health care costs in the US are insane. y'all need to take a rusty pickaxe, some gasoline and a match to the entire system
when I got my appendix out in Canada years back it cost me $1 CAD, for the diet coke my dad bought me at the vending machine. yes I paid taxes that helped supplement that 'free' surgery but nothing unreasonable, just part of the cost of living in a society where getting sick doesn't leave one destitute
even when I had a rather significant surgery in an emerg trip to Jamaica back in 2016 (way before I moved here) it cost me about 5k USD out of pocket I think. Including the emerg air transport from Turks and Caicos. there I did have some insurance, but that only covered about 3k extra. so around 8k total to save my life if I'm recalling those numbers correctly
from what I've read US health care costs can vary dramatically without insurance, but chances are if I was in the US I'd be still paying off one or both of those bills
in Belize, check-ups and doc visits in my village were free. got stitched up there after I bashed my head on some rocks in a huge wave and the only thing I paid was a tip to the doc who sewed me up to put towards buying the scrip drugs they handed out for free to those who needed them
still though, I think some people are using an individual tragedy to score a cheap political point
no doubt the debt and cost of health care was a stressor, but is that why he did what he did?
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Originally Posted by Dead Eye
These people are genetically feable
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in an article about this it mentions that his wife was dealing with a range of ailments, one of which was dementia. an awful condition in the later stages that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy if I had one
it's a nightmare that only just gets worse. my beloved MIL has it to the point that most days she doesn't even recognize me or confuses me with her youngest sister who died decades ago. she remembers her sons occasionally, on a good day. other days she just stares at the wall talking incomprehensibly or worse, is afraid of us. my boy and his bro and I handle her care and each time we visit her we sob like fucking babies after. it never gets normal, it never gets easier
for that alone, I kinda get why he did what he did. I don't think it was the right thing to do, but I understand it. from what I read theirs was a loving, life long partnership and I can't even fathom what it would feel like to stand helpless, watching your partner slip away is such a horrible way
your health 'care' system is objectively fucked up. highly doubt money was the main issue here is all I'm saying