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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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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You’re vastly underestimating the number of disabled and poor people and you’re vastly overestimating the number of things that are covered.

I get your proud of your country or your system or whatever, but please don’t minimise the experience of already marginalised groups.

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- Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Mate, as I’ve said it’s not one but TWO countries I lived in with Universal Healthcare, and you can’t be a Nationalist (as you’re trying to imply) for TWO countries.
  
  If you’re comparing like to like - i.e. the average poor disabled person in both a country with Universal Healthcare and the US - you’re going to get some cases of those having insufficient treatment in countries with UHC (especially in those were neoliberal governments have been defunding their UHC systems to try and privatise Healthcare even against popular will, like the UK), whilst the vast majority of those people will be fucked in the US (unless they’re Veterans).
  
  I’ve lived in several countries and it’s just an enormous piece of mind living in a country were you know that if you’re involved in an accident and end up getting costly treatement in an emergency ward, you’re not going to be ruined.
  
  I think you’re seeing the problems relative to a specific baseline and you think that there are massive problems there (which I’m sure there are) but the thing with the US system is that the baseline itself is way worse and all those problem you see would also be problems there but much worse (or maybe not, as those people would die a lot faster) and on top of that in the US there are way more people with even worse problems with in comes to Healthcare than the “poor disabled person” in a country with UHC.
  
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  - FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Dude I’ve lived in France, Switzerland, Austria, and the UK.
    
    I’m not trying to tell you universal healthcare is bad.
    
    I’m trying to say the statistics on the meme are false and ignore a lot of suffering and death.
    
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    Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Fair enough.
    
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  - captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Oh veterans are fucked here too. Imagine the nhs but worse, now imagine you had to join the us military to get it
    
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