health care USA style
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Nirvous,
YES there is something as public healthcare..most of the countries in Europe have public healthcare, in Canada as well. Term public healthcare is used when all people pay a small amount of money to the government to have it, but the good thing is if you ever get seriously ill or you need a surgery or just an examination you don't have to pay for it, you just go and visit the hospital. I just hope that nothing happens to you in the terms of serious surgery of something like that in the US, cause then you would realize how bad things are. Let me give you an example:
I met a guy who worked at SouthWest airlines, he had a good job and his employer covered 100% of his insurance. Then after all this economic sh*t started to happen he got layed off and lost the coverage. His wife has serious health problems and she already had 3 complex operations. One day I met him and the man almost started crying. I asked him what's wrong and he said that his wife's condition is bad again and that she needed another surgery but his new employer only covers 75% of insurance and since the operation costs like $300.000 he needs to come up with $75.000 bucks to cover the whole thing. So what is this man suppose to do? And please don't tell me that it is a normal price for a doctor or a hospital to charge 300.000 bucks for an operation. That's because they have sooo many expenses right? You see, for the wealthy man, or another doctor or a lawyer or whatever it's not a problem to even pay the whole 300.000 bucks, but for a normal person this is unimaginable. I'm not saying that lawyers and doctors and whoever doesn't deserve to get a lot of money, but man they are not the only human beings in the world. Some people actually do not have the money to cover themselves. So now, for these people, they should die, right?
Very cold, if you ask me.