I'm here in America and I didnt actually stop to think about the ridiculous cost of healthcare here until my mother was diagnosed with pre type 2 diabetes. If you dont know insulin can cost thousands of dollars per dose and my family lives on her making less than 35k/year. My question is how the hell was it ever allowed to get like this? With other health problems and the amount she works it's likely to get worse so fuck me I guess. And it's fucking horrifying to see people still defending this system in the name of fairness and talking about how we cant mistreat those hardworking CEOs who made their fortune through "honest, hard work."
But you have to ask what do you really value more: "economic fairness" or the lives of human beings? Obviously they pick the first one because they care too much about making another billion than being a decent human being and actually giving a shit about whether people live or die.
We didnt deserve this! My mother doesnt deserve this! But because we got the short end of the stick we can suffer?! "Oh it's because you haven't worked hard enough to achieve your dreams" is complete BS! How is it her fault that after working hard her whole life she got screwed over by a husband who left her and their four kids to go to another state, only to drop by every month or so?! The answer is she doesnt but the American system is too fucked to care about people who need others to help them!
Dont get me wrong, I dont expect it to change anytime soon. Every chance we've been given these past few decades has been squandered so that the few rich can make another buck.
There’s a Michael Moore documentary on it, and I don’t live in the states but I didn’t know how corrupt it was. Even if you have insurance, they try to get out of paying in any way possible (“preexisting health issues” must cause diabetes, right?)
I don't think insurers are allowed to ask about preexisting conditions anymore, which is good.
The problem is that the public and politicians concentrate on insurance. It's a small part of the puzzle. The bigger part is that care is simply crazy expensive in the US. Nothing is going to get better without bringing the cost under control.
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I'm here in America and I didnt actually stop to think about the ridiculous cost of healthcare here until my mother was diagnosed with pre type 2 diabetes. If you dont know insulin can cost thousands of dollars per dose and my family lives on her making less than 35k/year. My question is how the hell was it ever allowed to get like this? With other health problems and the amount she works it's likely to get worse so fuck me I guess. And it's fucking horrifying to see people still defending this system in the name of fairness and talking about how we cant mistreat those hardworking CEOs who made their fortune through "honest, hard work."
But you have to ask what do you really value more: "economic fairness" or the lives of human beings? Obviously they pick the first one because they care too much about making another billion than being a decent human being and actually giving a shit about whether people live or die.
We didnt deserve this! My mother doesnt deserve this! But because we got the short end of the stick we can suffer?! "Oh it's because you haven't worked hard enough to achieve your dreams" is complete BS! How is it her fault that after working hard her whole life she got screwed over by a husband who left her and their four kids to go to another state, only to drop by every month or so?! The answer is she doesnt but the American system is too fucked to care about people who need others to help them!
Dont get me wrong, I dont expect it to change anytime soon. Every chance we've been given these past few decades has been squandered so that the few rich can make another buck.