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It's free in my country. The same with the medical care you receive: is free.
It is wild how countries less powerful and substantially poorer than the US can afford this apparently onerous cost. A mystery that will never be solved
Well, my country is not exactly poor. We just have a huge innequality.
Anyway, have you ever tried to listen to the people you guys label as communists in US? Turns out that most of them are not communists at all! They are just fighting for their right to have access to good healthcare, good educational system and good job regulamentations.
Surely there is a communist here and there, but most of the people that is labeled as communist is not communist! They just are tired to live in a place where profit is prioritized over people
You're posting on Hexbear. WE'RE the communists.
Ah... Ok ok, I see it now
I don't really know each instance, but now I'm alert about hexbear
Lmao we do like the sentiment though
Welcome, friend! Poke around a bit, we have a bunch of cool folks around here.
I don't live in the US, but I have reached out to the circuit of communists, socialists, and vague "left leaning whatever" people in my country. We largely have public healthcare here and decent worker and consumer protections, but it's still capitalist and it's still shit.
(Australia btw)
Exactly most of the world... Capitalism is destroying the world in the name of the profit.
It's not free in Canada, which is always a fun thing to explain. A little over $100. Unless you're being transported between facilities, then it's free (to the patient).
It was $5000 for me and the ride was like 2 miles.
I was also unconscious and they maxed out my credit card and just left me in a hallway. Had to walk myself out. Then they billed me another $5000 for "diagnosis and saline"
It was a very rural hospital and the ambulance was privately run.
in canada or usa?
USA, deep Appalachia
Oh man what I would give for an ambulance to only cost $100
My brother in laws bill was nearly 300 bucks for the ambulance, and i'm still not sure how a 15 minute ride cost that much in 2005.
brag aboutit more!