It’s true, we are beyond pathetic.
The only one country
Submitted 2 months ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to workreform@lemmy.world
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TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
mrmisses@lemmy.world 2 months ago
🇺🇸 shit hole country 🇺🇸
Racoonwithbenefits@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
What defines a “major country”?
Belgium, finland, denmark, and norway are quite small
bunnybunny@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Good point, but you still don’t have healthcare
thedarkfly@feddit.org 2 months ago
I wouldn’t say that the Nordic countries are minor. As a Belgian, I’ll abstain on the status of Belgium.
But in no way I’d call Luxembourg major 😄
Anyway, this classification is subjective and reveals the personal biases of Sanders towards, apparently, rich countries.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, yeah, he obviously talks about rich countries, that’s the whole thing. It’s easy to say why poor country wouldn’t have good universal healthcare, but for a rich one there is no excuse.
mirshafie@europe.pub 2 months ago
Yeah, it’s more interesting that countries like Iran and Vietnam have very cheap or free basic medical services. Sure you might not get all of the resources that they can provide you in Sweden, but the principle is the same.
Lemmert@reddthat.com 2 months ago
As Belgian, I can explain that with the fact that we are short kings
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My guess is it’s a nicer way to say the common “1st world nation” terminology that developed after the world wars and modified a bit for economic growth and such.
Most “1st world nation” lists will be between 30-40 these days. 35 in this list
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I once collapsed on the streets in Russia when I was an exchange student there. Started seeing a message bubble over and over in one eye, then collapsed, I couldn’t get “help” out. Idk what happened or how I got there but I woke up in the hospital. Someone must have called an ambulance and I had a CT scan of my head while I was out. They did blood work and whatnot. Got food, it was just oatmeal and bread, but I mean, it’s something.
I had traveller’s insurance and wackily tried to explain that this is common and a “I pay out of pocket they reimburse me” thing instead of Universal Basic Insurance so they decided nah not worth it just go home. I haven’t paid a single cent. I’m not even sure I’m in their records, although I did show my passport.
I was in the ER on another trip to Russia, they really can’t be bothered. Checked me for appendicitis and thankfully I was cleared for a flight home.
I mean they were hella rude and have that typical baseline of Russian angriness and annoyance but you know what, I got taken care of well.
Allero@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I’d say Russian medics are less angry and more tired and overburdened a lot of the time. This does reflect on their attitudes, but that’s not out of bad intent.
But yes, what you said is true, and that’s how it should be. Honestly, I’d rather just have emergency medical service get free of all that insurance paperwork and just do their thing. It’s not that they’ll ever deny medical service anyway.
volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
In my case I think they really were angry because I am a Russian (only) citizen but I have never lived in Russia. I don’t hold an inner passport, only an outer passport (absolutely unfathomable to them), and I actually did at a point try to get the basic insurance set up, but I would have needed the inner passport for that. For them it was absolutely whack that I am a Russian citizen that has no Basic Insurance number and my very special circumstances (to add to that, at that point I was fluent in speaking and absolutely illiterate in reading and writing) were too complicated for them to follow and “every person has an insurance number wtf you’re Russian wtf is wrong with you just go and get a fucking number what’s your problem wtf why don’t you have a passport everyone has a passport from age 14 onwards wtf what is wrong with you” was absolutely the attitude.
But really, I understand, my situation was very complicated and my reasons were valid but going into all these details in a clinic, let alone an ER setting, would absolutely tire and drain the last remaining energy out of them. I absolutely prefer them being not lovey dovey and hand holding while telling me with a compassionate smile that they cannot do a CT scan without an insurance number, but instead getting necessary treatment and analysis on the spot. I don’t care if you call me names. I’ll forever be grateful to them.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
MediCAID for all.
For anyone who walks in the door. Healthcare is a human right, and we should all support this.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
New Zealand mentioned as a major country. Very funny Mr Sander’s
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Hey, I was hoping to say that!
Saapas@piefed.zip 2 months ago
>Finland
>Major country
Lol. Lmao even.
ddplf@szmer.info 2 months ago
Sorry bud, but you guys are pretty fucking important to us - Eastern Europeans - right now, not gonna lie.
plyth@feddit.org 2 months ago
There are wait times and a tendency to turn healthcare private by making the public option not good enough. Enough countries are on their way to copy the US.
The big problem is that the prices are decoupled from the costs. The US healthcare system would be affordable if insurance companies couldn’t negotiate for their own rates.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Hehehe Greece a major country.
IPeaceInYourFace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
America is not a major country.
Saapas@piefed.zip 2 months ago
It’s the third most populous and fourth largest by area. First by far in nominal GDP etc.
Definitely a major country
IPeaceInYourFace@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s big… But it’s people are poor.
That’s not a major country.
aoidenpa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
America is a third world country, and people don’t recognise it… and I think that that’s pretty god damn sad, that they don’t recognise their own country as a third world, third rate, third class slum.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Shut up.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wake up. We maybe a really shitty attitude country, but, still one of the most “major” countries.
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 2 months ago
America’s the fuccin’ worst
greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
And they just cut more funding 😑
kibblebits@quokk.au 2 months ago
Too bad that isn’t gonna happen.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
>We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
-Ursula K Le Guin
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I live in one of the top countries and health insurance is almost required. Now its not as expensive but it could be thousands a year.
Doctor is expensive and difficult to get.
The US sucks but we suck too, just less.
blackbeans@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
However the goal is still to provide everyone with healthcare. If you cannot avoid the insurance you will get a subsidy or even an exemption in most countries.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 months ago
penguins of antartica.
wpb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TIL: Indonesia, population 288 million, is not a major country. I wonder what makes a country major.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah… someone should do something about that.
I love you, Bernie, and you are one of the only ones I trust, but people are being murdered in the streets, it’s 50 degrees in the shade, we’re in a forever war with no goals, and all the water and electricity is being flushed down the toilet to make uncanny valley youtube homunculi explain how cryptocurrency works.
You can’t build a tower while the foundation is a burning swamp.
banause@feddit.org 2 months ago
You can work on several issues at the same time. Especially when the time to result is so long as in politics.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And yet, no Bernie, we won’t.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You missed Taiwan.
Jhex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
major?
lividweasel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Western”
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, he included Japan and South Korea, among others that aren’t strictly “Western.” They are all US allies, though, which makes sense for a US Senator.
Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Brazil isn’t there tho
affenlehrer@feddit.org 2 months ago
Maybe compared to Liechtenstein and Vatican or something like that
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Hey NZ is major now, don’t take that away from us!
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
High income
buran@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Colombia is not high income and it’s one of the most unequal countries in the world.
Dicska@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hungary?
Alfons@feddit.org 2 months ago
Maybe he explicitly selected countries which declare in their constitution that access to healthcare is a basic human right. Again, this is just an assumption by my side.