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[–] ieatmeat@lemmy.world 90 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Congratulations, you just figured out how healthcare works in the rest of developed countries

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago

Yup. Everything is better when everyone is doing better. It’s weirdly simple.

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And also in some of the non developed countries (Cuba, Brazil)

[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

"Cuba is such a shit hole."

Consistently has some of the best doctors. Also, healthcare workers from Kenya? Some of the best in the world.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm just speaking from personal experience. If I was given adequate health care 20 years earlier there is no telling how different my life may have been. Instead I had to achieve impossible feats to get insurance which then made those seemingly impossible things trivial.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Its so weird living in a country where healthcare is a right, and seeing how E everyone in USA is against public healthcare until their insurance stops covering expenses.