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In America, anyone who earns $20k a year with with a 2 year old is going to get free medical care, too. I have several kids and my medical care is free up until
by trollbridge 2mo ago
In America, anyone who earns $20k a year with with a 2 year old is going to get free medical care, too. I have several kids and my medical care is free up until we make about $55,000 per year. If we had no jobs, same thing.
A close relative of mine (who is single) also had cancer and had 100% of it paid for.
Transportation costs are also paid for, although we never needed overnight accommodation so far.
My prior experience was in Australia was a youngster under a particularly terrible universal care system in the 1989s, and then in the 2000s when I lived in Canada.
I get a little weary of the refrain about how American healthcare is terrible, esp. for poorer people - it’s actually very good.
- testing22321 2mo agoWhy are 27 million Americans without healthcare, are why is medical bankruptcy so common? A massive percentage of the population don’t have and/or can’t afford healthcare. By definition, that is not a good system.
- limagnolia 2mo ago1)People who choose not to buy insurance because we don't force them to. 2) Adults in the remaining states that chose not to extend medicare who don't earn enough to qualify for ACA subsidies. 3) Adults who qualify for subsidies but still can't afford relativly expensive ACA plans. 4) Others? Not sure if that number includes noncitizens who don't qualify for assistance?
- testing22321 2mo agoThat sounds extremely complicated and confusing to navigate. We’re checking out of hospital right now after an overnight stay for my 2 year olds surgery. Never a single piece of paper, and of course no bill. They’re sending us home with the pain meds we need for the next week, plus a stack of yogurt and jello for the little one. Life is pretty simple when you want it to be.
- cindyllm 2mo ago[dead]
- trollbridge 2mo agoWell, by definition, someone who can’t afford it is eligible to apply for and receive assistance. I know plenty of people who are eligible and simply don’t want to apply.