It’s not possible to afford housing or robust healthcare in the US.
Keep in mind there’s no rule we have to tolerate either.
Imagine being a teenager in the US, having just seen how essential workers are treated, knowing in all likelihood your future is an “essential worker”.
Then watch Congress scapegoat Facebook.
It seems like a thread-derailing comment likely to drag down the quality of discussion.
> “ Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.”
Your comment, “Don’t forget to mention they still have full health coverage in the EU.” was doing exactly what the guidelines ask us not to.
My hope was that bringing attention to this would help deflate the impending generic argument about health care and help you improve future conversations on the site.
It was just an attempt to be helpful.
If the HN communities behavior is to point to a TOS I didn’t agree to at sign up, I’ll go ahead and logout and stay away
That’s some bait n switch, end run around norms, patronizer enabling, dark pattern nonsense.
The point of these guidelines is that _generally_ most people follow them and it stops this place going to garbage like every forum before it, and allows it to stay a place for professionals to discuss topics, rather than us vs them flamebaiting and boring jokes.
You're totally welcome to go, but you're also welcome to stay. If you step back and calm down, you might find you like it here :).
But you’re right, you’ve put me off on the whole idea. Good effort. There’s no way around artificial scarcity.
For people with pre-existing conditions it begins at a younger age and is recommended more frequently, based on the determination of your GP Surgery.
You should get your first invitation to an NHS Health Check around the time of your 40th birthday.
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/nhs-health-check/what-is-an-nh...
And all that extra time and money got me was people saying “You should be glad it isn’t socialized health care!” Yeah. If it were, I would’ve gotten treated faster and cheaper.
I live in Canada, and recently had appendicitis. My appendix was removed less than 24 hours after symptoms began, and 10-12 hours after I arrived at the hospital. I walked in to the ER (after a very painful car ride), they asked me some questions and gave them my health card, they said how much, I said 7, they did blood tests and I had a CT scan, I waited a few hours, and then I was wheeled up to the operating room, after which I spent the night in the hospital and discharged the following morning. Not once did the question of insurance or payment come up, and I even had a private room after the surgery.
Something ridiculous like 70% of lifetime healthcare spending in the US occurs in the last two years of a person's life (half-remembered number from like 10 years ago). The uncomfortable truth is that we spend way too much on hail-mary treatments for people who are almost certainly going to die, and too much on useless shit like knee replacements for the elderly, and far too little on the earlier stages of their life. But nobody wants to tell the elderly "no" because they vote.
Obamacare had the right idea with "death panels". A lot of treatments that happen near the end aren't medically justified by quality-adjusted years-of-life or similar metrics. And that money comes out of the healthcare of younger people, whom the US treats like shit compared to the elderly. Because they don't vote.
But nobody likes the optics of "pulling the plug on grandma".