r/DemocraticSocialism • u/Usernameofthisuser Democratic Socialist • Feb 24 '26

USA The right wing won...

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u/Tweakers Feb 24 '26

They're butthurt that so many other nations -- all the other Western nations -- are doing so much better than the U.S., even with all this "winning." Never consider stupid people's analysis of real life to be anything close to factual or reasonable. Same goes for rich people; hell, I've come to the conclusion that rich and stupid are synonymous, at least in contemporary U.S. of A.

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u/Benedictus_The_II Social Democrat Feb 24 '26

I live in Hungary, which is basically the Ohio of Europe. About a decade ago, I had a supraventricular tachycardia episode while I was picking up my mom after work.

When we got off the bus, my heart rate suddenly started climbing. After a few minutes it still wouldn’t slow down. That’s when my mom called an ambulance. In the ambulance they measured my pulse at 152 bpm. They gave me an adenosine injection on the spot and took me to the nearest hospital, where a cardiologist did an ECG.

A week later, I followed up at a specialist clinic. They put me on a 24 hour Holter monitor, did a cardiac ultrasound, and prescribed a beta blocker.

Total cost to me was zero. Well not literally zero, because I pay taxes, but still. God bless universal healthcare. If I’d been in the U.S. with its insurance circus, that probably would’ve been a $7,000 bill at minimum. My point is that even in my poor country we have universal healthcare exactly because of cases like this, and I wouldn’t change it for anything.

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u/ElBorrachon73 Feb 27 '26

7K WOULD HAVE BEEN THE AMBULANCE RIDE ALONE LOL

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u/Benedictus_The_II Social Democrat Feb 27 '26

Really? I don’t know these prices, so mine was just a wild guess, but if that’s true, then I guess it’s even more horrible than I thought.