True cost of US healthcare shocks the British public

In the UK, an ambulance callout costs you £0 in medical bills. The birth of your child costs you £0 in medical bills. In the USA, it's a different story.
We asked members of the public to guess how much they'd have to pay for simple medical services in America, and what they think about the NHS - an all too valuable asset during the coronavirus pandemic.

[@PoliticsJOE]

The Mayor of London doesn't like Donald Trump visiting his city. We sat down with him to discuss their beef kzbin.info/www/bejne/aou9o5ZrmshqrM0

[@MasterofPlay7]

britian needs a strong leader like Trump!

[@MasterofPlay7]

​@N S lol there's something called private health insurance you know? And you get the best healthcare, not some public bs which is slow and unresponsive and outright corrupted

[@MasterofPlay7]

@N S lol salty, healthcare is a monopoly anyways. People died all the time in public healthcare system with medical accidents without any liabilities to surgeons/physicians

[@MasterofPlay7]

​@N S Surgeons/physicians are accountable and can go to jail under private healthcare, which one do you prefer? lmao

[@andyme3541]

@@MasterofPlay7 Actually you don't get the best healthcare, it costs more in the Us for worse service. Which makes sense, since insurance companies make a loss everytime they pay out they have a vested interest not to pay out, and since legally they must pursue profit, they also have a legal obligation to exploit any loop hole. Which means Americans end up paying for the red tape more than the actual service. Added is a thing called economy of scale when a whole nation is paying, through tax it needs pay less than an individual on a insurance scheme. I could go on but to sum up, America's healthcare system is both horrid, and over expensive.

[@marcel844]

American Health Care Plan: 1. Don't get sick

[@chocolatedonut6312]

Marcel Wolke and don’t have babies

[@teaisfantastic7136]

@@chocolatedonut6312 buy condoms & stay happy 😂

[@unido5411]

2: Don't be poor

[@Anna_ep]

It's impossible. Your food alone is laden with so many chemicals and too processed. That's why other countries do not want American foods in their country. It's making their citizens sick.

[@SankoshSaha_01]

Valid plan

[@mariairfan7736]

"so if you're poor, you're dead" American Healthcare summarized.

[@DoctorArzt]

Maria Irfan not just their healthcare lmao

[@1lori_b]

That's why we Americans get bitter when our government wants to give illegal immigrants health insurance and yet we suffer and go without meds.

[@rivasimri]

@@1lori_b Immigrants don't get medical insurance though - part of the problem in the US is seeing healthcare as a profit. But we can sure as heck spend on war though.

[@yukihirasoma8167]

Väinö Tapio you do

[@aamgdp]

@Donald Thorpe Well you could mistaken to think the overblown prices fund the research, but it just mostly goes to the pockets of people in charge of those companies, and politicians to not change the system. There is top medical research in almost every developed country.

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

As an American… I agree. It’s horrifically expensive. There are people who go to other countries for surgeries it’s so bad.

[@ArariaKAgelessTraveller]

I once read someone actually bought a ticket to Spain(or was it portugal?), get treatment, having vacation and all, and it still cost less than having same treatment in his own US state

[@bobababy6089]

WHY ARE THEY CHARGING YALL TO HOLD YOUR DAMN BABY??? I DONT UNDERSTAND THAT PART

[@ALoser-ThisIsTotallyUnique]

@@bobababy6089 WE DONT EITHER

[@Nirioonossian]

@@bobababy6089 Because you aren't subscribed to the premium baby battle pass, of course.

[@toxihex876]

The question is, why does anyone stand for it? There's proof it doesn't have to be that way, and it can be literally hundreds of times better, yet nobody even thinks to see how these healthcare systems function. Not only that, but they make excuses for their own system and argue against those who say this isn't normal.

[@alyssabates967]

As someone from the US, I have seen many people die, because they are afraid of the huge price tag that may come with going to the doctor, so they often wait until whatever illness they have has progressed to the point it may cause permanent damage or not be able to be fixed, resulting in death. It’s a pathetic disgrace, and I fear its going to take the nation falling to its knees to change anything. Which is sad, because I love many things about my home, but we deserve better than this. It’s pathetic and an embarrassment, and it’s literally killing people.

[@SarahSkinnyJeans]

Yes

[@quietcontraire]

Not just falling on its knees, it needs one heck of a damn wake-up call by crumbling the very foundation of its corrupt economy

[@lynxfresh5214]

Some folks need to take their own words to heart when they say "facts > feelings". The USA has more morbidly obese people than the entire population of Australia, the average USA citizen will live three years less than they British counterparts and the USA has a massive jail population with over 1.5 million inmates (most of which have been diagnosed as mentally ill). The current USA health-care system is objectively unsustainable as stated by healthcare professionals from across the world (the reports are all over the internet and news) yet apparently a nation that values freedom above all else is controlled by a certain percentage of folks that value profit and keeping the status quo above human life (I'll never forget those folks at the rallies that cheered at the prospect of their fellow hardworking Americans being left for dead on the transplant list and being refused help all because they were poor).

[@kai0tfoool]

​@@lynxfresh5214china has the largest amount of obese people, not America

[@mychaeldark1007]

Live in America and I call bullshit. I have affordable healthcare and have NEVER had to pay a dime for any medical services or fee's. I've had to have all my teeth removed and replaced with dentures $0. Hospitalized twice during Covid, from the Vaccine not catching the disease $0. My eyeglasses for having 20/1000 vision $0. If people are dying from ignorance and incompetance than I say good riddance. Clears out the mentally defective from the gene pool.

[@seymourskinner3573]

Confused civilians: "Where does all the American money go then?" U.S. Army : 🤫

[@themoonsanus7213]

Seymour Skinner talk to my ten grand toilet spot and my 8 grand “best dad ever” mug

[@jonahpark4595]

Seymour Skinner most of our budget is spent on entitlements not the military

[@dylancosto]

Jonah Park don’t think so, as on 2018 it was 54% of federal discretionary budget for the military, nearly 600 billion$, half of the entire budget to increase the size of the already extremely large military, America is ridiculous.

[@itstimeforafuckingcrusade]

@@dylancosto yep, the U.S. military funding is larger than all other countries military funding combined.

[@dylancosto]

It's time for a fucking crusade. And it’s getting bigger every year, despite the most peaceful time in recorded human history, people already don’t respect American and it’s people, making the army larger won’t solve anything.

[@cgme7076]

“If you’re poor you’re dead.” Yes.

[@keephuzzlin]

@Merika Ramocan Right.. Medicaid.. Thats why there are tens of millions of Americans who arent insured, and tens of millions more who are underinsured.. And ontop of that, 1 out of 10 Americans cannot handle a 400 dollar emergency and about 40% would have difficulty doing so. He wasnt being misleading at all.

[@danielintq]

@@keephuzzlin Now I understand why there are so many anti-vaxxers. It's just they can't afford vaccines.

[@grecco4037]

@@danielintq that's actually sad. plus the fact that they create these narratives in their own bubble to justify and make themselves feel good that they are anti-vaxxers

[@unownunown1530]

Daniel Lin the thing with the vaccines is afaik things like flu vaccines are the one thing you actually do get for free in the US lol

[@fcuagency2163]

@Merika Ramocan sure, like 100% of Americans can get that

[@anuzis]

Had our first born in the US last year... $33,000. After insurance, about $6,000... edit: to the UK dude who said his child birth cost 8 pounds for parking, it reminded me we also paid about $70 for parking (overnight for early morning birth)

[@mestupkid211986]

My son cost us $10k but at least we didnt have to pay for parking.

[@vintage1950]

Damnnnnnn, my brother and his wife just had a little girl last week. They got a refund on parking as she was there for 3 days.

[@kaiserxion]

Compare both individual and sales tax rates between locales, look into better insurances and realize that the USA is basically subsidizing MANY countries humanitarian, disaster and protection aide (whether it's effective is another topic). I pay 10% individual tax and 9% except on food stuff which is 0%. We are far better off.

[@amperesclaw9203]

High deductible rates are cheap and you can reimburse yourself during retirement for that expense from HSA and employer gives us $1250 a year towards that. If you are an engineer/working couple $6000 for such a life event is chump change and only have so many kids.

[@KT28818]

My firstborn’s hospital bills was a total of $60,000. She and I had to be transferred to another hospital, the one I gave birth in didn’t have a NICU. Then she stayed in the NICU for about five days.

[@Sand.eater87]

“You have to pay for that?” Yes, we have to pay for bandaids in the hospital

[@sailor5853]

Imagine paying for individual toothpicks in a restaurant

[@cs4155]

LMAO that's so sad

[@legolord4483]

@@sailor5853paying for the mint in the basket when you leave

[@MPresheva]

40 bucks to hold your own baby after birth? USA helthcare is sick.

[@GB_B]

Mustafa Preşeva yeah thats so stupid

[@lilly3424]

it’s ridiculous

[@8is]

Yeah, cross-subsidization and suing of doctors aren't great.

[@fadhly5192]

Cause their tax go to military and war instead of healthcare and education

[@8is]

@@fadhly5192 What's sick isn't who pays it, it's that the price is so high. It's a matter of choice if you want to pay for yourself or pay taxes. They chose to pay it themself but they still pay taxes for medicare where they force the hospitals and ambulance to take under market value prices. That's why there is no competition and the suing of doctors increase the prices even more because if they make a mistake they are charged with millions of dollars so they have to have expensive insurance so they need to increase the prices.

[@angelina.gracee]

It shouldn’t be considered a privilege to try and live.

[@osh_hoq6217]

Omg exactly the world is crazy!

[@Lookatmeshine]

@Loki Leaves because humans have been taking care of sick and disabled since Neanderthals... because it's literally that basic.

[@claireosborne692]

Angelina Stonebraker Amen 🙏🏻 x x

[@claireosborne692]

Loki Leaves because it’s called looking after one another.. we are all humans we all live in one planet we should all look after one another quite simple really ❤️ x x

[@pocketchange3543]

@@claireosborne692 sorry if you're a lazy F that doesn't work so you can get free benefits, which I've known quite a few over the years, the hell with you! If you're out there busting your ass and doing everything in your power to not take handouts, not only will you have my respect but then and only then do you deserve my help.

[@zenkalt]

Guys, I think I got it! I've been pondering and the $40 charge for letting the mother hold her baby is probably for the strain the doctor/nurse goes through when handing over and taking back the baby.

[@rkprasad64]

It could be actually true, you know..

[@_JustSyd_]

Strain they go though💀

[@savannahrae9030]

Lowkey actually, i had my son back in June 2022 and asked the nurse after and she said it was because they have to bring in an extra nurse to suprvise you because you are highly medicated and might accidentally drop/smother/hurt your baby in some way Edit* i had a c-section so i don't know if they do that for natural birth

[@shoganflamemasta3975]

​​@@savannahrae9030That's bullshit, it just a way of preying on new mothers who will almost always want to hold their own babies for a bit of extra cash. America is mental, and paying to hold your child is so dehumanizing and insane, that at first I thought these brits where joking, until I found your comment. Truly, be careful out there.

[@sailor5853]

​@@savannahrae9030Imagine going through years and years of Nurse training just to do supervision. USA don't understand they can personnel inside the hospital to do menial tasks without went to damn medical school. If I cut my finger here and got to the hospital for them do put in two stitches do you think they will spare a damn nurse to do it? No. That's the equivalent of getting an electric engineer to change a lightbulb.

[@John_Merritt]

My wife had both our sons in private hospitals here in Australia, our private cover for both my wife and I was $2500 AUD per year for full cover and the excess for each birth was $200 and this gave her a private room each time, meals each day and I think I did pay for parking but that’s fine, significantly cheaper than the US. Problem with the US health care system is the word Care isn’t included, its a business not a care system

[@fatherson5907]

You actually believe this silly propaganda. You’re incredibly gullible. 🤣🤣🤣

[@brozius]

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US

[@Who-cu9eu]

How much would it cost to have a pack of anti biotic for a water infection? I get them quite a lot. In the U.K. it costs 15 dollars a pack

[@alletsnow]

Water borne infection? Antibiotics vary in price in Australia. $8-25 generally.

[@phenethylamine91]

American: *breathes* US big corporations: that'll be $9.99

[@felix0-014]

They have already discussed air taxes...

[@DreamsRemorse]

9.99$ if you have really good insurance. Otherwise it's like a few hundred dollars. No way anything you need to live is that cheap. People want to live...so what they need to live is higher priced.

[@swirlandtwirl5417]

Fxck

[@DenZhead]

@@mondoshredder5783 weeeell... Oxygen tanks cost $50 a unit in the US.

[@brittanys505]

Oxygen tanks though!

[@velvetmiu]

Now I understand why millennials aren’t having kids. 😳

[@vglove8566]

And here I thought it was from abortions

[@kattykleo8579]

European millennials aren't either. Very low birth rates all throughout Europe.

[@brianisme6498]

mar that’s not the main. The main reason is because people nowadays are more concerned with getting a good education then raising a family, the consequence of this is that by the time woman finish their education they’re at the age where it’s difficult to have children

[@SkycometFallen]

Yup.

[@jamesmiller2521]

@@kattykleo8579 in poor countries like Bulgaria. It's 2 or almost 2 kids per woman in Norway and other Nordic countries.

[@Elilucksout]

Sad thing about this is when they said the low prices immediately I thought, “Damn I wish.” But I’m glad he brought up the fact you have to PAY to have skin on skin contact with your baby after you give birth.

[@lucaspham5238]

"10 grand for a baby" this still got me 😂

[@baghira2761]

10 grand, not including 9 months of pregnancy 😂

[@manojpatro6288]

@@baghira2761 🤣

[@user-tq2qh8zl9q]

Over $200 for an inhaler- I- Isn't that just paying to be breathe-

[@chaotic_jinks121]

Asthmatic person: * breaths* American healthcare system: *racks shotgun* "that'll be 200 USD bitch"

[@calmchaos.]

That's maaaad 😱 In Morocco its 4 dollars

[@sierramelling2374]

Even with my insurance it is still like 80-90$ for my inhalers and I have chronic severe asthma so I'm getting like one a month

[@ryanrigley2558]

I have asthma that flares up with allergies, those allergies without the asthma already obstruct my breathing, so its like a double whammy. The Fun part? I'm allergic to grass. And trees. Basically, Im not supposed to be alive right now.

[@sillowillo]

@@calmchaos. I live in America and are you fucking serious? 4 FREAKING DOLLARS AND WE ARE OVER HERE PAYING 200 TO BREATHE

[@yashchandravanshi]

In USA owning a gun is easier than paying your hospital bill.

[@MsZebra-ke8yf]

Definitely is.

[@elizabethhoover4672]

Sadly, so true :(

[@thecreativemillenial]

Because muh gunz

[@godless-clump-of-cells]

As an American, thank you. It's ridiculous.

[@taylorcleblanc]

2 completely unrelated things. Wouldnt expect Brits to understand anything about that.

[@xragdoll5662]

Spent years in America and my epilepsy medication was $900 alone with an ambulance costing $900-1,000 I think. It’s insane

[@tmgha6876]

My husband joined the military when he was 17 and has completely free healthcare. He was SHOCKED to see how much I have to pay with regular insurance.

[@Ryan-wx1bi]

The VA is aweful. I have access to that and still choose to pay for the normal healthcare system instead. I know guys who had to wait 2 years for important surgeries.

[@MeganGarzaWellness]

The VA is garbage. My husband has gotten lied to about having a lesion on his liver, given contrast for a CT scan (he's had kidney cancer... Cancer survivor + radiation drink = bad time) , abnormal blood work, and just the general run around. Nobody ever answers the phone so getting an appointment is impossible. We've given up on the VA for him and just pay out of pocket for functional doctors (much better than regular MDs).

[@AkaiAzul]

Since when did America go from “Land of the free” to “Land of the fee”?

[@Stanzafly]

It's funnier when you consider that the literal basis for our government was the idea of "no taxation without representation," i.e. the British Empire charging the colonies for things they didn't deserve to be charged for. I guess nothing lasts forever.

[@coolrocknroll]

America was stolen from the Natives, who were subjected to unspeakably cruel deaths. The thing that is called America bears no resemblance to the original spirit of the place. It was taken with violence, is ruled with violence and contempt for its' people. Fuck America.

[@elizabethnilsson1815]

the Germans and the French do not provenance the 'r'

[@dexterjettster8875]

@@Stanzafly Supporting free healthcare goes against the whole "no taxation" thing.

[@guillermojimenez2152]

Since the English Landed

[@janelc1843]

world's hospital : you're a patient America's hospital : you're a customer

[@nivedprabhu5057]

And the American model is gaining more popularity

[@abbasraza56]

Because of capitalism spreading. The UK health care system is better than America's

[@santhoshraj5267]

In India ; you're a product

[@joaospegiorin7840]

America is a continent, not a country

[@assootoshmotah2350]

@@nivedprabhu5057 cuz they only look at the stonks

[@adverteasing]

I'm on a team (in a company) that helps design medical products. One of the products, which is basically plastic tubes that cost 50-75 cents to manufacture, is sold to hospitals for $200-$300 depending on location. The tubes can save lives, however, always follow the money when you get that healthcare bill... Side Note: A lot of medical product manufacturers have needed a recall in their past history, but avoid or don't do them, even after FDA recommendations/shutdowns. Example: Let's say 7 people in the US die because of a faulty chemo port. A company will do a cost analysis of every factor-lawsuit over time, loss of life, and money, etc. You get the point: If profits come out ahead, they never do recalls. Most have the resources to bury with motions or paperwork, taking years for court productive momentum-same with copyright lawsuits and the such. I've heard our teams of in-house lawyers call it the, "drain and stain," method.

[@kaasmeester5903]

I heard similar stories, like hospitals repackaging a box of bog-standard throat lozenges ($5 for a whole bag), giving them individually to patients who need them, and charging them $50 for it. Not for the bag, but for the one lozenge. Problem in the US is one that (to a lesser degree) we in the Netherlands are suffering from as well: health care providers and insurers have a vested interest in making things expensive. So prices go up every year. You either need REAL competition between insurers (and that means free and informed choice, which is mostly lacking), or make it a national insurance. Because competition between health care providers and hospitals was actually working pretty well here when it started, and when the insurers hadn't consolidated their newfound power yet. Private care was WAY cheaper and better than the state hospitals, and available to all with no waiting lists.

[@madfarmdays9567]

I live in Brazil, here they have SUS (NHS), in some states is better than others, my husband had skin cancer, had a consultation, exams, and surgery done in 30 days and stayed in a hospital room overnight by himself, private bathroom and netflix. How much does it cost? Zero dólares, zero reais. We couldn't believe and the doctor and nurses were lovely.

[@kolejigor]

American healthcare is like EA.

[@Thomas-jv2yv]

lmao that's shockingly accurate

[@theminecrafterreturns7251]

[unlock my reply for 9.99] >Yes >No

[@NEIL_F]

*spends $9,99 *

[@smoogie865]

Unlock to hold your baby 40 $ - unlock Unlock to keep your baby 10000 $ - unlock

[@theminecrafterreturns7251]

@@NEIL_F [Spend $120 to to pay 9.99] >Yes >No but still pay

[@thethinkingstone9248]

The rest of the world is literally laughing at us.

[@underedenxx]

Why? we give 50% of our pay check every week in Canada for healthcare that becomes less free every year, because I've never needed healthcare until now, I have essentially paid about a million dollars to have 1 baby and they wont even provide me with a popsicle I have to bring my own 🤷‍♀️

[@JohnDoe-uq9ni]

and ever country that laughs needs to pay for there own military instead of relaying on america

[@dontbother3346]

was this meant to be a pun like us as in us and us as in united States haha

[@rinkiakepapa5625]

@@JohnDoe-uq9ni only Switzerland does!! Btw thanks for weakening NATO , if Stalin would have been alive today, he would have celebrated the weakening by diving into a pool of Vodka

[@alexnadon6999]

@@underedenxx what the fuck are you going on about. They still give free popsicles. I got one a couple years ago when I had surgery. And you don't even pay 50 per cent

[@truejustice2075]

A lot of these medications were develop by taxpayers money and still Americans end up pay a lot. Now I don't know if the pharmaceutical companies get all the money or the U.S. gets a cut out of it, but regardless taxpayers should be paying less.

[@KolMan2000]

“Is there a price for that?” Is the most accurate response I can imagine

[@BabylonGames798]

Charging someone to hold their own child is called kidnapping

[@LadyLyme]

TheBeast798 not in America

[@limibosi1785]

@@LadyLyme well yes it is what it is. Only that there its legal because of the system.

[@kflowers8276]

I thought it was called ransom. But when I think about it, the money is a ransome and (you're right) the act is kidnapping. 😄

[@rehanmemon3969]

ok, ok. wait. He said holding your baby delivered by C-section. meaning, post surgery. Isn't the mother sedated for that? I don't... can someone explain this to me, please.

[@limibosi1785]

@@rehanmemon3969 she will at some point be fully capable of holding the baby. They are talking when that moments come.

[@SudaneseChamp]

"If your poor... your dead" What that girl said basically America in whole.

[@plantune2003]

I love who this comment if from 💕 You know it the most lol

[@SudaneseChamp]

@@plantune2003 😂😂😂

[@angelina8570]

John Peric lmao, it’s about the people there. Are you dumb?

[@SudaneseChamp]

@@johnperic6860 it doesn't matter when the top 1% hoard all of that money lol

[@angelina8570]

John Peric i never said you’re poor. But you’re too poor to pay $3000 for an ambulance. Or $30K for an operation

[@earthearth3189]

They took 12k(USD) for stomach pain(for my father)...and the catch here is that the stomach pain wasn't cured and later on he traveled to India as a medical tourist and got all his health taken care of under 50k rupees, which is less than 1000 USD...12k went down the drain...

[@fatherson5907]

Why didn’t he have insurance?

[@brozius]

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US

[@CringeSeekers]

​@@fatherson5907 why pay for insurance when you have Papa John's Supreme pizza xl for only 8.99?

[@NatashaDamarisDosAnjos]

$40 for skin on skin contact is the most absurd thing I have ever heard in my life😮

[@muir8009]

Actually sounds like a fantastic deal.... OH my goodness, sorry. I must've be thinking of a different type of skin on skin contact... ;)

[@GetRotated]

“So if you’re poor you’re dead” Yes, but actually yes

[@nielssorensen9856]

@basant vimal sharma so you're a fatalist

[@rotaruciprian4355]

Yes

[@chunkatronic]

@basant vimal sharma I will be happy to pay for your time machine ticket back to the dark ages so you can live out your ideal

[@dundee248]

basant vimal sharma Except if you live in a developed country where healthcare is a thing. Oh well...

[@aquaarmour4924]

@basant vimal sharma shut up indian

[@ungodlytemptations]

"America is a third world country with a Gucci belt"

[@koalaeucalyptus]

I'd agree, except I actually am from a third world country, and I have access to free healthcare from the government. Obviously not as great as what you can find in Europe, but still...

[@thomadbearr4631]

well technically we're a first world country but I get what you mean.

[@pietroghedini98]

A gucci belt and a very big knife

[@Tiernan422]

Actually I do believe America is aligned with itself so it is a first world country

[@KokoroKatsura]

A N I M E N I M E

[@Chipper6811]

When I had my hysterectomy back in 2016 (laparoscopic), I received the bill from the hospital because they filed with the wrong insurance company. It came out to $77,000, i was gobsmacked. When I contacted the hospital, they refiled with the correct company, I never received another bill. Healthcare prices are a nightmare, even with insurance, which is not an affordable option for many sadly.

[@BulDurham]

Every employer in the US over a hundred employees has to provide medical insurance by law

[@HipBeeWitch]

And the shocking thing is, is that people actually WANT to move here (the US); Deluded! If I had the money, I'd have moved a LONG time ago!

[@fatherson5907]

You’re a privileged and entitled westerner with an easy life that you still manage to fail miserably at, so you desperately seek out imaginary victimhood to dodge responsibility for your failures. Typing away on your $800 phone about how bad you have it 🤣🤣🤣 Why do you need money to leave? Plenty of people move to the US with no money at all. Why are you pretending you’re a victim (once again) and making up imaginary obstacles? You’re lazy.

[@RasnakJS]

​@fatherson5907 you're a clown.

[@shadowsinmymind9]

Exactly

[@fatherson5907]

@@shadowsinmymind9 you’re entitled and delusional

[@yourmomsfavourite5677]

In America some people are begging people to not call the ambulance after an accident because they're poor.... Here in Germany it's a crime to not call the ambulance if someone is really injured!

[@SienneB]

Same in the Caribbean... didn't realise how lucky we are till I saw this video 😥

[@malathomas6141]

Where in the Caribbean do u live I’m from Trinidad and Tobago

[@pauharrison]

Exactly, in Uruguay and Argentina is the same way, cant believe how dumb and ignorant most yanks are (sorry for the good ones, I know there are a lot)

[@liamcoulter9627]

Oh yeah, you don’t call the ambulance unless it’s life or death or something that needs immediate care. Coming from a solid middle class family.

[@macoffeeprettypie]

Really poor people have health insurance called medicaid (which is what I'm on) which would cover emergencies, including ambulance. The problem is when you have enough money not to qualify for medicaid but not enough to pay your medical bills

[@teamo8394]

Even with India being the so called "third world country", ambulance service is free of cost my god america wtf

[@Ugnutz]

I've always found it wierd how the term Third World Country has evolved it was originally use to describe countries that were not apart of NATO and the USSR as all of the NATO aligned countries were the First world and the Soviet Block was the Second world and everyone else was the Third world.

[@dodododododododo8216]

"so called"third world country"" Third world= what @ugnutz explained above. India IS a third world country.

[@dr.k1012]

Really dude.. I mean we have universal health coverage, medications are almost free at government hospitals and so are treatments, 10₹ for a prescription paper that you can use multiple times.. we have ASHA and Anganwadi for free meals to children mothers and girls.. subsidies on food for poor.. in my state we have free operations and treatment for everyone even in private hospitals, upto thousands and thousands.. its genuinely very good for a country such as ours..

[@zaidkhan-se9rt]

I live in Pakistan and even we don't have to pay for an ambulance and have lots of free hospitals :)

[@glpinho]

Yea, same with Brazil

[@Dienow3xw]

I would LOVE to denounce american citizenship and live in the UK

[@fatherson5907]

So why don’t you? Then once you move there, you’ll see what a complete sewer it is. You play video games. That is absolutely pathetic. No wonder you fall for ridiculous propaganda. Video games 🤣🤣🤣🤣.

[@user-do3qz7kt2m]

Omg glad to be Australian with basically free medical and highly subsidised medicine a inhaler costs about $7,having 2 kids free and one of my kids was premature his medical bill was zero 😊

[@simplyeason]

i love “shut the fridge” girl

[@nickda1]

me to lol lovely lady

[@stantxtstanloona4702]

xeasonx ske made me laugh with her reaction and words

[@moondaymood.]

i love "10 grand for a baby" girl

[@stantxtstanloona4702]

Moonday Mood me to she was funny

[@binzahid161]

Does anybody know her name?

[@BoSinnfan54]

I like how America has no problem starting a huge and expensive war that created a refugee crisis and ruined the lives of millions but when it comes to fixing IT'S OWN HEALTHCARE, that's a big no no.

[@MsHeartIsArt]

Yeah cuz America is a business so they’re goal is to cut costs

[@senatesheev]

As an American, I really really really want to disagree but I just can't

[@hnys7976]

The dumb thing is that America could clearly afford free healthcare. It has one of the dumbest healthcare systems in the world, they make the medicine and have to pay more for it than any other country. The money spent on the healthcare mainly goes on paperwork and rich billionaires stealing the money...

[@hiddenknowledge2012]

Because anything that goes against the US establishment is commie. Why do you like free healthcare you dirty commie, how dare you try and implement your communist regime in my country! This is America and we wont stand for socialism, what's next? Stalin?

[@eldakka2163]

@@iminyourwalls8309 just lower the tax rate of poor people and higher it of rich people. Like in Finland, you can get $2 000 000 fine just for driving too fast of you're enough rich (already happened)

[@ryntintynvin]

Guess the cost: I went in for a quick swab to test if my amniotic fluid was leaking. They also monitored my and baby’s heart rate while waiting for the test results. This was technically an emergency visit. I was there for about 2 hours total. $4,200

[@shadowsinmymind9]

Omg!

[@sleuthjill7653]

Texas here - my husband had a STEMI heart attack in 2014. Ambulance $1500. HOSPITAL ICU BED ONLY - $640 000. Specialists, meds, all additional services charged over and above. Have lived in the UK and truly appreciate the NHS. Fight to retain UK. DON’T fall for the privatization, you will pay the price and face with extortion by private ownership.

[@fatherson5907]

Why didn’t he have insurance? The NHS is third world garbage. Stop trying to push that failed junk on us.

[@brozius]

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

[@MaxPayne-fi1mz]

How much does health insurance cover??

[@sleuthjill7653]

@@MaxPayne-fi1mz We were personally out of pocket for at least $40,000.00 not covered by insurance. I won't tell the many, many hours (days / weeks) I spent trying to get our costs down to what we ended up paying. .

[@MaxPayne-fi1mz]

@@sleuthjill7653Do you think if you had better health insurance you could have had lower costs??

[@yawoelevn]

She said “whY?” That’s how we all feel here in America .

[@Creepermoss]

The "why" is simple. The government didn't want to spend tax dollars on you, so they allowed the healthcare industry to be privatized. It's now a for-profit system, of course the consumer gets fucked for money, they have a hard monopoly.

[@Tshikonelo]

Yet you go to the polls and vote for the very same people who are screwing you.

[@Shetasen]

A question we ask everytime we're sick.

[@locarno24]

@adam loring true. But there is a big difference - US prices are inflated not so much because of that but because (a) there is no 'customer' with collective bargaining power anything like NICE (The NHS drugs buyer), (b) it's run for profit and (c) the companies lobby for extended patents beyond the base value. The problem with health care - and the original argument behind the 'free at point of use' model is that if you need it you cannot say no: you are essentially held hostage. By having everyone, sick or well contribute a little, no one gets screwed. US hospital procedures aren't inherently less cost-efficient, but the true cost is largely hidden - compare (if you're a pet owner) the cost of a hospital visit to a similar procedure at a UK vet and you'll see how well the model works, even crippled by underfunding as it is....

[@vincents3799]

Why? Ur goverment let it be, sick move

[@moler646445]

America isn't a real country, its just a business

[@berrybloom2000]

America is a corporation WASTELAND.

[@jamesvandao-vergona3257]

Lol we definitely are a real country...

[@Dimitris1917]

Yeah, welcome to capitalism.

[@sueelle5540]

thats true...

[@mastersinr]

Its a brand posing as a country

[@mikebikekite1]

I was talking to an American who was still working quite late in life. I asked why and he told me he was diabetic and could only afford the medicine (to survive) if he worked. The weird thing is they regard the US as a 1st world country but, in reality, it's only if you can afford it.

[@fatherson5907]

All Americans over 65 get full medical coverage. You literally make up silly lies to tell strangers online.

[@brozius]

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

[@Robotic_pilot]

Every human deserves Food, Water, Shelter and Healthcare. If you make these things expensive and pay people little for it, it's going to cause flack.

[@SYN4456]

"It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" -George Carlin, philosopher

[@JamesKeithProduction]

That man spoke nothing but the truth. I’m glad that he’s still appreciated :)

[@jamestheotherone742]

Carlin was a comedian not a philosopher. Although the current generation can't tell the difference since it takes its political advice from late night talk show hosts.

[@tigertiger1699]

Rip George 🌹

[@SYN4456]

@@jamestheotherone742 I know he was a comedian. And unlike him, it's obvious that you can't take a joke. Bernard Shaw once said, "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh. Otherwise they will kill you".

[@thebandofbastards4934]

@@jamestheotherone742 You don't need to be a philosopher to see the bullshit going around in society.

[@richardmeunster8743]

Jesus, for 10k you can just buy a baby, skip the pregnancy.

[@doomdude69]

Good point. Either way, Americans hate their baby and cant wait to ship em out when they turn 18.

[@Walkercolt1]

Almost all obstetricians in America charge you by a percentage of your yearly income about 1/3, with a bottom dollar price of about $6000 for a simple delivery of a healthy baby from a very low-risk mother. In a state with "universal health care" like Massachusetts, double that.

[@summerchanler2024]

Haha make sense. Just skip the line

[@bishopx5ur077]

Right?

[@metacarpitan]

Or just have it at home for free xD

[@DGT73]

Save the NHS at all costs!!

[@lukeford5970]

Thats why you hear so many of us Americans dropping dead of heart attacks and strokes because even if you feel bad you can't afford the bill with 1300 a month for a studio. Then food gas lights and water so yes if your poor your dead

[@twigb6863]

Honestly we might be better off that way at this point 😂

[@RetirededKat]

"So if you're poor you're dead" Close, you're actually poor because you're not dead.

[@ashak.v9027]

True

[@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234]

Lmao no, They still save you, But you're in debt

[@cristian-bull]

@@subifyouhatetiktokandreddit234 not if you neglect for years prevention care you can't afford, until something comes out and its too late. Nobody would just pile debt up undefinetly. it's unrealistic, and there is more to healthcare than medical emergencies.

[@blubbleebubbllleess4939]

*Y E T*

[@bighands69]

No American dies due to poverty. America has a public health insurance system that poor people can use. The ignorance in the comments is astonishing.

[@benny2446]

“So if you’re poor you’re dead?” Basically

[@fatherson5907]

Nope, if you’re poor you get covered by Medicaid. You’re ignorant and uneducated.

[@jellyfesh7517]

@@fatherson5907 joke

[@fatherson5907]

@@jellyfesh7517 lie

[@jellyfesh7517]

@@fatherson5907 m edicaid is not free you’re uneduacated

[@jellyfesh7517]

@@fatherson5907 America is a joke

[@hamfistsman6267]

Cost me 80k when my twins were born and they were healthy. Delivered naturally. No complications.

[@fatherson5907]

Why didn’t you have insurance? Sounds like extremely negligent parenting. Shame on you.

[@brozius]

Don't bother, Fatherson is a troll.

[@GgrimrodD]

My grandma got her knee replaced recently, she told me that her insurance covered it but the total was $74,000. I think it would've been funnier if they went into more specific operations like that, cause those prices get insanely huge

[@fatherson5907]

That’s a lie. She would have Medicare cover the cost. Stop lying.

[@devinnix9071]

​@@fatherson5907WAAAAAHH

[@fatherson5907]

@@devinnix9071go play your video games, little boy 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Video games 🤣🤣🤣🤣. What are you, 10 years old?

[@GgrimrodD]

@@fatherson5907 I half expected a smartass to come along and attempt to correct me, did you gloss over the "her insurance covered it" part? Also, I wouldn't be shocked if she was flat out wrong, she has a screw or two loose.

[@fatherson5907]

@@GgrimrodD so you lied. Got it. The total wasn’t $74k. Stop lying to try to be a victim. It’s pathetic.

[@Tipko]

Problem isn't the brits who are surprised. The true problem is the Americans aren't

[@aintunnis9201]

@GR JM use punctuation ffs. And I 100% prefer health care that is paid by a solidary tax system then pay 100.000+ dollar because I randomly get cancer or break some bone. F*ck the health system of the USA (and sadly a lot of other countries like Chile, Argentina..)

[@dragonsember]

I live in the states. My family was in dire straits after 2008, seeing as they were both in real-estate. I got salmonella as a kid and my parents tried to wait it out and treat it at home bc we couldn't afford medical treatment. It got worse, I got brought to the hospital, we lost our home. I'd rather our medical system be akin to a public school and private school situation where we have access to both options (an affordable tax funded option and a more costly higher standard private medical facility) than have a child with the system we currently have. A lot of Americans will tell you "if you have an issue with the way things are currently run, you can just leave and move to a 'better' country." Imo it's cowardly. We have the right to vote for a reason. If you have a problem with your country, you don't leave, you make an effort to fix the problem.

[@Tipko]

@@Balletified wow! What an insensitive comment. The guy's parents lost their house because of the system and you mock him? What a douche you are

[@Astari0n_BG3]

yeah

[@hi-nw7qy]

Americans aren't surprised because they're just used to it.

[@late8641]

"So if you're poor you're dead" The US healthcare in a nutshell.

[@fatherson5907]

Nope, if you’re poor you get Medicaid. But why bother learning the facts, right?

[@late8641]

@@fatherson5907 Just piss of from the comment section already, will you? I've read your other comments and they're completely ludicrous.

[@brozius]

Medicaid??? Yea it's so great that if you make use of it then many practitioners won't even see you. In order for Medicaid to cover your medical care, a doctor or another provider who participates in Medicaid must provide the medical services you use. But Medicaid doesn’t reimburse doctors and other health care providers at the same rates as private insurance, so many practitioners do not see patients who have Medicaid as their only coverage. If you’re enrolled in Medicaid, make sure to check in advance with any health care provider about whether they accept Medicaid patients. www.caring.com/caregivers/medicaid/

[@brozius]

@@fatherson5907 Lol and another person on here already knows that you are just a despicable troll. GOOD JOB 😂😂😂

[@macmen007]

Nearly Half the workers in the U.S. make wages that are considered to be in the poverty range. Poor people use home remedies and other natural medicines to survive. Many learned how to treat themselves during slavery, Jim Crow segregation (which banned P.O.C. from health facilities). Migrant workers also developed techniques to provide in-house medical treatment. More than half of all Americans have no health care, so these people have learned to use survival techniques passed down thru centuries of suffrage. It's an acceptable way of life in America. The medical System is not designed for low income people, it designed with high cost for a reason.

[@dejihuam]

one time I had to be transferred from one hospital to the other. I wasn’t in anything close to critical condition. My parents could have driven me just fine but the hospital called an ambulance FOR US. If my dad didn’t find out we would have ended up paying that $2,500 fine for an ambulance ride that we didn’t even want 🙃

[@annistar9693]

You can refuse to get in

[@Jess4mab]

I just got a tooth crown today in Ohio(one of the cheaper states). I have dental insurance and I paid $800 out of pocket, cash. That was the only painful part of the procedure😂

[@huhhwuhh]

“so if you’re poor you’re dead” essentially, yeah

[@meowmixmeowmix]

Meh. I have to work at clinics and I drug test patients due to our state law and almost everyone has medicaid so they pay next to nothing. And they are all taking multiple Rx oxycodone, morphine, etc. Half of them test positive for meth and a very small percentage test positive for heroin. They make less than 20k a year but get like 10k worth of medications a year for a small co pay and still have more than enough money to pay to live eat and get cracked out.

[@cmecoo3109]

@@meowmixmeowmix it's almost as there's a link between poverty and substance abuse

[@billmcgill3739]

@@cmecoo3109 If your comment was sarcastic, I applaud you! Gee, ya' think?! Well done! There are way too many naive world views on line and sometimes they need to be skewered. In the event, this was not sarcastic, then my congratulations to you for discovering a major truth in human behavior.

[@pwk22]

1) I suggest you stop being poor, then. 2) Those must be zombies walking around the inner city and rural America, but they sure seem alive.

[@adolfoguerra7257]

You know this isn't true. The poor still go to hospitals and they don't pay their bills.

[@PumpkinMozie]

“So basically if you’re poor you’re dead.” Yeah pretty much.

[@theplotarmoredtitan5781]

Now I can understand why Malaysia is crowned as No. 1 Healthcare in the world. I don't know this year though if we are still rank No. 1 coz covid is every corner of the world.

[@kathykaura7219]

That's why I left the country.

[@wlonsdale1]

There isn't a hospital in America that won't provide care to anyone. Just ask those who come over here from your country. We have the best

[@fatherof4kids]

Ever heard of medicaid?

[@kathykaura7219]

@@wlonsdale1 WRONG. I was rear ended by a drunk driver, but I didn't need an ambulance. The officer told me to go get checked out at the nearest hospital. I went into the nearest emergency room with blood streaming down my face. They denied me because I had no insurance.

[@Serasia]

Yeah…I know a lot of people in the US think if it’s expensive healthcare it’s good…but it’s not. Just seeing people alarmed about the costs helps though…a lot of people know it’s ridiculous and know we’re backwards over here.

[@DibTheMothman]

We Americans should just go on strike and stop paying medical insurance and Drive to Mexico or Canada whenever we're sick so that the Insurance companies go out of business.

[@csicsi13]

The girl just trying her best not to swear: "Shut the fridge" "Carried in my ... womb" "They're fudged" 😂

[@alexhartley9963]

csicsak.daniel Then blurred out “FUCK TRUMP”

[@YurimoHikashi]

@@alexhartley9963 wasn't blurred out

[@Thehouseoffail]

What on Earth do you think she was going to say instead of womb?

[@feedmysleaze1]

She is cute.

[@Jpg700]

@@Thehouseoffail I'd guess "vag" or similar.

[@al.s.3277]

“So if you’re poor, you’re dead”. Exactly! That’s a horrible reality.

[@bluexblondebaby]

Hi exactly. It’s sucks but it’s not nearly as bad as most countries.

[@TheRiiiight]

@Hi Emergency care isn't what saves lives. If you end up going to the emergency room and costing the hospital 100's of thousands of dollars because they're trying to save your body that is shutting down and dying from advanced stage cancer the person still died because they couldn't afford the 50k cancer treatment that would have kept them out of there. They still died to the medical system even if their final days were in a hospital.

[@ipotatosenpai7002]

@Jonathan Fairbank oof

[@BeckyNosferatu]

@Hi No, they do. Often. Don't be in denial, dude, it _does_ happen if you have a bill. In fact our ER just got reprimanded and it was all over our paper a while ago that they denied someone who was in collections and she went home and bled to death.

[@britishmgtow7251]

@@BeckyNosferatu www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/19/woman-dies-after-waiting-on-street-for-six-hours-for-ambulance-wales

[@nocturno7660]

Non american here, I love the US but my biggest fear is getting injured over there, I always travel with insurance. I actually had a check up, JUST a check up last year in the US because I wouldn't stop coughing (just had a cold) and the bill was 300+ USD just for looking at it, but the travel insurance covered it all

[@elisaa9981]

Two years ago, I had acute pancreatitis and cholestycitis (due to gallstones) and had to stay four days at the hospital. I had to pay a little less than ten dollars a day, and that included everything. So in total, 40 dollars. I had to come back to remove the gallstones, and it was the same cost. I live in Sweden. Ambulance doesn't cost the patient anything in my region, as it should be. Some regions charge between 14 and 24 dollars.

[@footballfanatic6210]

“So if you’re poor, you’re dead” she’s stating fact

[@DylanDkoh]

naaaa, you just be in huge dept

[@aljon28]

they have medicaid.. health insurance for poor people..

[@Osiris261]

old woman falls she brake´s her leg and starts screaming "No ambulance please,! No ambulance!, I cant afford it"

[@Artyomthewalrus]

The crazy thing is, the american government spends more money per person on healthcare than the canadian gov does (or atleast before covid)

[@hadley20]

@@night6724 it’s not just medicaid. a lot of people have more money than to be able to qualify for medicaid but can’t pay medical bills. also people need food, shelter, etc.

[@Mr.HotDogShirtGuy]

“So if you’re poor, you’re dead...” That’s the American Dream baby!

[@atrapdr6251]

What baby? Your $10,000 baby?

[@nalgas5569]

@@atrapdr6251 its 25000 to have your wife give birth here in the U.S.A

[@Thefamousgreen]

Not if you’re an Illegal Alien, then you are treated like royalty.

[@gabor_kov]

Exept we have Medicaid witch is completely free and just as good as any "free healthcare" system. You might have to wait for a CT or a surgury but that's normal in socialist countries. Also every one pays for health care one way or an other, look at taxes in England. One last point, there is a reason why America has the highest cancer survival ratings, our health care is so much higher standard than others. Again you won't die if you don't have Healthcare, by law er can't turn you down in case of emergency and Medicaid is free.

[@nuislaurin4124]

Mr. Hotdog Shirt Guy Wait.... ever heard of private insurance? I’ve never had to pay any of these prices at all. Plus, if you’re Poor you get economical help like welfare and healthcare. So nobody is dying in America because they don’t have enough money for medical stuff. Inform yourself.

[@cassieoz1702]

In Australia, an inhaler (without prescription, over-the-counter) is about $6.50

[@fatherson5907]

Same as in the US.

[@brozius]

Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

[@cassieoz1702]

@@fatherson5907 great! I was dismayed by the price quoted in the vid

[@chimkinnugget7134]

Getting injured is one of the worst case scenarios over here. My mom broke her wrist and my family had to change our entire budgeting plan for the year.

[@fatherson5907]

Why didn’t she have insurance?

[@Just-Some-Helium]

Ignore fatherson, He has room temperature iq.

[@fatherson5907]

@@Just-Some-Helium you can’t come up with a substantive rebuttal. Keep telling us about the paradise of Bangladesh 🤣🤣🤣

[@ThePartitoObliquo]

Imagine claiming to be the biggest democracy in the world and then you have to pay for your health

[@FATHOLLYWOODB123]

So does the U.K, just through taxation, which has it's benefits and doubts.

[@ThePartitoObliquo]

@@FATHOLLYWOODB123 yes of course, but if you come to europe and you feel sick, you don't have to pay (or very little). Me going to the states and start feeling sick: yes it's going to be 15.000$. True story

[@ThePartitoObliquo]

@@FATHOLLYWOODB123 + USA healtcare sistem is totally against the Hippocratic Oath

[@ceu160193]

@@FATHOLLYWOODB123 Consider it your government insurance, so if you get into trouble, government will do stuff to get you back to health.

[@altaccount7696]

First off, healthcare in the U.S. is arguably more democratic, since multiple companies can compete with each other, allowing users to "vote" with their money (at least, when there aren't monopolies), and second, no healthcare is free. That is just silly - doctors must get paid, technology must be innovated, all of which is extremely expensive. Countries with public healthcare get away with it by charging higher taxes than the U.S., while at the same time basically creating an artificial monopoly which limits innovation, and also hurting richer people and helping poorer people, might I add without any consent. Yes, very democratic, taking money from rich people just because they aren't the majority and using it to benefit the poor people, who contribute the least to society.

[@luisceja3079]

EA: pay to win American Healthcare System: Pay to live.

[@farhanmir284]

hEAlthcare

[@DeadlyCyanide1]

Hahaha that ain't wrong hahaha we're all going to die and no one fuckn cares so might as well just laugh ourselves into the grave.

[@thatcherridings8388]

Gold

[@ximaxwellix]

I was shocked about the "Hold your baby"-DLC

[@acowfrommars3565]

Insurance tho

[@Pls_pull_up_to_the_next_window]

As an American, I want to be somewhere else 🙃

[@Pls_pull_up_to_the_next_window]

I’m moving countries- 🙃

[@fatherson5907]

You’re a privileged and entitled westerner who has an easy life (that you still fail miserably at) so you desperately seek out imaginary victimhood to blame anything but yourself for your failures. You’ve never been abroad 🤣🤣🤣

[@ronnie7075]

I live in Qld Australia- the Ambulance tariff is added to every electricity bill per quarter, when the bills come out. So every household and business pays towards the Ambulance service. Our Ambulance is free otherwise. Birthing costs used to be about $1,500 for a caesarian, but a lot more now I guess.

[@aszhara2900]

"So if you're poor you're dead" Yes, about 40000 people a year actually

[@DiRtYLaWs2007]

Aszhara That’s the Tory dream. BORIS OUT.

[@dinsel9691]

Now that is what you call Eugenics mate.. I LOVE IT

[@ImNeurons]

and rising...

[@rafosier]

Neurons True, but only the poor ones.

[@90MysteriumFascinans]

This makes me so fucking outraged. It’s time to fight for our rights. This is bullshit.

[@shadowprincessnami3412]

“So if you’re poor you’re dead.” She just summed up the American healthcare system in 6 words.

[@guinter89]

and poor people from other countries still want to go to the US, why is that? Must be a very horrible place to live 🙄 Or maybe, people who want to make money in the US are able to, obviously, the ones who are legal immigrants

[@RebelGoPro]

Guy above me is chatting bare shit

[@shadowprincessnami3412]

guinter89 what the hell are you on about? The second half of that wasn’t even coherent.

[@Jesse-Karn]

Scratch the "So," and you'll get the summary in 5 words

[@cyronader]

you are still breathing yes?

[@jujubees5855]

Funny thing is wealthy Brits will travel here to have the Texas surgeon who put in my now late husband's pacemaker/defibrillator because he will do the difficult surgery your doctors won't touch. And I was just an accounting clerk and husband was disabled. And it was a difficult surgery that took skill beyond textbook as my poor husband was in bad shape. We weren't rich at all. Didn't Tony Wilson, a TV presenter have to rely on donations for treatment the NHS refuse to pay? NHS sounds great until you get really, REALLY, sick.

[@rogermurph101]

Not sure where these numbers come from. I guess it’s what the health care providers are charging the insurance companies? Inhalers cost me $10, my four children’s births costed me $0 each, and my daughter’s ambulance ride cost me $400. I will say, that last one pissed me off.

[@emeyeenaych]

kid turns 18 the government: *_your free trial of living has ended_*

[@antonioazulamarillo7579]

17*

[@tibsyy895]

LMAO ! :D

[@vicky121wicky3]

LOL 😂

[@bdggress6259]

Premium membership costs only $250 (inhaler included)

[@kaiwalyshinde4118]

EA Nation

[@meganmontiel284]

When he asks how expensive an ambulance is, and the guy says with a shocked tone “there’s a price for that??”

[@vickioliver0823]

My husband was in a motorcycle accident this last summer. On top of the $2,500.00 bill for the ambulance ride, there was an additional $400 he had to pay because he isn't a tax payer in the township where it happened. As if the original charge didn't go to them to begin with.

[@hamnchee]

@@vickioliver0823 Should people who ride motorcycles pay higher tax rates under a universal health care system?

[@vickioliver0823]

@@hamnchee I personally don't think so, but that all depends on how that is set up. I could see them requiring you to also carry motorcycle insurance to help lessen the cost to provide riders with health coverage. But, at least where we live, it's a relatively short riding season. So you would probably drop the additional motorcycle coverage for 6-9 months out of the year ( we already do that). It would be silly to penalize someone for an entire year of an additional liability charge that wouldn't be used for most of the year.

[@vickioliver0823]

@@hamnchee But I also don't have any personal experience with a universal healthcare system, since I live in the states.

[@jorritvanderkooi939]

In my country with proper insurance you don’t even need to pay for a trauma helicopter

[@gamertactics1722]

Its crazy how high healthcare is, its quite saddening.

[@Josurr_Madhawk]

Had to call an ambulance a year ago for intense pain. Here in British Columbia, i paid $80 (which if you don't pay by the due date they'll just take it off my income tax the following year) for the ambulance and like $50 for the medication from the pharmacist. All in all i capped out at $130

[@BaolanGS]

Me: *cut my finger* US doctor: *put bandage on* Also US doctor: "that will be 5k"

[@ty2668]

Me: *burns my hand with direct contact of the heat source in the toaster oven* My mom: oH mY gAwD- put neosporin on it Me: *hexcuse me what* ~~Around two months later, my burn has scarred~~ My mom: IT SCARRED BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T PUT ENOUGH NEOSPORIN ON IT Me: *IT SCARRED BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T GET ME ANY FUCKING TREATMENT OTHER THAN ONE TUBE OF NEOSPORIN AND IT'S A FUCKING BURN*

[@randomizedperson]

Sea! My mom treats me and it always work??? Except that time I got the flue that was not a good experience

[@Tyler-cm6vk]

It's not the doctors, the people in the insurance companies are taking advantage of these people.

[@thecreativemillenial]

#savage #facts

[@Brindale]

Elementary Schoolers: "I scraped my knee I need a band aid" School "Nurse": "Here's a Caprisun walk it off"

[@elliot7753]

“Hey, well done, the baby’s alive and healthy. Now, insert your credit card here and we’ll allow you to keep it!”

[@connorshort2308]

E A sports it's in the game

[@w1z4rd9]

Kidnapping in a few steps.

[@Zequabtw]

I love the profile pic 😂 phil jones is a goon

[@vishalbhat8602]

Ah the Phil Jones pfp 😂

[@santinosingh6047]

Credit card declined Doctor:well i guess its gonna have to go back in

[@sweetpjeb23]

I got rear ended at a stand still almost 5 months ago and sustained pretty severe whiplash. I’ve been going to physical therapy twice a week and chiropractor 3 times a week ever since and occasionally a doctor. I have “good” insurance that would cost over $400 a month without obamacare. My insurance company still initially denied my claim for the MRI that my doctor ordered saying it wasn’t “medically necessary”. Finally got it covered and still can’t get the MRI because they’re making me pay a copay of $300 at the time of service. Even though I was just minding my own business on the way to work and a dumb college student hit me, I still have to pay for a lot of this sh!t and still am not getting proper treatment due to cost. (Not to mention having less money due to missing work for 5+ appointments a wee)

[@lotsaspaghetticodejr.6488]

Back in 2011 I had a welding burn when a bead of steel fell on my arm, down my sleeve, from overhead welding. After several hours of arguing with the doctor who wanted to do an MRI You know, with solidified steel in my arm I was finally discharged with a prescription for an 8 ounce tube of burn ointment, and a bill for $380

[@davidfaz2435]

The best comment is: " is there a price for that? "

[@DeVocthcKa]

@Kurogane -sensei Around 3000 dollars per person a year. It's a lot if you don't get sick. Also, the HHS in America costs the taxpayer an average of around 700 dollars a year. The difference American's would pay yearly for free universal healthcare is about 2,300 dollars. That's one ambulance ride.

[@yassfishy]

@Kurogane -sensei oversimplified babyyyyyyyyyy

[@ellie8272]

@Kurogane -sensei the difference is that tax is actually the cost. Private insurance companies can jack up the prices since you literally need it to live. Another difference is that it scales to your income. Poor people can actually afford to get healthcare, whereas in the US they'd simply die

[@inflammatorycommentswithno2407]

It’s been proven that Medicare for all would save the government and Americans money over the current one, yet they still want to argue this BS “we can’t afford it!” or “but my taxes will be high!” shit

[@Redditard]

In India to my knowledge there is no extra fee for ambulance service if u call it it is within 1000₹ or so I dunno I never went to hospital in an ambulance (asked my parents bout it k)

[@dresdentube1]

Whoever came up with the idea of charging $40 for the mother to hold her baby has thoroughly earned an afterlife stuck in a Hieronymus Bosch painting.

[@remi1230]

I blame the Pink Tax & Patriarchy engrained within American society

[@liamott7057]

Or a Thomas Kinkade painting.

[@soulpkeruk]

@@j-69 There is making money and then taking the piss. they are taking the piss.

[@tommyfred6180]

the real question is would you want to be treated by staff that would not let you hold kid till you payed up? i can see why so many Americans come to the UK to give birth.

[@jamieadam2284]

That fucked up. I'll "finesse" my baby. Not paying those mf. LONG LIVE NHS

[@ChristysChannelYall]

I’m a RN in the U.S. i don’t have health insurance because I’m priced out. It would be $1280 a month. I’m a home health nurse so I don’t make much at all compared with other nurses so this is too much for me to afford. And it would not even do me any good as the deductible is $10,000. I’m in medical debt over $16,000 because I had a kidney stone and did not know what was wrong so went to the ER as it literally felt like I was dying. Even so I called a friend to come take me because the ambulance bill would have been insane. I was there about 8 hours, had some blood work, urine tests and a CT scan. One dose of pain med and that is it. If I get sick again, I’m opting to die. It would be better than dealing with all of these bills. All while I go take care of another human being. This country is disgusting and sick when it comes to healthcare and you are better off dead than seeking help or you WILL go bankrupt unless you are VERY wealthy.

[@fatherson5907]

So get a better job. Nurses are extremely in demand. You’re lazy.

[@walther2492]

@@fatherson5907 Are you a troll or plain dumb?

[@brozius]

@@walther2492 Don't bother, Father son is a liar and a troll. He's a butt hurt American who can't stand that other countries have it better than the US.

[@aleph8888]

Employers pay most of the cost. And no one is going to wait a year to see a consultant. But it’s free? No more money for the awful NHS. Change to an insurance system.

[@brozius]

That is so much bullshit. It doesn't take a year to see a consultant. Waiting times in the UK are the same as in the US. You have been told lies from your health insurance companies.

[@Ell-te7ix]

go piss off to america then, simple and don't call an ambulance unless you are at deaths door

[@SikSh0oter]

I'll put it this way: If I'm severely injured and need to go to the hospital, DON'T call an ambulance. Call Uber.

[@wojciechmuras553]

Bruh, ambulance ain't a transporter. It's a mobile mini-hospital designed to keep you alive on your way. Your Uber doesn't have a supply of blood, a trained medical professional and sterile tools to deliver first aid.

[@caposolomon8745]

What this video doesn't tell you is that no one in the United States actually pays that. Everyone here have insurances which if you do the math actually cost less in taxes even when paying for it. You are being lie to, they will make it sound like healthcare in the UK is just like in the United States but just free. That is wrong, the healthcare in the United States is way better, the service is Superior, the doctors and nurses are way more accommodating because they are paid more and the wait time is lower. There are 3 hospitals in the same small town so if you so if you don't like one you can go to another. Not to mention all the privately owned clinics open by doctors. If you are poor and can't afford insurance they's this thing call Medicaid which provides you with free insurance.

[@EMAYisMCA]

Most of the time you don't have to pay for the ambulance to come out and stabilize you. It depends on where you live. Definitely call an ambulance so they can check you out and stabilize you and then refuse the ride. Then call an Uber!

[@stephaniehanley1016]

Last time I was in an ambulance, the “professional” kept flirting with me even with a ring on my finger

[@EMAYisMCA]

@@stephaniehanley1016 wow, that's disgusting. I'm assuming you were in some sort of medical distress at the time. That's a whole new level of dickishness.

[@GeoffreyReemer]

- "So if you're poor, you're dead?" - "Don't be ridiculous, you first have to save up for that."

[@gracefullyinthegrave1964]

It can cost about 10 grand to die in America

[@Growmetheus]

Olivia Weathers ill never own that much at once so i should be fine right?

[@mariemmeryouma4768]

@@gracefullyinthegrave1964 what ?! To die ! Really ?

[@mariemmeryouma4768]

@@jbird4478 that's horrible

[@SpaceCattttt]

Nah. Just steal. You have no education. And even if you do, it's the worst education system in the western world, so you know next to nothing. You might get a job if you're either willing to wait on tables or you have rich parents, but even so, because the whole fucking country is owned and run by corporations that belong to the 1%, all it takes is for you to break your leg or have your appendix removed, and both you and your entire family could find yourself spending decades paying back what you owe and most likely get ruined in the process. So you turn to crime to support yourself. And then you get caught and incarcerated. Especially if you're black. The United States is a nation based on greed and corruption, founded by the worst scum ever to walk the planet. It's a country that breeds criminals by doing nothing to promote social reform. Everyone's in it for themselves. The American dream. Fuck yeah...

[@stwilliamsport]

Had to pay out of pocket for my iud in 2015 because my husbands insurance at the time was grandfathered and didn’t have a clause for iuds. I spent 1200 for Mirena. I have tricare now. I paid 20 dollars out of pocket for the copay.

[@strix3688]

ok! that actually hurtful to hear it! I'm born in Indonesia... and the cost for hospital was 16.24 US dollar (which is alot to us tbh)... But I didn't expected THAT much for US hospital!

[@EaziGX]

I'm in London, and just had a child. We paid a total of £8, and that was the carpark charge.

[@TrapKelly]

@@delko000 Not in Austria. They really charge you. Atleast we don't have to pay for calling an ambulance right?

[@metalvideos1961]

@@delko000 Nope they do it in the Netherlands as well

[@metalvideos1961]

@@delko000 not true. i know a girl from france and she told me that she had to pay for parking spaces as well. so dont say something you cant back up. if you talk about europe to a non european they think every country in europe is the same. which is not. we have still our own laws and rules. so dont say something that you cant back up. it makes you look stupid

[@metalvideos1961]

@@delko000 maybe not everywhere in france. different restrictions have different rules. also i have been to france tons of times. we even have friends in france. and we had to go once to the hospital long long time ago and we had to pay for parking spaces. so yeah dont know france is big with different rules

[@Findus1701]

In Germany you also pay for the hospital carparks but honestly considering what people in America pay for medical care - I’ll pay all the parking charges much rather haha

[@bartoszwojtaszek2236]

The fact that you have to pay to hold your own baby after the birth is just disgusting. Literally

[@thinkngskeptic]

Don't most mothers want that?

[@Madelope]

BillyBumpyBear Id throw it out the window if I found out I had to pay to hold it

[@maeangelicaninon914]

Maybe HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[@bangtanbangtan4989]

BillyBumpyBear the disgusting part was paying to hold your own baby. Not holding the baby itself.

[@jamesvandao-vergona3257]

It’s a worker thing. They just want to get the baby out and clean it up...then on to the next one...but now you are keeping a nurse in your room that could be helping another person...if you wanna cut the line to hold your baby then yea buy the ticket, or just wait a lil...you think after making you fat and destroying your va jay jay you’d want a lil break...lol

[@_sb_1168]

I’m an American, my parents are immigrants. Sometimes I just think to myself “why move here? Why not Europe or even Canada (although I heard the housing situation in Canada is just as outrageous as healthcare is here) why go to America, where we might have to sell our house in case one of us were to get severely injured and/or sick.” I hope when I’m an adult I’ll be able to move somewhere in Europe where things aren’t as hellish as they are here. It’s not even healthcare that sucks here. It’s the education, people, stupid politics, corrupt government run by businessmen and soulless corporations, rather than brilliant people who could fix this stupid country.

[@fatherson5907]

You’re a privileged and entitled westerner with an easy life that you still managed to fail miserably at, so you desperately seek out imaginary victimhood to avoid taking responsibility for your massive failures. Complaining about how rough you have it as you type away on a $800 phone in your climate controlled home. And the sad part is that your parents are responsible for your ignorance and laziness. They tried but failed to instill any critical thinking in you. Look in the mirror and realize how ridiculous that is. It’s sad, kid. You’re a complete joke. And so are they.