• tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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    5 months ago

    I think it is a bit unfair to speak of rose colored glasses there.

    There is many people in the US who simply cannot afford an ambulance being called for them, if they are in a serious health situation. The people that have “rose colored” glasses in this context are the people whose options are “any healthcare” and “no healthcare”.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, I’m not sure it’s fair to compare the insurance they got through their employer at $400 a month with the basic free tier of a system of universal health care.

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      5 months ago

      Fair comment, but don’t think that I don’t know how it is. I lived in the US for 28 years. The first 19 or 20 of which I had no insurance of any kind and was also fairly poor. I know all about not being able to see a doctor when sick or hurt.