yo my friend, you americans are one of the people i admire the most, as a brazilian it something that bugs me that we have "free" healthcare (we pay it through the shitton of taxes, but it's kinda of free indeed) while you americans don't. A lot of public money to stupid nasa and no public healthcare
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Brazil has publicly funded healthcare _too_?!
*facepalm* Your country isn't even among the G-7 & y'all still have a better safety net for your citizenry than we have for ours...oy vey.
As I said to someone else on here, there is broad support for such a system in the US (even though it usually isn't uttered out loud) but...*sigh* There were efforts to draft & pass a "socialized medicine" bill into law, more than once. That was during the Clinton years. Finally the Affordable Care Act was passed when Obama was prez, but all it did was organize & somewhat regulate the HMOs & PPOs here. If you don't know, those are the medical insurance firms that cover medical expenses--for those who can afford to pay the premiums. Until the ACA was passed there were millions of uninsured in the US who went without. We still have 'em today, just not quite as many.
The only complaints I've heard from people in places with public healthcare (like Canada & the UK) is that it's often difficult to get an appointment in a reasonable timeframe when you try to schedule one. But hey, in our "privatized" (corporatized) system we have the same problem. I recently picked a new general physician, & got an appointment to meet with her for records, familiarization, etc. The earliest one I could get is TWO MONTHS from the day I called.
@ShadenLines yo, here in brazil the public healthcare is called SUS (Sistema Único de Saúde, by which translates to something like "Unique Health System"). It's either very good or very bad, they either save your life or kill you in a phimosis removal surgery (like happened to a boy few months ago), since i live in one of the best cities here in brazil it's good for me, i have heard some messed up stories specially from poor places but i also know people had their life saved by SUS.
The appointments usually take a long time indeed, they only will take a look at my baldness on august and i did order it back in april or may. But sometimes you're lucky and they find a general practitioner for you next week (like it did last time i got it)
For me it's always been good, i have had private healthcare before, it's better, and it's faster than the public one indeed, but the public one isn't bad for me. So i say public healthcare is good and it would be great if brazil government wasn't so corrupt
I hate to talk about USA how i would talk about brazil (specially cuz i don't live there, never even went there), but i think it's a shame you americans don't have a public healthcare while here in brazil an underdeveloped country with way less money we have and it actually works good for many people. It would work there at least better than it does here in brazil
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I've been worse, more than once... 'Preciate the thought, though. For the next couple weeks or so, I will only do things that can be done while sitting down...as much as possible. (You can't be a desk pilot when you live a rural life)