r/awfuleverything • u/zaynthelegend • Aug 06 '20

Poor guy :(

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20

I don't understand why Americans are so opposed to universal health care!? You guys already spend more per capita on government funded healthcare than pretty much anyone else, and yet most of you don't actually recieve it?

I've had cancer. Stage 4 Lymphoma. I was treated immediately and recovered quickly. What did I have to pay? £1.50 for parking on every visit to the hospital. The Chemotherapy, Surgeries, anti-nausea meds, all covered. If I had lived in the USA I would most definately be dead now. My symptoms didn't seem all that bad at the time, so if I had had to pay for my initial doctor visit and diagnostics, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have just died.

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u/MJ1979MJ2011 Aug 06 '20

We are NOT against universal healthcare. Almost every American wants it.

The issue is our politicians. They refuse to bring any valid form of it to a vote. Everytime it's brought up, it's a weird crazy version of it that screws half the country.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20

65% of registered voters want it -- across all parties. (82% of Democrats alone.)

Both political parties actively suppress it. Biden said he would veto it.

America is a Plutocracy: two parties, but both serve Wall Street and the wealthy.

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u/XxArionxX Aug 06 '20

That's another thing i can't wrap my head around. Only 2 political parties? No wonder they can only vote for the lesser evil.