here's a fun video of john and genna getting associated with their chinchillas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SohwAncACs
i do hope genna uploads more stuff of their animals and stuff.
Damn, I didn't know Genna had cancer too. What a horrible run of bad luck. I hope that she is able to make things work out. It's really awful how one mistake of hiring a shitty CPA can haunt a family for years and years, even up to John's eventual death. That's just horrible.
Oh shit, Genna's been battling cancer since last year as well? Gotdamn.
Over half a million dollars in debt from fucking health care. That is absolutely just... unimaginable to me. In Sweden we have a protective ceiling for shit like this. You pay a maximum of around $120 per year. That's it. One hundred and twenty dollaridoos, and then you're granted a "high-cost protection" which covers everything from hospital visits, to emergency services, to surgeries and treatments. You don't pay a penny above that.
Fix your fucking country, America.
what are you a fucken commie?
Half the country's been made to think universal healthcare is evil.
It's so unfathomable to me how people can perceive it as evil.
Yeah - you pay higher taxes but when your luck runs out you're happy as fuck that you don't need to pay jack shit because your arm got broken, or you need cancer treatment. For free. You aren't hopelessly in debt because you dont have insurance, or because insurance didn't cover it. If you get sick, the state will pay for it.
Only negative thing is if someone got an advanced form of cancer (or something akin to that) that you can't really cure - it usually becomes a ethical dilemma for the hospital if it's worth paying millions just to prolong 1 persons life for a couple years. Been tons of news coverage about that.
It's because repubs would rather have companies take from them than give to "big government".
I'd rather not, those "opposing arguments" are usually fucking moronic and do not deserve attention or rebuttal because perfectly apt rebuttal has been done before to such eloquent extent that nothing more could be said that wouldn't just be ignored for the sake of maintaining a different opinion.
Please feel free to argue those points beyond more taxes
Well whatever the argument is, it's clearly a bad one because our health care systems don't ruin people's lives every day like the US one does.
There's no shortage of stories about people being completely fucked over financially because of that horrid system.
Even right here I'm trying to get through just $1600 in medical debt for going in for debilitating chest pains which turned out to be minor, and it's made me afraid to go to the hospital ever again. If I didn't have insurance I would have to pay $26,000(!!!) for an x-ray and some saline solution.
We don't even need to pay higher taxes. We could very easily pull it out of our extremely bloated military budget.
But no, that'd make too much sense, let's throw another 700 billion at the military instead.
It's considered evil because of politicians branding it as communism and socialist policies so that they can cut corners on what they have to work on and pay for; meanwhile the actual hospitals and doctors radically inflate their prices and gouge direct payments and insurance alike because there's effectively no one that can do a damn thing about any of it. My brother thinks he broke or cracked his left hand and it elicits sharp pain if the hand is stressed notably, but he doesn't want to go to the doctor because of the assumption that he'll just be told "yeah it's cracked" and then his insurance might have to pay out the arse for an inconsequential visit.
We're basically fucked by sleazy corporations and politicians that are in their pockets or even partly run said corporations.
Feel free to 'educate' me on what reasons there are that make my dad having cancer and us having to go through that entire emotional rollercoaster AND having to worry about healthcare costs that would be enough to cripple us for the next 15 years be preferable to having universal healthcare.
By all means, go right ahead. I'm listening.
For reference, in Sweden:
22.96 USD for Doctors checkup.
22.96 USD for X-ray
5,59 USD for Saline Solution
Grand total of 51.51 USD.
Reminds me of this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwantba05Y0&t=502s
TL:DW
American goes to Europe on holiday, breaks his foot, has no international healthcare insurance.
Visits Dutch GP and gets painkiller prescription and Xray recommendation. Visits an emergency room in Germany the next day for the Xray.
€25 for GP visit
€7 for painkiller prescription
€20 for the Xray
€60 for emergency room visit and other costs
The rest of the sensible world does it fine. And I doubt they'd have problems funding it as the US spends 3x as much money than any other nation on Earth towards their military.
https://twitter.com/Totalbiscuit/status/987056018520727553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fs9e.github.io%2Fiframe%2Ftwitter.min.html%23987056018520727553
I'm not going to defend the American health care system, but let's not pretend the NHS is perfect either. There's a reason he was over here for treatment instead of the UK.
I don't wanna really get involved in this flinging contest but the social security(medicare/medicaid) budget is already much higher than the defense budget. If we expanded that to everyone, it'd cost a lot more. We need to deal with the rampant unregulation of the industry before we can get universal healthcare, as well as deal with the issues other countries with it have such as long wait times.
I had surgery right above my tailbone on the day that TB died, and I was really damn grateful I didn't have to cover the actual expense thanks to our healthcare system. It's not great, but I didn't go into debt at 24 just because of butt surgery.
Didn't TB live in the US, which is probably why he was receiving healthcare there?
If you aren't aware, the UK has a system where a treatment can't cost more than this or that for a certain amount of QUALYs. It's not a perfect system, sure, but some cancer (and other) drugs end up providing fairly little benefit for a whole lot of money. It's also a necessary tool for negotiating prices - if you can't say no to a product, you're in a pretty bad spot. If more countries picked it up, chances are drug prices could be lowered a fair bit, since you wouldn't just be able to sell your product elsewhere.
That's under the public system. Most healthcare systems are hybrid and you are still welcome to go run to a private hospital, or even sometimes get the care about public given you're willing to pay.
Government healthcare spending per capita is already pretty similar to several EU countries anyways, due to medicaid, medicare, VA, and various shit the government subsidizes. *
You could probably argue that some of the difference is made up with social spending tho tbh.
This happens in every country, don't buy the idea that perfect healthcare exists. You're even still better in the US than anywhere else for things like certain cancers, transplants, etc., if you have good employer insurance at least.
Really dealing with regulations is the main step you'd need for universal care, that + some subsidies for buying insurance and controls and you'd be p. alrite.
Also long wait times are an over-exaggerated problem that mostly apply to elect things and normal checkups. If you NEED something immediately you're getting pushed to the front, and in universal countries like Germany wait times are extremely low. In places like Canada, dealing with wait times would be as simple as hiring more doctors, building more hospitals, but that costs money and Canadians are pretty happy with what they've got.
https://twitter.com/GennaBain/status/1005092079670910978
I'd only heard that the US health care system is fucked, I'd never seen any figures though. Jesus Christ.
I like to know what's the rough breakdown for the procedures. Why the fuck do they cost this high
Greed and total disregard for human life pretty much.
My impression is that those who perceive healthcare as evil think that people only deserve care if they can pay for it, which is part of the mentality that anyone can become rich and successful if they just work hard enough. Additionally, universal healthcare would increase taxes for those who aren't sick or those rich few who can pay for the extreme expenses, and they despise paying for people who in their view didn't do their job.
So basically, if you can't afford current American health care, the conclusion is that you didn't work hard enough in the past.
With logic like this, I've always wondered what the opinion are on people who get sick young, before they have any reasonable chance to accumulate the wealth needed to be healthy in the US? Say someone 21 years old running a promising startup (so actually in the process living the American dream of bootstrapping your way to wealth) gets real sick and can't afford it? Too bad 'cause he didn't level up enough and got fucked by RNG?
Is America a real-life rougelike?
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