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US Politics 23h
“Socialism is awesome we all need it because capitalism is a failure” Canada: Average salary = $45,000 Poorest U.S. state (Mississippi): Average salary = $47,000 Lol
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Anonymous 23h

Thanks for pointing out typical red state with capitalism still sucks I guess lol

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Anonymous 23h

Canada's socialist?

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Anonymous 22h

So you’re admitting that a larger social safety net means a higher quality of life even with less average income? Canada is considered one of the happiest and healthiest nations on the planet. Sounds like we need free healthcare.

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Anonymous 23h

Canada: Average wait time for specialist = 6 months

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 23h
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Anonymous replying to -> #3 23h

Fr imagine living on that but also have zero of Canada’s social safety net

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 23h

This is life expectancy at birth, right? Switzerland and Norway are rich as hell, so no surprise they live 83 years instead of… 79? There’s also so many non-healthcare related factors. People’s diets, sedentary lifestyle, even car accident rates. The basket of countries in the above chart represent… what? 3% of global population?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 23h

This is basically every first world country except us lmao

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 23h

Idk why people bring this up, as if the US doesn’t also have egregiously long wait times for specialists. I just tried to make an appointment with a specialist yesterday and the earliest availability was December 😐

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 23h

They’ve figured this out. We can’t bc we are beholden to a multi billion dollar insurance industry that needs us to be sick to make money

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 23h

Ofc there are, but is it not even concerning to you we spend vastly more than other developed nations while seeing worse results?

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Anonymous replying to -> #9 22h

They wait 6 months to get into a specialist, recommend MAID if it takes too long, and you should read about medical tourism to the U.S. (which exists)

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 22h

Because America, famously, has no wait times. Nobody there is asking for American healthcare where a single hospital stay can bankrupt you. That should tell you something. Americans will regularly refuse an ambulance because of the cost.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 22h

yes, but guess who can afford medical tourism? Only privileged, wealthy folks! His entire point is that 6 months of waiting is better than not being able to afford healthcare

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 22h

You guys still believe this shit? There are more working class people getting shit like plastic surgery nowadays it’s unreal.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 21h

41% of Americans carry some medical or dental debt which totals over 100 million people per KFF 24% of Americans have medical bills they are unable to pay or are past due 36% of households carry some medical debt 1 in 2 with debt owe $2,500+, 1 in 8 owe $10,000+

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