I had to repeatedly explain to an American that the £107 she paid at the hospital was actually the entire cost she had to pay the NHS after they set her broken leg and put a cast on it, and there wasn't another bill coming for the rest. Then had to explain there wasn't a separate bill for the ambulance, and that the £107 was the increased cost non-UK citizens pay. She was convinced she was going to be paying £1000+ even with her insurance.
My partner was in a car accident and they needed surgery and a month stay in a hospital along with another month of physical therapy. Total cost? $560,000 big, beautiful US dollars. While they were in the ER still, we had to lawyer up and start suing. It's a disastrous system.
I think about this a lot. It literally is a disaster, a complete catastrophe; but Americans are so used to it that it’s invisible like the air around them. It’s too bad the term woke was co-opted because it really is like waking up. It doesn’t have to mean waking up to capitalism and becoming a Marxist. It can simply mean seeing through the veil of capitalist realism and the extremely bad situation we’re already in.
If we took a system that our country does reasonably well — let’s say food safety — and fucked it up as badly as our healthcare, I think people would be extremely unhappy. But with healthcare we’ve just never had it good to begin with.
I've started calling it out. My mom is specifically getting pissed off about it and it's cracking me up. Any casual it's just the way it is comment gets met with a no. You are allowing this to happen right now and stating it is what it is is defeatist.
Eventually they gotta wake up to the reality we should be killing every single heathcare insurer and insurance worker till it's resolved.
We pay them to deal with the care for us. So we also need to attack them when they completely fucking fail us.
I had to repeatedly explain to an American that the £107 she paid at the hospital was actually the entire cost she had to pay the NHS after they set her broken leg and put a cast on it, and there wasn't another bill coming for the rest. Then had to explain there wasn't a separate bill for the ambulance, and that the £107 was the increased cost non-UK citizens pay. She was convinced she was going to be paying £1000+ even with her insurance.
My partner was in a car accident and they needed surgery and a month stay in a hospital along with another month of physical therapy. Total cost? $560,000 big, beautiful US dollars. While they were in the ER still, we had to lawyer up and start suing. It's a disastrous system.
I think about this a lot. It literally is a disaster, a complete catastrophe; but Americans are so used to it that it’s invisible like the air around them. It’s too bad the term woke was co-opted because it really is like waking up. It doesn’t have to mean waking up to capitalism and becoming a Marxist. It can simply mean seeing through the veil of capitalist realism and the extremely bad situation we’re already in.
If we took a system that our country does reasonably well — let’s say food safety — and fucked it up as badly as our healthcare, I think people would be extremely unhappy. But with healthcare we’ve just never had it good to begin with.
I've started calling it out. My mom is specifically getting pissed off about it and it's cracking me up. Any casual it's just the way it is comment gets met with a no. You are allowing this to happen right now and stating it is what it is is defeatist. Eventually they gotta wake up to the reality we should be killing every single heathcare insurer and insurance worker till it's resolved. We pay them to deal with the care for us. So we also need to attack them when they completely fucking fail us.
God I fucking hate it here…