40 Times People Shared How Messed Up The US Healthcare System Is

As an ex-pat living in Norway now I will never move back to the states. Nope. Never.

Remember when trump said it would be easy... and then he made nothing happen with his healthcare plan?

And we aren't one of them by a long shot.

Well said!

My Swedish husband likens the American "safety net" to a very thin tightrope. If you manage to land on it, you only get cut in half. I moved to Sweden when we got pregnant to enjoy all the advantages of raising a child in a social democracy.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if the US taxed people just 3-5% higher and actually taxed huge corporations like Amazon, we'd be like the other 32 developed nations. It's such a simple solution! I really don't know why all of us don't band together and change how health care and insurance work in the US!

Why can't political idiots see this - because most political idiots are rich!

This is disgraceful. Glad I live in Australia!

The irony is how Republicans tout their pro-family stance, but refuse to give a fraction of an inch to healthcare.

This reminds me of “Death of a Salesman.”

I know for an absolute fact, because of my surgical history and litany of daily medications, that if I lived in the USA I would be dead by now. Either due to untreated medical conditions or to avoid sending my entire family into generations of crippling debt.

This is so true. During the height of the pandemic I was terrified of getting sick because of this. I still have medical bills floating out there. The absurdity when you think you're having a heart attack, go in and it's a panic attack and you end up with a $15K medical bill for a 4 hour hospital stay where they used an EKG machine, gave me morphine and I took up space. That's it.

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I got Covid, was in the hospital 9 days, 4 of which in ICU, $98,000. I have insurance but I am sure I will be in collections for my part of the bill.

One of my friends on Facebook posted in the height of the pandemic that her son had covid and then a few weeks later he died and his parents had to make a gofundme to get enough money to cremate him. About a month later she showed the hospital bill, over 500,000 dollars. No insurance. Then the dad got covid and also died, again gofundme to pay for the cremation. Another huge bill for the hospital treatment for her husband. She said goodbye to all of us on Facebook and then she killed herself. Horrific. Another friend told us that she had rushed over to her friend but she was already dead. Unimaginable that a country would allow this kind of medical treatment to the patients

This is pathetic and in a country where most of its citizens consider the country to be the most modern and greatest in the world. What a joke!

THANK YOU. Sorty to yell, but I am so tired of hearing it's the diet or the walking. No, when they get a back pain, they get a CT right away, not three months later! (Just one example.)

Japanese too!

Omg. I had a really REALLY bad stomach ache last week, was better the next day but still went to the doc just in case. Turned out to be nothing. I paid $0.

BUT COMMUNISM!! /s off

Dan Price is the man!

The American health care system is the wonder of the world. As in, we all wonder why Americans put up with a system where people have to set up go fund me pages for minor procedures which are free in just about every other country. We wonder why you allow health care insurance companies and their shareholders to become rich from the illness and misery of people they are supposed to 'serve'. We wonder why you think that universal healthcare funded by a modest levy on all taxpayers is 'socialism'. We wonder why the rich in America are getting richer faster than ever before while the poor are getting poorer. We wonder these things and we are soooo glad we don't live in 'the best country in the world'.

'The USA is considered a developed country because....?

The price of a kidney is around $100,000 to $200,000 so charge them for the organs at the highest prices and they will owe you!

What??? The innate nastiness to this system knows no depths

I was in an MVA in 2017, lying in the road all my bones broken (ankles-above-my-shoulders-broken.) Bleeding from my skull. I just saw red paramedic suits and shouted I can't afford this please leave me here. I didn't want to survive and see that bill. Luckily it was covered by a Road Accident fund I was unaware of at the time.

European citizen here. I’m not sure how to say this, but we do not consider the USA as this kind of Valhalla that every other nation should aspire to. I mean, so much money but zero social security, fantastic healthcare but half the population doesn’t have access to it, random people carry guns, the police force kills people and nobody bats an eye, death penalty is still enforced, should I go on?

Wasn't it Norway that advised its citizens not to travel to "the USA and other Third World countries".

Oh, I don't call us anything but pathetic. I'm *in* medicine. My adulthood has been spent watching it spiral into a profit-motivated scam. It's pathetic that I have to have "patient-centered medicine" as a cause. All medicine should be patient-centered, by default!

Not only that: The US is supporting Israel with money which they partly use to fund universal healthcare for their own citizens.

Exactly!

That is so cruel and inhumane. As if losing your child isn't bad enough.

What a screwed up country.