How is the world near you? (Coronavirus)

Originally posted by miryclay:Good point about Universal Healthcare. It's easy to do when the scale is limited. It was born here in Canada in a place called Saskatchewan which has a communal ethos and is relatively small. It's harder to move that to a larger population.

I've always thought that in the US isn't incumbambant upon the people to support those without health insurance? Isn't it a great source of pride for those citizens who rally together for a loved one?

Is anyone atm being denied care during the pandemic because of lack of paperwork?

Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
In theory, they can't deny you testing or treatment for Covid-19. In theory that is, although people have been hit with $30,000 hospital bills for treatments. People with real emergencies still prefer to take an Uber to the hospitals because calling an ambulance can cost you $3,000 dollars. What kind of twisted system is that?
Also, most people have insurance through their employers, but now that unemployment has gone trough the roof, millions of Americans are again without any insurance. A visit to the emergency care can cost you thousands of dollars.
Just to give you an example, last year I had food poison with vomit and fever. I had to drive to the emergency care close to my home, only to be denied treatment because that clinic was not covered with my insurance. So I had to take my last ounce of energy to drive to the other side of the city, hoping that I didn't vomit on the way, and when everything was done, I got a $100 bill for just a simple pill they gave me, insurance included and everything.
Fortunately I don't have lupus, diabetes or any other major genetic disease.

Originally posted by LikeASong:Me and my workmates just learnt that we're being temporarily fired (temporary labour force lay-off adjustment plan or something like that) from the company I've been working with since 2016 so for the first time since... ever? I'm gonna be unemployed and with no occupation or studies. I might buy a piano and learn how to play it or something.

Originally posted by cesar_garza01:[..]
In theory, they can't deny you testing or treatment for Covid-19. In theory that is, although people have been hit with $30,000 hospital bills for treatments. People with real emergencies still prefer to take an Uber to the hospitals because calling an ambulance can cost you $3,000 dollars. What kind of twisted system is that?
Also, most people have insurance through their employers, but now that unemployment has gone trough the roof, millions of Americans are again without any insurance. A visit to the emergency care can cost you thousands of dollars.
Just to give you an example, last year I had food poison with vomit and fever. I had to drive to the emergency care close to my home, only to be denied treatment because that clinic was not covered with my insurance. So I had to take my last ounce of energy to drive to the other side of the city, hoping that I didn't vomit on the way, and when everything was done, I got a $100 bill for just a simple pill they gave me, insurance included and everything.
Fortunately I don't have lupus, diabetes or any other major genetic disease.

Originally posted by Pipo:Better healthcare system. We dutch have a insurance with coast at least €100-130 per month.
If you don’t pay it coast you the monthly payment plus 100 % fine. You don’t pay for the threatment.

Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:https://twitter.com/theneedledrop/status/1255271880115838976?s=21

Originally posted by cesar_garza01:There are now more than 59,000 (reported) COVID-19 deaths in the US (the actual number is higher than that). In 2 months, this already surpassed the deaths of US soldiers in the Vietnam war during 19 years (1956-1975). This is a real tragedy.