I dont know where this person got their numbers, but the prices are WAAAAAAYYYYY off.
I had a relative need an Ambulance ride next year. less than 1/4th a mile to the hospital. the cost was over 5000 dollars.
last time I went to the emergency room, I got nothing but a chewable asprin, a bag of saline, a basic blood test and chest xrays and it was almost 40 grand… and that was with the “filthy uninsured peasant” discount, which I know thats what the charts focused on, but its ridiculous how much more expensive it is with insurance, even if you dont see the cost to your wallet.
Ooh we should also add in the cost of monthly lifesaving medications.
My leukemia medication (sprycel) is listed at $16,794 per month. I’m over 40, and I’ve barely made over $20k a year for only a few years in my life. Per month it costs more than half as much as what I have been making per year my whole adult working life.
Guess I’ll just die then.
And if you are insured, they will just straight up tell the hospital they can’t treat you sometimes.
This is one of the biggest things that make me irrationally angry - screeching about death panels like they aren’t already paying $300+ a month to companies who serve literally zero purpose except standing between you and the Healthcare you pay for so they can tell you that you don’t get the Healthcare you pay for.
That’s the most significant thing keeping me from relocating to America. I prefer not having to choose between physical and financial death.
Soon even in Europe, already need 50€ for doing analysis at hospital, with a waiting list of 1 to 2 years. Public healthcare is falling apart versus private one.
50+ years of neoliberalism dismantling the public system will do that.
The only people who can’t stand universal Healthcare are corporate suits who stand to profit from privatization and redneck dumbfucks who have never left their state much less the US.
And I’m guessing you don’t work for UHG.
I love and depend on the NHS - but it’s being starved of money and stretched thin on purpose. Policy makers don’t have to use it, and don’t have a waitlist.
And everyone keeps voting for the team of rich fucks that want to dismantle it and force inflate private healthcare on all, lining their pockets. Disgusting
What a great thing that all that money saved by Brexit now guys towards the NHS. /S
I love how people who screech about ‘white genocide’ are also the people who see something like this (especially how expensive it is to have a baby) and usually want to keep it this way, never mind that most of them aren’t actually benefiting at all from keeping it like this.
tbf there’s a reason why “smart as a racist” never really gained momentum as a metaphor
It’s the freedom to make people that want to live bankrupt alright.
In Denmark visits to GP’s, specialists and hospitals are free. Prescription drugs are subsidised on a sliding scale meaning that adults will pay a maximum of USD 640 a year for their prescriptions.
Dental care is not covered though, leading to a huge disparity in dental health between the rich and the poor.
American reply: IT’S NOT FREEEEEEEEE!!! YOU PAY 800% INCOME TAX! REEEEEEEEEE!
My total income tax is around 38%. I reckon that to be less than what burgerlanders pay in income tax, insurance premiums and co-pays.
that’s not even counting how much the health insurance industry is subsidized by state and federal taxes.
The US is #1 in spending as a percentage of National GDP on healthcare.
Also the US: is #47 in life expectancy.
The US is getting fucking robbed by their medical industry. Of course I expect nothing less from the nation that had AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, etc steal $400B for Internet they never built. Which is also the nation that spent $700B on banks to “save” them.
Damn, I need a loan from the bank of the American taxpayer.
