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Regardless of how you feel about her, the fact that people need to resort to gofundmes in this country for healthcare costs is so fucked up.
Best economy in the world and it can't even afford a model resembling free healthcare for its citizens. What a joke lmao
Don't think there's many countries that just give away free ACL surgeries.
It's not technically "free", but when I'm in the hospital I pay a fixed 25 euro per day rate regardless of whether I'm laying in bed or being operated on. All procedures included. And a couple of physio visits afterwards.
And what's the waiting time/chances you'll ever actually get surgery?
Australia isn't as good as many places with it's free healthcare (altho still better than many others) and I've known many people (and been one myself) who are just on an endless waiting list for surgery and have had to find a way to take care of it privately or figure out a way to live without it. Even still with something like an ACL the options for free surgery may not involve something that can get you skateboarding etc and just be something that can get you able to work again.
I'm not an expert and I have no recent experience myself, but in general it's been getting a lot shittier in the recent years. There are definitely a lot of people waiting in queue. Sometimes in those situations the government will give you a voucher for private healthcare, but I'm not sure how common that is.
There's also this wage gap thing now that people who have good jobs usually also get employer-provided private healthcare. In some of my past jobs I was basically able to walk to an MRI and say beam me up and not have to pay anything. That's how I know I have a bulging disc that doesn't really affect me.
But even still, if I would go to the private side to get ACL surgery, the cost is to my knowledge 2500-4000 euros. If you have medical insurance, you pay the deductible which is 150-500 euros. So this example of having insurance and still having to pay $20,000 on top sound cuckoo-bananas. But I guess that 20k is for the LA-physio 3x per week for a year, which equals to 128 per visit which is not a totally unreasonable price maybe?
My comment wasn't necessarily about the specific instance of an ACL surgery but rather the state of the US healthcare system at large. It's absolutely egregious that the US is still caught behind in their model of healthcare when other similarly adjacent countries have proven a mixed model economy with universal healthcare has proven quite successful.
When the argument "how long do u have to wait tho durrr" comes up, people are usually referring to the bad wait times in Canada. However, it's important to note that the Canadian healthcare has its own complete set of problems (defunding of public healthcare, monopoly on pharmacies, low pay for healthcare staff, pandemic). All these contribute to the slow lag in the Canadian healthcare that otherwise would be fine if public healthcare was properly equipped. It's also important to realize that Canadian healthcare is done on a provinical/state level, so there's going to be big variation between locations.
It's just upsetting because common conservative rhetoric is to blame poor people and immigrants socially and politically for things like crime, onlyfans, when realistically, the cost of living is so enormously high people sometimes HAVE to resort to these things. This isn't a defence on criminal activity, but just an observation of the hypocritical logic of blaming someone for selling weed when it costs three to four digits for every visit to the doctor.