What's worse is that millions of people actually find the idea of paying a dime for anyone else's healthcare disgusting. And we don't even get to have a super low tax rate. We just spend our tax money on murdering children across the globe instead of caring for our own. Millions of us see it and oppose it but our society is just sick enough with enough asshole republicans gaming the system in a way that keeps us from doing a fucking thing about it. I wish we were as civilized as nations like Germany.

It's all manipulation, Americans are not quite as psycho and as selfish as we seem outwardly. In general, unless you're talking about bigotry and deep-seated prejudice, most of the dumb stuff Americans believe, we have been essentially force fed.

In this case, for historical reasons I don't remember ATM, it became normalized for employers to offer health insurance and for that to be the primary way people obtained health insurance. Combine that with the strategy to teach poor white people to hate on minorities, as a way to feel superior to someone and thus less angry about their own lot, and you can start to see how the link between employment and healthcare can be seen by some as a moral situation - the person without the good job to get the healthcare must be lazy, and since we don't want to encourage laziness, it's therefore acceptable (even preferred!) not to take care of them.

I can't stress enough how much effort is put into teaching a huge portion of America to fear and hate, constantly. We wouldn't be this bad otherwise, we're pretty normal folks by and large. Even pretty kind and generous, often. We've just been really fucked up, and very deliberately.

Was really weird watching “Breaking Bad” just as I had cancer myself years ago (Cancer-free today 🙂).

Congratulations, friend! 🎊

And as long as our government ain’t complete dicks

By "complete dicks" you mean people like Friedrich Merz?

Hence Breaking Bad: Canada edition

Those are luxury bones!

Privilege is blinding. The dentist can't fathom how a "normal" person they are speaking to couldn't afford to go to a dentist. It doesn't even register. The dentist then must assume it was pure laziness or apathy.

The "in-network" thing is anyoing. As long as the place has a license and hasn't been a issue, they should be "in-network".

Having insurance tied to a job doesn't help either. if you/family member needs specialist care, so you find a fantastic doctor, but oops your job changed insurance provider and now your doc is out of network.

Complaints aside, if you're actually having trouble finding a dentist; go to your insurance's website, they probably have a "find a dentist" tool or something.

This is why dentists in the US decided to not make themselves part of the same system as other medical doctors-- The ADA vs AMA. They get to make their own rules and more importantly, deals to get paid.

And full cash money rules over whatever any insurance company decides to pay you.

Insurance companies designed their policies to maximize profit over patient care. Dentists said fuck that racket

Antibiotics for colds or flu will not help because those are viral, not bacterial. A general doctor should have given you a referral to a specialist. But Antibiotics would be stupid

I hate going to hospitals, especially in cities. They really don't seem to care unless they can physically see how injured you are. I saw an independent nurse and a walk in clinic before they both said to go to the ER when I tore something inside my abdomen. Waited 15 hours to be seen, struggled to breath without pain, and passed out from pain during the Xray. The Dr said I passed out from anxiety and sent me home with nothing and no advice.

One of the absolute worst experiences I've had at a hospital, and all I wanted was to make sure it wasn't my gall bladder. Of course they also charged the obscene US prices too

The last time I went to the doctor was over a year ago, and it was because my mouth/throat was in so much pain I called my friend, who lived 30 minutes away, and begged her to come take me to urgent care while bawling my eyes out.

The initial nurse that comes in is this dude, and I hate male medical professionals when I'm male-presenting: it's like this fucking machismo bullshit. He's trying to do the thing where they swab your throat or are just looking back there, and he's asking me to open wide, and I'm trying but I'm in excruciating pain and apparently couldn't open wide enough.

So he drops his hands in this exasperated/annoyed gesture and goes, "C'mon man, it's not that bad, open up."

I lost it. "Get the FUCK out of this room and send the actual fucking doctor in here! How dare you tell me I'm not in fucking pain when I can't fucking swallow or breathe without tears welling up! Get the FUCK away from me, NOW!!!!" Funnily enough, my mouth was open plenty wide after I lost it on him, and he scurried out the room as soon as she got his swab.

Woman doctor comes in a few minutes later, sees me bawling my eyes out while my friend is comforting me. Doctor doesn't give me any shit while she's examining me, and turns out, I had a serious infection behind my tonsils, not strep like douchebag kept telling us it probably was while telling me to "man up."

Doctor gave me some steroids and told my friend that my, "throat was in really bad shape," and that she was putting in a rush order for antibiotics at the pharmacy. I was to take the pills immediately when we got home, and again roughly 4-6 hours later (this was around 4 o'clock).

She ended our visit with, "Listen, if you take the second pill around 10, and if you're not feeling any better by 10:30, you need to go to the ER for emergency surgery, those tonsils are gonna go septic." But "c'mon man, it's not that bad." 🙄

The pills worked, I survived, but my blood boils just thinking about the whole situation and how comfortable that dude was in his attitude towards patients in pain.

Well, most people think they are middle class.

No, its geared to be as addictive and pleasurable as possible.

It just so happens that both carbs and sugar are pleasurable, and by coincidence also the cheapest part.

Many countries outside America does not cover dentist in social public health services.

They like premium bones or something.

In my country we have public healthcare but not dentists. If you want teeth you have to pay.

Sorry to hear that, I hope you get treatment soon. Isn't it amazing how the world thinks our medical system is so great? There have been multiple deaths at the hospital near me of people waiting to see a doctor in emergency... not to mention people I know who would still be here today if the doctors in that same hospital were halfway competent, but since they can't be sued for malpractice, nothing happens...

The public health system here in Canada is very broken and the politicians have been pushing to move towards a more privatized system like the US. It's only a question of time before we get the same problems. Here in quebec my wife has had to get a private doctor because she simply couldn't see a doctor in the public system anymore.