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[-] FReddit@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

I have cancer and diabetes, and aside from the premiums insurance costs me a minimum of $4,250 every fucking year, plus stuff they refuse to cover.

And I found out the hard way that you're better off dead than getting air medivacced, a delightful experience I've had twice.

The first time I told the ER head to just let me die. The cost of a hundred mile flight was over $80,000.

The second time, this February was over $143,000, but by then I had gotten air transport insurance. Which of course initially denied the claim.

In the U.S. you are just meat that is harvested for money.

[-] protput@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

For that kind of money I would start a new life in a normal country and have decent healthcare.

[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Back when I was on reddit I had seen few people who had left america for other countries mainly in the Europe region because america is a shithole

[-] name_NULL111653@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm seriously considering it when I finish university. I love the idea of freedom etc, but the reality of such a system is hell on earth.

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