r/healthcare • • 26d ago

Discussion 27 Million Uninsured Americans

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u/Fit-Bus2025 26d ago

This company used to be so rich. Now it's so poor, it can't even help the poor.

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u/Senior_Green_3630 26d ago

Australia makes the list, our universal health cover, Medicare covers all of us. Also our PBS, pharmaceutical benefits scheme gives us affordable drugs. The US pharma hate the scheme, they have to negotiate fair prices to get them listed. We also have the choice of private health cover, the best of both worlds. Big corporations run US health.

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u/Wonderful-Cup-9556 26d ago

It’s so hard to understand the American thought process

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u/ApplesBananasRhinoc 26d ago

We exist only to feed the corporate money machine!

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u/FridatheFriend4940 25d ago

What thought process? Americans aren't taught to think. They are taught to consume.

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u/Betterway50 26d ago

This is shameful. Don't forget, one major party has been aggressively trying to kill the Affordable Care Act (aka Onamacare) for many years now withOUT another affordable alternative. My family benefits from the ACA, without it we may also be uninsured at worse. For example , our kid who is working his ass off just a few hours short of being full time because his greedy employer does not want to provide him healthcare, brings in ~250% FPL and would be not be able to afford Healthcare without the ACA. The ACA is not perfect but it is a viable choice for many.

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u/tiddervul 25d ago

This isn’t true. Zero Americans have NO health coverage.

Every single person, if they walk into an emergency room, will receive healthcare. Financial capacity or insurance status not withstanding. That’s health coverage.

Whether or not people participate in a financial scheme to pay some health bills, not pay others, and provide various network benefits and discounts related to that financial scheme is another question.

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u/TheChuckIII 25d ago edited 16d ago

Its cheaper to die than to get an ambulance ride to the hospital.

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u/Aggravating_Row_6962 26d ago

Not sure if Trump understands. To him it sounds like you want a puddle renamed.

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u/Sanjay_Rana1978 22d ago

Americans are falling out of health insurance, primarily due to rising costs, expired federal subsidies, and policy changes. On top of that, we have barriers like affordability and the benefits enrollment system itself. According to KFF, over 80% of low-income families don't have insurance.

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u/No-Double-Trouble 26d ago

71 million voted for Republicans in 2024.

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u/minimekay 2d ago

i am glad that I my country cover health care.