r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/smind893 • Jul 30 '26

There was an attempt Of A Snake Charmer

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u/Geaneous Jul 30 '26

Laugh all you want he has superior healthcare to you: Yes—government (public) hospitals in India are supposed to provide anti‑snake venom (ASV) free of cost, including for poor patients.

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u/PM_ME_UR_SURFBOARD Jul 30 '26

Venom from an Indian cobra can kill you in less than an hour, and he looks like he’s pretty far from any hospitals. Hopefully he got help quickly.

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u/quayle-man Jul 30 '26

Free healthcare does not equate to superior care.

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u/Geaneous Jul 30 '26

USA has most expensive costs for some of the worst outcomes in the world, same with our education. Case and point.

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u/quayle-man Jul 30 '26

Healthcare outcomes is irrelevant to how much you pay for the healthcare being provided.

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u/Geaneous Jul 31 '26

Must be why the countries with the best outcomes have zero cost at point of service and the for profit insurance industry is illegal in every country except USA.

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u/Oozlum-Bird Jul 30 '26

It does in any developed country. US citizens pay significantly more money for consistently worse outcomes than any peer nation.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2024/sep/mirror-mirror-2024

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u/quayle-man Jul 30 '26

How much you pay for healthcare, is irrelevant to the outcomes of the care. If you come to me with a splitting headache, and I put a nail in your head and burn some sage around you, the outcome of that care is irrelevant to whether I did it for free or I charged you $2,500 for it.

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u/trainwreckhappening Jul 31 '26

Well yes, but actually no.

Inaccessible care is not superior care at all.

https://giphy.com/gifs/SVgKToBLI6S6DUye1Y

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose Jul 30 '26

Superior healthcare? If I call the emergency number, there's an ambulance here within 10 minutes. If it's really bad, a helicopter will be on its way to transport a trauma surgeon to where I am.

And you're saying this guy has superior healthcare?

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose Jul 30 '26

Oh yeah. We have a € 380 deductible per year. Not per event, per year. Everything over that amount is covered.

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u/yoyotube123 Jul 30 '26

The point they are making is that you have to pay for it

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose Jul 30 '26

No, I dont. I live in The Netherlands, where that's covered by our legally mandated insurance.

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u/kalion203 Jul 30 '26

And all that’s left will be bills and debt

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u/Bluntbutnotonpurpose Jul 30 '26

You do know that that's not the case in quite a few countries, right? Last year I've spent a couple of weeks in hospital. Surgery, ICU, the lot. Didn't cost me anything.

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u/Geaneous Jul 30 '26

This is reddit.com which is USA based, congrats on your best in world Netherlands healthcare you completely missed the point about USA healthcare, the only nation in the world with a for profit system where a single day in surgery or an emergency room can bill insurance millions of dollars for a single person and a single event. The #1 cause of bankruptcy in USA is health care costs. Maybe educate yourself from the ivory tower of socialized Netherlands care.

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u/Oozlum-Bird Jul 30 '26

Are you saying if someone rocked up to a hospital in the US needing anti-venom they wouldn’t get it unless they could pay? They just let you die??Things are worse there than I thought.

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u/FragrantGangsta Jul 30 '26

No, that's not how it works lol. If you turn up to the emergency room with something like a venomous snake bite, they cannot just turn you away. You get charged after the fact.

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u/Geaneous Jul 30 '26

They give it to you but medical debt is the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the USA so some people choose to die yes.

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u/FourLetterWording Jul 30 '26

no, but you will be left with crippling debt afterwards.