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Admittedly I didn't dive much into this to get the full context, but it's saddening to me that a legendary game designer had a GoFundMe. I was hoping achieving that level of status in a traditionally well-paid industry would leave one well off, financially.
Considering the James Van Der Beek of Dawson's Creek fame is having to hold a fundraising auction of his memorabilia to fund his cancer treatment, cancer is expensive in the US.
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90 minutes for an ambulance seems like a systemic failure. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-64254249
Yes that example highlights a failure, so we should look into the science to see what is happening: > New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care > 29 Feb 2024 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02-29-new-study-links-hospita...
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It works insofar as quotes that sound wise but have no kind of evidence backing it up often do.
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Even if I were so inclined, I'm not the one making grand claims about every economic system in the world. You're the one who has to prove your claim.
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It's definitely going better than the US, where you basically need to beg people for treatment money. I'm not sure what "not going so well" means, in that regard, since virtually every other developed country is doing better than the US on this.
90 minutes for an ambulance seems like a systemic failure. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-64254249
My mom here in the states needs a hip replacement and she can’t afford it because she’s maxed Medicare.
You mentioned ambulance. My wife called an ambulance for our kid who tripped on something at a park and a rather hysterical person told her she needed to call an ambulance right away. Pressured, she did so; our kid was fine. But we then owed $3,500 for the ambulance. Though we were paying on a payment plan and never missed a payment, the bill got turned over to collections for some unknown reason. We got it sorted it out but it took about 15 hours of work to resolve and fix our credit.
I’ve found that my Canadian relatives complain often about the system but very few seem to truly understand what is good about that system.
Pick your poison. Like many things here in the US, healthcare in the US is great if you have money, bad if you don’t.
Im inclined to blame the US healthcare system. It looks like a gofundme was setup to pay for her cancer treatment. A sensible system a) wouldn’t need patients to pay for treatment and b) might have caught it earlier through regular screening
Im inclined to blame the US healthcare system. It looks like a gofundme was setup to pay for her cancer treatment. A sensible system a) wouldn’t need patients to pay for treatment and b) might have caught it earlier through regular screening
So nobody dies or cancer in places with universal healthcare?
Admittedly I didn't dive much into this to get the full context, but it's saddening to me that a legendary game designer had a GoFundMe. I was hoping achieving that level of status in a traditionally well-paid industry would leave one well off, financially.
The United States is the wealthiest nation on the planet according to Forbes, richer than the subsequent three nations combined. It’s a tragedy that our own citizens are not the direct be beneficiaries of that wealth. I think a lot about the scene in Star Trek IV when McCoy is in a hospital and says “what is this the dark ages?” Gofundme is like a kafkaesque tragic absurdity that - hopefully - will be looked at as an…
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90 minutes for an ambulance seems like a systemic failure. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-64254249
I’ve lived in both Canada and the US. My grandma in Canada had to wait 9 months for a hip replacement. Even though the government provided help with paid aids, it was not a great situation. My mom here in the states needs a hip replacement and she can’t afford it because she’s maxed Medicare. You mentioned ambulance. My wife called an ambulance for our kid who tripped on something at a park and a rather hysterical pe…