year-high-1.7218479 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-moving-to-the-us-...
  - grecy 2y ago
    > most people seem to agree 126,340 Canadians moved to the US out of a population of 38.93 million 0.32% hardly seems like "most people"