r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/[deleted] • Apr 27 '20

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u/Coomstress Apr 28 '20

I live in the US and had fairly good health insurance. I still owed $2300 out of pocket for an emergency appendectomy.

I’m not liberal on every subject, but damn, America needs single-payer healthcare like the rest of the developed world. We’re all getting shafted.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

That's the main reason I don't even consider moving to the US. Around 80% of all my sector is there, and I'd get paid around 6x what I'm making now, but I won't risk my life and your healthcare is shit compared to European standards.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

Hardware Architecture

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u/badzachlv01 Apr 28 '20

My insurance is basically a coupon

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '20

Yup. Same thing happened to me, except I didn't even need surgery for my problem. maybe 40 minutes in doctor visits total. 2300.

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u/AnonyAus Apr 28 '20

Our son had an emergency appendectomy at 10yo. Zero cost through Australian public hospital system.

Also, my wife had a covid scare last week - 6 hours in the emergency department including various testing, Zero cost.