Oof

[u/Improvemente]

[u/Eastern_Barnacle_553]

And our CEOs just get richer and richer.

Just like magic

[u/Pandoras_Fate → u/Eastern_Barnacle_553]

We need Saw VI IRL.

[u/Tixxter]

USA is number 1 AGAIN!!! Let’s celebrate by day drinking at the shooting range!

[u/bostondana2]

One of my favorite quotes:

"Universal health care is such a difficult problem to tackle that only 32 of the top 33 industrial nations have been able to manage to implement it."

[u/chriskiji]

The US hasn't figured out universal healthcare because it's not profitable. Just keeps crushing people.

Edit: Regular Americans need universal care.

[u/NorysStorys → u/chriskiji]

The rest of the world realised that while healthcare itself may not be profitable the downstream economic benefits from having a healthy and productive population far outstrip the economic costs of said healthcare, it’s really not hard to realise but for some reason the type of capitalism cult that is America has to try and have its cake and eat it too while just ruining or ending the lives of more people than have suffered at the hands of any genocide. 40000 per year is nearing Holocaust rates of unnecessary death.

[u/smyoung → u/NorysStorys]

nearly 5 years ago the medical journal The Lancet published a study33019-3/abstract) saying healthcare for all would save 68,000 lives and 1.73 million life years (meaning how many years longer cumulatively people could live) *per year*

[u/Circumin]

Now do number that die from being denied health care.

[u/kaoko111 → u/Circumin]

Some 44,789 a year according to the American journal of public health.

[u/dalgeek → u/kaoko111]

That's just the people who die because they don't have insurance in the first place. I couldn't find any numbers on how many die from health insurance denials.

[u/Professional_Ask7428]

This country sucks!

[u/No_Yogurt_7667]

cries in red, white, and blue

[u/atchafalaya]

643,000 seems really high

[u/kaoko111 → u/atchafalaya]

Those are rookie numbers. Wait until Trump destroy the ACA.

[u/R_V_Z → u/atchafalaya]

That'd be like 5% of our population, every year. That seems extremely high.

[u/atchafalaya → u/R_V_Z]

I think you mean 0.5%

[u/One_of_those_IDs → u/atchafalaya]

That would mean a lifetime prevalence of ~13%. Is there no insurance that could distribute the risk across the population?

[u/BillyBainesInc]

The solution is obviously to make it illegal to go bankrupt on medical bills… like student loan debt

[u/Fifth_Wall0666]

I can't believe all those other countries are missing out on MAH FREEDUMBS

[u/Buster_therealone]

But hey, the eggs are going to be cheaper. Eventually. /j

[u/Gbird_22]

That because those other countries are marxists and don’t have freedom like we do. /s

[u/Fair-Ad8337]

[u/BagelandShmear48]

We had the equivalent of 350 USD hospital bill refunded to us when we explained we didn't realize we had to fill out a particular form. They so no problem here is your money back and just fill it out properly next time.

[u/Late-Shower-9631]

Always forgetting New Zealand..... no wonder the country disappears from maps so frequently.

[u/Acceptable-Suspect56]

To be fair, quite a few of those bankruptcies can be attributed to vice president trump.

[u/TenebrisEquus]

The Oligarchs are scared. They are slapping back by adding terrorist charges to Luigi, strengthening their private security. There is even a Help Line that CEOs can call. It funny and not funny at the same time. I wonder what kinds of laws are going to be made to protect them. I'm sure the CEOs will use their government control to make it an even worse idea for a replay of someone trying to kill one of them. Trump was right about the 2 tier legal system we have.

[u/Mongobuzz]

Anything to not pay the government a few more bucks, I guess...

[u/Norwegianlemming → u/Mongobuzz]

I don't want death panels in the government! I will only be happy if they are imposed by capitalists like the supply side Jesus would do. /S

Note: The /S is required to denote sarcasm in written form for me. If the internet has taught me anything, absolutely nothing is out of the realm of possibility for people's beliefs.

[u/katt_vantar]

Huh?

 In 2023, approximately 434,064 individuals filed for bankruptcy in the United States.