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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There are public healthy systems that just won’t offer that operation. Or you’ll have a 1.5 year waiting list. So in the end, unless you’re rich and pay for private insurance, it comes out as the same.

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  • CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    People in Australia do experience medical bankruptcy. It’s incredibly rare now. But it’s true. But it used to be so much worse before we had a public health system. And health outcomes were worse as well. And it cost more.

    www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-18/…/11124180

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      An article just yesterday about the same happening in Switzerland

      rts.ch/…/covid-long-delais-de-2-ans-pour-une-rent…

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      • Deway@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Not it’s not about that at all. This is about someone not getting disability checks, not healthcare, two very different things.

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  • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, that happens sometimes. But in this case the price of an operation will be drastically cheaper.
    I had this situation in Germany, there was a minor operation I needed to have which was not life threatening so the one that insurance covered had a waiting period, so I decided to go pay outnof pocket and it was around 800 euro. The cheapest price I could find in US for it started at 11000 dollars.

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      For sure. But now imagine your disabled and on disability income, where you get payed 1k a month and are living in poverty.

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      • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If you’re disabled and on disability income, it will absolutely not cost you 800 euro. You will be put in front of the queue for the free one. That’s why I, able bodied working person with slightly above median income, had to wait. And I think it’s as fair of a system that is possible under the circumstances.

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      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        For every case of a disabled persion on benefits having to wait 1.5 years for a non-urgent operation because they can’t afford private healthcare, there are a million of cases of people who get a common problem like Diabetes or Cardio-Vascular problems and get treated for free (down to getting the medicine for free, which for a person below the poverty line will be true even for the worst countries).

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    there’s still waiting lists in the US.

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