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Everyone needs to simply go to a pharmacy or a doctor's office outside the US one time. If everybody did that, the US Healthcare system would be doused with gas
by jaybrendansmith 1y ago
Everyone needs to simply go to a pharmacy or a doctor's office outside the US one time. If everybody did that, the US Healthcare system would be doused with gasoline, lit on fire, and be burned like the trash that it is.
- const_cast 1y agoI think this is literally it. I talk to so many people who claim up and down the US healthcare system is fine and I just think, "man, the only way you can think that is if it's all you've ever seen!" Because it's not even about money, forget money. Everything in the US is hard. There's so many different steps, so much fighting, so many portals, so many hoops. So much friction to absolutely everything you do related to healthcare. Even paying! You'd think the people taking your money would've figured out the fastest way to do that but nope, you're getting bills from the hospital 3 months later and there's a dozen of them for some reason.
- jaybrendansmith 1y agoAbsolutely. I walked into a pharmacy two weeks ago in Costa Rica because my son had a strange bug bite that looked a bit infected. Doctor saw us in 3 minutes, checked out the bite, and sent us away with antibiotics. Cost was $25. That same situation in the US would have been a 3 hour ER wait and likely hundreds of dollars. Again, there's only one solution: burn it down and start over, ideally with the government as the primary insurer. For those who work in the insurance industry: Is this really what you wanted to do with your life? You wanted to deny health coverage and sensible procedures to your fellow human beings?