Was looking into the procedure of vasectomies (which are freely available in my country) and I always see some line like this in Wikipedia for most interesting medical procedures or other important services.
The U.S. Affordable Care Act (signed into law in 2010) does not cover vasectomies, although eight states require state-health insurance plans to cover the cost.
Why the heck are Unitedstadians even patriotic at all if they live on the basis of “this basic thing is only ensured on a state-by-state basis”.
We are essentially conditioned at a fairly early age to assume that our healthcare is the best in the world. It wasn’t until my late 20s-early 30s until I realized how asinine it was to have our employer be in charge of our healthcare.
And even with that we get these different packages that we can pick from and where we can pay more or less out of pocket and we use big fucking words like deductable ro make things even harder for us as peasants to navigate.
After I became terminally online I started to see astroturf style brigading about Canadian and UK healthcare from people saying that waits are hours long and sometimes procedures will have a 3 month waiting list or whatever and I know it’s all all slant and propaganda.
There is nothing we can really even do about it. I’ve even lost family over arguments about it. When you read that most of Europe pays like 5-8% for healthcare for everyone and we pay 35% of our check for just our own family coverage it really makes me angry.
That fits well with when I was talked to my mom about this. She thought those other countries medical care system were the worst and that if we had anything like that, it would ruin our precious predatory debt gouging system. She thought we lived in one of the best countries on this planet when it’s like, no we don’t, we live in one of the most evil. It also kind of makes me sad she believed that we lived on the best country on the world because before she passed away this year, she had like so much medical debt and she was worried of going homeless. I dunno, it just really upsetting.