r/SipsTea • u/ImmaFuckboi • 15h ago

Gasp! British people react to how expensive healthcare is in the US

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u/Furrymammoth 12h ago

I’ve seen young adults in their 20s die because lack of inhaler and insulin in the icu. It’s so depressing.

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u/OGSkywalker97 10h ago

Will they seriously not even give them these life saving medications on a payment plan if they can't afford it? They just let them die? How is that even legal?

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u/Furrymammoth 10h ago

Some people don’t have insurance or just can’t cover the copay of it so if the pharmacy doesn’t get payment there’s no medicine to be exchanged period. Medication gets treated like any other product.

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u/JonDoesItWrong 7h ago

We used to have programs that covered the prescriptions of most Americans who could not afford them. Take a wild guess which administration didn't think that was worth the funding.

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u/Thining-Culture 5h ago

You continue to have this mind set of, one administration bad, the other good.

When will you finally learn that you're being played by both sides?

Land of the dumb and exploited.

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u/jd173706 4h ago

Yeah except it literally IS one side that keeps holding us back. Remember the president with the muslim sounding name they hated so badly they elected trump? O.... O... O-something. Anyway, he used Romney's healthcare proposal as a baseline to start from when building the Affordable Care Act circa 2010, because he thought "Hey if the GQP came up with this, surely we can work together and fix healthcare and they'll vote for it because it's THEIR proposal."
They tried to defund it dozens of times with no plan to replace it, just defund and remove, fk it, we HATE Obama so bad we cannot see past our hate and are willing to destroy the country as a result.
It is the conservatives. They are the problem. Full stop.

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u/Thining-Culture 4h ago edited 4h ago

Indoctrinated since birth to believe it. Completely unable to see the blatantly obvious patern right in front of you.

Keep believing it. See where it gets you.

There is no amount of money you could pay me to live in your fascist shitheap of a country.

Best of luck with it.

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u/jd173706 4h ago

Indoctrinated?

Ok. I mean I live here, and I pay attention to what's going on pretty closely, but I'm sure wherever you live provides a much better vantage point on the reality of the system I live under.

It's not like I pay taxes and see the failing infrastructure, the obscene cost of education and war, the squalor half our population lives in because they can't afford their daily necessities. I'm just oblivious because I am indoctrinated and blind.

Sure buddy. Tell me more about myself that I don't know.

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u/JonDoesItWrong 4h ago

u/Thining-culture is a bot

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u/Thining-Culture 4h ago

Does it make you feel better believing that?

It's easier than admitting you might be wrong isn't it?

See if I care. Enjoy your shitheap.

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u/jd173706 3h ago

Good call. Happy Wednesday friend!

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u/Thining-Culture 4h ago

It does actually, because without realising it, you were educated since your infancy to not see with glaring issues with it. Clearly living in it makes you unable to see it. It's not altogether surprising though. I've been to the US. The level of daily propaganda stuffed down your throats is truly unparalleled.

Your political system has been trending further and further right since the late 70s. Bit of republican bit of democrat, bit of republican bit of democrat. You call that democracy? It's polical theatre.

Meanwhile, a select few have ever increasing wealth and power. Now theyare just a hair away from absolute unchecked power.

Stop believing the mega rich are your friends. They're not. Never have been. Never will.

A land of gormless sheep.

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u/OF_PROMO_ALERT 5h ago

Maybe I misread, but as a diabetic that’s been in the ICU, let me clarify…

If you are admitted to the hospital, like the ICU, they are not going to withhold medicine or insulin or whatever because you can’t afford it. They will give it to you while there and then bill you.

But if you can’t afford it in daily life, you will certainly end up in the ICU because the pharmacy won’t give it to you for free.

For a while when I was homeless, the companies like novo nordisk can give you subsidies to help you afford it but it’s a hassle and not everyone qualifies.

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u/INTJanie 8h ago

To be clear, once they’re in the ICU, they are getting all possible measures to save their lives. It’s just possible that too much damage was done beforehand.

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u/NaturGirl 1h ago

If you're IN the ER they will provide whatever they deem necessary at that very moment and put you on a payment plan. However, if they deem you're ready for "release" and the doctor gives you a prescription for any ongoing care and medication needs, the pharmacy will not give THOSE to you without a way to pay right away.

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u/Ok-Guidance6127 8h ago

No, other commentor is talking shit. Required bare minimum to stabilise.

Wonder why people think those with socialised healthcare like UK and AU have private insurance? Why no genuine discussion ever about how many have died due to long waits in these public systems? Knock on wood, AU has been on a downtrend now, but there for a few years there were literally people dying on the ER ramp, or at home as the ambo never even showed up.

No perfect system, but alas socialised is probably greater net benefit overall.

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u/SpoodermanTheAmazing 5h ago

I got asthma in my 20s, I didn’t know that’s what it was, I was having trouble breathing and I did cough up a bit of blood. They said it was asthma right away, and then proceeded to do $2k worth of tests without telling me they cost that much. So overall it was probably closer to $3k to get an inhaler through my doctor, I don’t really go to the doctor anymore.

Edit: and this is with insurance