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the-library-alcove: j0skik: dasseinhundin: masochist-incarnate: valendeln: ksylofonimandariini: vulturesinvividcolor: theinturnetexplorer: what a deal. And then your hip would break because their medical staff is garage and they don’t have the same regulations as over so no you’re back to square one you fucking tool that is american propaganda used to justify their lack of a working healthcare system. it’s not true and even if it was what good would having slightly better healthcare do if it’s only accessible by the richest members of society? You absolute fucking clown. Lmao Damn. Spains healthcare sure isnt garage like they said God Americans are so fucking brainwashed like seriously imagine thinking a first world country in Europe of all places is medically inferior, the patriot brain rot is strong I emigrated to Germany in 2017 to marry my spouse, who is a German national. In October of 2018, I had my left hand fixed for carpel tunnel, which was a problem I had been managing for over a decade, unable to afford to have it treated in the US. I started having abdominal pain a few days later–sharp, painful bouts of agony that lasted for six hours, and thought that I was having a reaction to the pain meds. So I was given a different prescription. Pain continued; every couple of days to a week, I would have a bout of agony that left me doubled over in bed for six hours. But I just toughed it out, like a real uninsured American would. After a few weeks of this, my spouse said that I was going to the doctor, and took me to my primary physician, who saw me immediately, no waiting. And told my spouse to rush me to the hospital. That was the morning of Thursday, November 22, 2018. By early afternoon, I had a diagnosis. Gallstones. By late afternoon, they’d done an endoscopy. Saturday, I had the operation to have the gallbladder out. I was home by Wednesday, having had five macadamia-nut-sized gallstones removed. In the US, in my old city’s major hospital, it would have cost $14,000+ for the operation, because it would have qualified as a “pre-existing condition”. Here, it cost 200 euro. And I was apparently a week or two from the gallbladder–which was infected, and the source of the pain episodes–bursting. So if I was still in the US and trying to “tough it out”, I would have died. In agony. For want of a routine operation. If you’re British, you don’t pay at all…Well, National Insurance contributions go towards funding the NHS, but this is taken directly from your pay & covers everybody’s needs. -- source link