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Machiavellian on 02 August 2018
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Hiku said: 

From what I understand, at least in the countries I've lived in (Sweden, Australia, Japan) we have no shortage of high quality health care. My mom's doctor a few years back was one of the leading expert in research in his field in the world.

It's easier to accept that people may have been misinformed but have good intentions. What's not as easy to accept, although it is sadly a reality, is that there are people who simply do not empathize with other people who are not in their circle of family and friends, if it comes at their expense in any way.
Especially if they belong to a group they don't like. Such as poor people. There will be assumptions that they're poor because they're lazy, and they're sick because they just didn't take care of themselves.

But the moment it happens to them, and it hits them like a ton of bricks that even if you have a full time job, and even if you took every measure to take care of yourself, some times people are simply unlucky. And at that point, if their insurance doesn't cover what they need, then they realize what they couldn't when it was just about other people.
I've seen a few examples of this where people who  criticize Universal Healthcare as "theft" and that everyone should pay for themselves, make gofundme pages to fund their medical expenses some months later when they're the ones finding themselves in a situation
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You will see this happen a lot more once the pre condition mandate is removed.  Also the new cheap insurance that Trump is trying to peddle should be fun when people expecting those plans are going to cover then find out that it pretty much covers nothing.  As a person who has dealt with Insurance companies and getting the cadillac of coverage because getting turned down for a procedure and having to go bankrupt to pay the cost is never a happy adventure you want to go through.  I know way to many people who have gone through this issue but the ignorance in today's American is off the chart.

It's also interesting how many chemicals within US foods are allowed while in other countries they are banned.  I guess you can say this is what continue to feed in the US healthcare system.  Nothing like causing the problem and then making those very same people spend billions for you to fix it.