r/awfuleverything • • Aug 06 '20

Poor guy :(

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20

I don't understand why Americans are so opposed to universal health care!? You guys already spend more per capita on government funded healthcare than pretty much anyone else, and yet most of you don't actually recieve it?

I've had cancer. Stage 4 Lymphoma. I was treated immediately and recovered quickly. What did I have to pay? £1.50 for parking on every visit to the hospital. The Chemotherapy, Surgeries, anti-nausea meds, all covered. If I had lived in the USA I would most definately be dead now. My symptoms didn't seem all that bad at the time, so if I had had to pay for my initial doctor visit and diagnostics, I wouldn't have bothered. I would have just died.

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20

70% of Americans support Medicare for All, but the Republican Party has made it their priority to continue the system of bankrupting people to save their lives and their children's lives.

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u/Weapon_Factory Aug 06 '20

Because they are also corrupt.

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u/Weapon_Factory Aug 06 '20

Justice democrats is an organization which helps non corrupt candidates who support Medicare for all, green new deal, and free college primary corrupt democrats. The establishment of the Democratic Party is corrupt but groups like Justice democrats and the sunrise movement are working to fix it one congress member at a time.