r/MurderedByWords • u/Bad-Umpire10 yeah, i'm that guy with 12 upvotes • Dec 09 '24

#2 Murder of Week 68,000 Americans

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u/FROOMLOOMS Dec 09 '24

A father?!

Each one of those dead Americans ARE fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, people with friends, lives, jobs, and a human heart that loves people.

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u/Illustrious-Pop8954 Dec 10 '24

What is the litmus? How many people should get health care? Everyone? To what extent?

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u/FROOMLOOMS Dec 10 '24

Everyone, and to the extent it not only saves their lives, but makes it bearable. Like every other 1st world country has.

America has one of the worst rated Healthcare systems in the world for its economy.

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u/Illustrious-Pop8954 Dec 12 '24

Medical care is available to everyone in a life saving capacity. Making it bearable is really in the eye of the beholder. The NHS and Canadian healthcare turn down more elective surgeries— many of which are related to chronic pain than the United States. Is that any better?

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u/FROOMLOOMS Dec 12 '24

Infinitely better.

While there are still visible issues with the system, such as under funding, this system is MASSIVELY better than a privatized system.

This coming from a man born dead, with asthma, requiring a week of NICU and 100s of doctors appts to follow up later in life.

My family paid nothing for all of them except in their very reasonable taxes. I would not be alive if my care was up to anyone with profits in mind as I probably cost the American equivalent of 2 million in healthcare by the time I was 18.

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u/Illustrious-Pop8954 Dec 12 '24

You’d still be alive lmao what argument is that? If you are poor you’d be on Medicaid?