In the end it costs America more anyway, I don't see why they don't just give people free healthcare.

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Who gives a f**k? You're paying, and he wouldn't have been able to.

As a parent of a special need child, New Jersey school systems offer speech, occupational, and physical therapies as a part of their school day. They have dedicated ABA classrooms with very low teacher/student ratio (my son's is currently 2/5. A lot of the anger at US services is out of ignorance, including parents not knowing what is actually available for their own children, which is obviously sad.

Didn't you know that it's a sin to be poor in America? All good religious people should shun the poor, it's what Jesus would want. /s

It's both funny and depressing watching people so utterly destroyed and dependent on this broken system defend it.

His wife and child are fine, thank f**k. I hope those nurses never have to experience that fear and pain, racist piece of shits.

She's ok now right? My sister in law was bleeding internally after childbirth and when she told the nurse how much pain she was in she was told "you just had a baby, it hurts, stop complaining". No joke. She nearly died.

Wait, WHAT?

This is sort of the way females are perceived in the medical field. For some reason, it's believed that we have a higher pain tolerance than men do. A man and a woman could have the same type of procedure done and the male would receive a decent dosage of pain meds vs the female who's prescribed extra strength ibuprofen/Tylenol. I've witnessed it as well as experienced it myself.

OMG, this is so horrible. This reminds me of when we lived in Guatemala, we were a bunch of Canadians working on a mining operation. There was a Guatemalan woman in the village that had had her 4th or 5th child all of which had dried shortly after birth. One of the women in our group commented that it probably didn't bother her as she was probably used to it by now. I had to pick my jaw up off the floor, I was so shocked! I couldn't speak for about 5 minutes and by then the conversation had moved on to something else.

WHAT!?! That is unacceptable behavior and just stupid thinking to boot!

If I had a second wish from a genie, I'd wish that everyone who causes any harm by negligence or malice that could have been avoided without causing equal harm to themselves would feel the same amount of pain on themselves unless they make it right.

For more fun, a white woman takes her white foster daughter to the doctor for menstrual cramps, is given options to manage the pain, including oral contraceptives and stronger pain meds. Black foster daughter is told by the _same_physician_ that it's not that bad, she's exaggerating, she doesn't need oral contraceptives. Black foster daughter then told "We know what you really want. Birth control. You don't need it. Just keep your legs closed." White foster mom spoke w clinic's manager to express outrage, transferred both young women to a new clinic (same healthcare network, different location), and worked with other patients to file complaint against ignorant doctor. You trust your elders, and your mentors. And if you have been told since your days in medical school, that Black people have a higher tolerance to pain, and women often exaggerate their level of pain, you want to believe your mentors.

What? Omfg. There's a special place in Hell for people like this.

SL, you must live in the least racist part of the US. Here along the Ohio River, those of us who work with black and white clients and often interact with medical personnel on their behalf, have encountered this. It's not always as blatant as in this post, although it sometimes is. It's a medical professional, looking you straight in the eyes and telling you that your client, a middle aged woman if color, is exaggerating their level of pain from their cancer, because "we know she has a high pain tolerance". But last week, the same medical professional treated another client , a white woman with a similar diagnosis, with compassion and upped her meds. The belief that Black people had a higher tolerance to pain literally used to be in medical textbooks in the US, and if you don't believe that, go back and look at books from the 50s and 60s. Today that false belief is passed on from generation to generation of medical professional, not every doctor or nurse. But enough.

So what race is it that supposedly doesn't feel pain?

What!

WTF?!

Where on Earth did this happen?!

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WTF?!?

What the hell!?

Excuse me???

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WHAT?! Was this in Texas or something? I'm outraged.

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This is a false post, don't be so gullible.

That's an outrage.

The Vietnam War was not justified and just resulted in more deaths. There was no "Domino effect" in Asia like they thought there would be. Millions dead, for f***s sake. Edit: Yeah idfk how I made that mistake but thank you

Look, through an honest lens, at the treatment of various peoples through the roughly 250 life of the U.S. and it quickly becomes evident that what America says it stands for doesn't really ring true. In the literal founding document of the country it says that it is a self-evident truth that all men are created equal and the country has not, at any point in its history, been able to live by that simple and self-evident truth.

No kid(or anyone) should go hungry in any part of the world.

For profit prisons are the shittiest thing ever, and the healthcare system is just as broken. Don't want to lose everything to pay for the treatment of a life threatening condition or injury you can't control? Guess you're f****d

Hubby had a heart attack in December 2021, then a stroke in October 2022. We had just about paid off my cancer treatments. I fear we'll never get out from under this

Please stop downvoting this person. They have a right to their opinion :)

I was forced to live in a hotel at one point, ironically, is more expensive than an apartment but it's the payment plan

What ever happened to free speech?

And people not vaccinating because #freedom :/

The system favors the rich, f**k everyone else.

"Essential" apparently doesn't mean enough to pay us a living wage.

It's like one moment you're sipping fine wine and the next you're drinking river water.

The rich will always be favored. Rich people like to say "Money doesn't buy happiness." but b***h poverty doesn't buy anything.

People who were born rich have no concept of money or struggle, what it takes to get overcome that struggle.

"You have money? Good, after this you'll have none" - A health insurance company ._.

I went around and around with a former cop, who retired and worked with me at his 2nd career. I asked did he (Floyd ) deserve to die for allegedly passing a fake $20? "No"..., and the cop that choked him dead was a training officer? "Yes".., and in your training, were you advised that if you held someone in that hold for too long you risked killing them? (eyes down) "Yes"

That orange f**k and his followers are to blame for a lot of that, though.