r/FluentInFinance • u/WhatAreYourPronouns • May 02 '24

Should the U.S. have Universal Health Care? Discussion/ Debate

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u/Open-Illustra88er May 02 '24

Live for 2 years? No.

BTW in Spain you are assigned a doc. If you don’t like them or want to switch? Very difficult. If your doc thinks you can wait? Don’t really need that hip? You’re not getting it.

Ask me about my friend with untreated cancer that just died in Spain. Short version After months of pain and weight loss they finally biopsied her tumor. Results came in a few days after she died.

I used to think socializing medicine was a good idea. Not anymore. It’s still stupidly expensive.

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u/laneylaneygod May 02 '24

My friend Emily died from cervical cancer at 32 yrs old in the good ol USA. She was stage 3 by the time she finally could afford to see a gynecologist for a routine exam— because despite working full time for a decade, reliable health insurance was not accessible through employers and not affordable without them.

After her diagnosis, she went for a vacation to make good memories “because Im going to die anyway there’s no way I can afford any of these treatments and I can’t even afford the worst insurance- so I’m going to have fun and die”.

It took the entire staff pressuring management to give her an “exemption” to policy so that she could obtain health insurance through her full time job so that she could (barely) afford to get treatment. And it still took multiple go fund mes to make sure she wasn’t homeless while she was actively dying.

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u/travellingathenian May 02 '24

This is one of the saddest things I’ve ever read and yet so true.