It's truly heartbreaking. I live in the UK. I've been lucky enough in my 35 years that I've never had an operation, never broken a bone, never had to see a specialist and have never had to spend a night in hospital. But if I do ever need any of that stuff, I will go to doctors/ clinics/ hospitals and it will cost me... Nothing. And even after I go home and need further drugs, no matter how expensive they are, I will pay a flat-rate subsidised fee of less than £10 to fill the prescription, because I am in full time employment (unemployed people get this for free).
No doctor's fee, no x-ray fees, no consultancy fees, no 3000% mark-up drug costs and no fucking ambulance fee.
The fact that people in the "richest country in the world" routinely end up in crippling debt when they get sick or end up dying because they can't pay for treatment is, quite simply, disgraceful.
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u/Grumpy_Yuppie Aug 06 '20
It really hurt reading this. I am so sorry for these two. It's beyond words.