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mirgro on 21 March 2010
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HappySqurriel said:
mirgro said:

Well I had a friend, long sotry short, she worked for a long time, divorce, crisis, she didn't have health care while she moved to a new place and was looking for a job. She had a problem with her shoulder, where she couldn't really move it past certain angles without serious pain. She couldn't even get an X-Ray done to know what was up until she found insurance of some sort.  I am sorry, but a system where you can't even get an X-Ray done is an outright broken system. Even in the broken economies of Eastern Europe I can go get an X-Ray done for about 20 USD.  Definitely doesn't go along with the "pursuit of happiness" idea.

From my (limited) understanding knowing many Canadians who have paid out of pocket for medical care in the US, there is very little you can't pay cash for in the American healthcare system; and an X-Ray and medical consultation would probably cost less than $500. While that is certainly not cheap, lack of insurance was certainly not the reason she couldn't get it.

She was most definitely unable to spare those $500 in the situation she was in for a while. She is most definitely the type of person who just sits around and does nothing, she had a weird thing that she felt she needed to do work and be useful to society.

Anyhow the point was that under the current system, a person can be perfectly honest and and willing to work and the system will still fuck them over. That is a definition of a broken system.

@msrstickball

She moved from the west to the east coast. Apparently it doesn't apply or something. I also think that even if it did it may not have been transfered since she had her insurance from her work.