• Zuberi 👀@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    There are no first world countries without fully paid public healthcare.

    So ironically, they’re also laughing from the 3rd world ;)

    • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
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      8 months ago

      I would like to note that my shitehole of a third world home country has public healthcare.

      It’s not excellent, far from it, it’s in fact very flawed: It’s underfunded, depending on the area you’ll be “queuing up” for your consultation for so long that you’ll either recover on your own or drop dead, and sometimes doctors have to push ghetto treatments because the real thing is too expensive, so if you have the option, you’d rather not.

      … But it exists, it genuinely saves lives, and also – In existing it also drives down the price of private healthcare, meaning that middle-class folks (like me!) can afford it without being sent over the poverty line.

      Crazy how that works. We’ve been Murica’s bitch for two centuries now, but life here still seems miles kilometers better than over there.