• DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    He asked for free healthcare in his country. I described what it looks like everywhere else as well as what the uneducated think “free” is. Seems I hit some nerves.

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      7 months ago

      You didn’t hit nerves, we’re just laughing at you because you fundamentally misunderstand healthcare outside the United states.

      Don’t mistake mockery for anger. I, personally, feel sorry for you.

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        7 months ago

        As someone not from the US and from one of those systems, that’s exactly how it works but enjoy your copium. Or, you know, tell me what’s so “fundamentally” misunderstood? After all, laughing and pointing achieves nothing if you’re trying to prove someone wrong.

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          2 months ago

          At least here, you don’t usually pay for private healthcare yourself, your insurance does. And because private healthcare can and does limit their services and usually avoids the most costly patient groups, insurance is cheap compared to the US (abt 500€/year for 42F), if you want it. US is in a league of its own in how much people end up paying for healthcare, and they have god-awful population level results to show for it.

          Sure the wait times can be long, usually not years though. But what horrifies me is that there are rich countries where the wait time can be infinite for some people.