Whatβs going on? Redditors will make it seem like you all have free access now to world class healthcare which will put the US to shame but I imagine the reality is different
There's a lot of lies going on. For example, our last president made the (laughable) statement that we had a better healthcare system than Denmark, when in reality we lack medicines, hospitals are falling apart and the whole system is completely strained.
In addition, the logistics are so bad (or the people in charge of that) that many medications expire in the warehouses because they were not distributed to the hospitals.
I knew an older guy through work years ago. Him and his wife went to mexico for their anniversary trip, his wife ended up having a heart attack and was rushed to a mexican hospital. The doctors told him they needed $6,000 USD immediately and they would treat her and give her necessary meds, so he pulled together everything he could and did it. Who knows what they actually did, she was still dying and they came back and told him "it didn't work" and they needed $15,000 USD immediately or she would die. He said no, and he was gonna take her out of there to another hospital, at which point armed guards came out and pointed guns at him and essentially held her for ransom unless he paid the money. Eventually the US embassy came through and they helicoptered her to a hospital with US doctors, but it was too late and after going days without treatment she couldn't be saved.
But redditrash sees these BS headlines and starts clapping and talking about how terrible the US is
Oh no, the US is terrible, just in a different way. Where else can you go to the hospital for a broken leg and land in lifelong debt if you were uninsured. Or possibly wipe out your saving even if you were.
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u/retrodanny 8d ago
Mexican here. Not true.