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Salaries in the rest of the world look great when you realize that in Europe you're not one medical incident while unemployed from utter bankruptcy
by Arainach 2y ago
Salaries in the rest of the world look great when you realize that in Europe you're not one medical incident while unemployed from utter bankruptcy
- DiscourseFan 2y agoAlmost nobody in the US is in that state either. Yes, the system has a lot of problems, but coverage is generally quite good and the quality of care is better than many places in Europe (the UK for sure, but that's a bad example).
- Arainach 2y agoThis is not true. 2/3 of bankrupt filings in the US are due to medical costs - a number which does not capture the high levels of medical debt carried by people who do not declare bankruptcy. https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/scheinman-institute/blog/john-august-healthcare/healthcare-insights-how-medical-debt-crushing-100-million-americans https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/scheinman-institute/blog/john-au... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6366487/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6366487/