The US: The richest country in the world. And also a country where a simple question can yield answers that will break your heart - and your head on the table.
The Question is:
And answers are like this:
"Watching my best friend’s father go from serene acceptance of his lymphoma diagnosis to shame and despair on his deathbed two years later that his treatment had permanently impoverished his wife and son. When my father received his own diagnosis, he refused all treatment instead." (@sisyphusmyths)
And those stories go on, with slight variations.
for comparison: My father had first cancer, than heart attack (got stences), than stroke in roughly 2 years time.
In these 2 years he (and everyone else) paid less in those 2 years than for his simple burial.
Yes, if you work you have to pay a part of your earnings into insurance. About half of what an insurance in the US costs. And it pays for 2 people (the half of population that does not work).
via BoingBoing: https://boingboing.net/2019/05/05/all-on-medicare.html
twitter thread:
I don't really understand the American health care system but in Australia we have a universal medicare that at least supports most people to have some sort of medical safety net. Companies and jobs do not provide health insurances in the contracts, because the country already has that covered.
A portion of our taxes fund it.
Sorry about your dad and everyone else suffering in America :(