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This is hyperbole. Healthcare cost might be covered, but there are a lot more expenses with being sick. Social support and housing support in the UK is laughable. Good luck if you cant work because of disability. The hospital will keep you alive…and then discharge you to the street.

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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
True … even here in Canada social systems are not as good as they could be … but imagine trying access shitty social services AND PAYING FOR MEDICAL SERVICES… or worse being in over your head because of medical debt!

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- Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Met a homeless guy once who had had his jaw broken over some change. Even he was able to go to the hospital to get fixed up. It didn’t solve his myriad other problems but at least even he could get that taken care of.
  
  Any system which would have turned him away should be burned to the ground and the people who built said system should have the flesh flayed from their bones, slowly.
  
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  - ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    … or … just take away all their money, wealth, connections, opportunities and not allow anyone to help them … then throw them on the street in Detroit and break their jaw.
    
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    Soup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    I could be convinced of that. I still want flay a couple of them, though. People like Elon just need to be fucking erased, honestly.
    
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- HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  But how is access to medical and mental health treatment and options for it? Is there a ton of variety?
  
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HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Does UK have any social security disability or retirement other than what is relied upon by an employer? Just wondering.

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- cRazi_man@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Yeah there are a bunch of benefits you can claim from the government: www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/benefits-check/
  
  Healthcare is also not tied to any job or anything.
  
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  - HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Seems about equal to Social security disability but, SS is worse because they don’t really tailor your payments to your housing expenses and needs. If they did, the government might even save money. I know people around me that just use most of their check for weed. If it was guaranteed to only cover your bills with a smaller spending allowance and they asked for monthly bank records to prove you were using government money wisely, there would be less freeloaders and more reserve for those who retire and have paid into it. More people who proved they could work, or who abused the system would be called out and forced to work, and those with true disabilities could stay on it.
    
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