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> How many hundreds of NHS horror-stories are produced a year? Less than the millions of horror stories produced by the lack of anything like the NHS in the US
by decimalenough 1y ago
> How many hundreds of NHS horror-stories are produced a year?
Less than the millions of horror stories produced by the lack of anything like the NHS in the US.
That number is not just hyperbole. There are on the order of a million homeless people on the US, and 50-70% of them cite medical debt as a major reason why. This is literally unimaginable in any European country.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> This is literally unimaginable in any European country America (19.5/10k, of which 12 unsheltered) has fewer homeless per capita than, in increasing order of homelessness, Czechia (22), Austria (22), Sweden (26), Serbia (29), Canada (29), Germany (31), Latvia (35), Greece (37), Luxembourg (38), France (49, of which 4.5 unsheltered) and the UK (56, of which 0.9 unsheltered) [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_homeless_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_ho...
- decimalenough 1y agoYour source itself says the numbers are not directly comparable because of different measures of homelessness, and the US is widely reckoned to undercount: https://www.opportunitynowsv.org/blog/invisible-people-region-likely-undercounting-homeless-population-significantly https://www.opportunitynowsv.org/blog/invisible-people-regio... Nevertheless, medical debt is a significant driver of homelessness in the US, while it is not one in the EU.