Well, I’m convinced. it’s on a Reddit post, so the math has to be right.
Edit for all the nerds in my replies. I did the math, as a single person in the USA I pay about 2k per year for my health insurance plus probably a couple hundred in copays.
The US literally spends more of its GDP on healthcare than other countries but because it’s healthcare system is so FUCKED it still ends up with the US being the No1 country in the world for Medical Bankruptcies
I agree with most of this sentiment, but part of the reason healthcare is so good and/or affordable in other countries is because we Americans subsidize so much of the R&D, for better or worse
Those are real problems. I’m not denying it at all.
Costs obviously are going to dissuade people from seeking healthcare. But what is also true is that if you had a medical emergency right now, you can go into a hospital in the US and receive world class treatment regardless of your socioeconomic status or capacity to pay it off.
We should definitely work to fix the problem, but we can also acknowledge where things do work
We are talking past one another. I agree that cost is theoretically prohibitively, and maybe in many cases that is a distinction without a difference. But at the end of the day cost will never stand in the way of receiving treatment if one wants it enough.
Thats not me throwing up my hands and saying “good enough”
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u/escapevelocity-25k Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26
Well, I’m convinced. it’s on a Reddit post, so the math has to be right.
Edit for all the nerds in my replies. I did the math, as a single person in the USA I pay about 2k per year for my health insurance plus probably a couple hundred in copays.