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Breaking Bad’s premise literally doesn’t work anywhere else but the US. * Walter gets diagnosed with cancer * Walter starts free chemo treatment within 14 days, while he is put on long term paid leave while he gets treatment and the school finds a temporary replacement teacher for Walter. The end.
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In 2020, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. was 24 deaths per 100,000 live births — more than three times the rate in most other high-income countries. In the Netherlands, almost no women died from maternal complications at 1.2. per 100,000. In Australia this is 2 per 100,000. For black women in the US, the rate is *55* per 100,000. And no, the white rate is 17 per 100,000.
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Here’s a reality that ‘doesn’t make sense’ until you dig deeper: Australian MRI providers are racking in money while American ones are going bankrupt, despite the American ones charging far more. How? Because the American ones have to have an army of lawyers and admin to chase up debts and therefore your cashflow being terrible vs the Australian one being paid on time, every time by the government, and therefore great cashflow and no expensive lawyers or admin needed. Also if you were Big Pharma, would you want the massive government contract or the small fry private hospitals one? Not to mention the government has far more buying power, thus can buy medical supplies at a far higher discount per unit. And they have no profit incentive. Universal healthcare literally wins in a free market.
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@ashleighsparkle8810 nothing to do with that as Australia has (unfortunately) comparable obesity rates, yet 12x better mortality rates. It is purely access to healthcare and healthcare procedures.
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@arcturionblade1077 why else do you think cheap / free education and healthcare is gated behind the armed forces in the United States? We both know the real reason.
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Everyone outside the US: Time to watch the Americans bicker in the comments section and also try to come up with ‘solutions’ that have already been solved by other countries long ago. Yours, Rest of the world
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Also Americans, what isn’t touched on is that it affects American immigrants to other countries too: Example: In many countries in the EU, Australia and New Zealand, many have reciprocal healthcare agreements in which citizens of those countries living in another country can get treated in hospitals in an emergency for free and vice versa. None of them have one for the US and US citizens.
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@lmmalcolm I am in Aus. 10% less, 12x better mortality rates - read who I was replying to.
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*developed industrialised countries * yeah, that industrialised part needs work Stares in Eskom
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In Australia, we pay a 2% gross tax for our universal healthcare. If you earn over AU $93,000 (US $58,500), this is an additional 1%, but you can dodge this by taking out private health insurance and claiming it back on your tax return. It is a terrible hybrid system that only subsidises private health insurance companies older patients for more healthy, working age ones. But even then private health insurance is FAR cheaper than in the US with far better coverage for the cost. Not to mention both are tied to you as an individual so you are free to move jobs anytime without thinking about how that would affect your healthcare coverage. Honestly, that is beyond a foreign concept everywhere else. And Canada? Yeah, that’s one of the weaker universal healthcare systems objectively.
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However if it comes down to it, you will bail for the NHS as that flight cost is ALOT cheaper.
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There’s a reason why cheap / free healthcare and education is gated behind the armed forces in the United States….
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@kerwinbrown4180 this is not how anything works 🤣
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1) Canada is one of the lesser ranked universal healthcare systems in the developed world objectively 2) this healthcare denial happens in the US more 3) universal healthcare is still cheaper and has more buying power
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@ashleighsparkle8810 most bankruptcies in the US are medical. Most medical bankruptcies are those with insurance.
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The NHS is slowly being dismantled by the Tories. A FY1 junior doctor gets paid 58% more in Australia. Not a typo. Fifty-eight percent.
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In reality, Canada has some of the poorest outcomes for a universal healthcare system in developed countries on multiple metrics objectively. Yours, Universal healthcare country here
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Only US healthcare isn’t free market at all. In a free market, the one with the biggest buying power and best funding wins. That’s universal healthcare
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Or this shouldn’t be needed in reality
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