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“Medicare for All” would save the U.S $5.1 Trillion over 10 years Discussion/ Debate

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/30/easy-pay-something-costs-less-new-study-shows-medicare-all-would-save-us-51-trillion
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u/Pickle_ninja 13d ago

In America:

Person with a fever of 99.0F (37.2C): Get back to work.

Person with a fever of 100.0F (37.7C): Stay home take some cough syrup.

Person with a fever of 101.0F (38.3C): Stay home take some cough syrup.

Person with a fever of 102.0F (38.9C): Stay home take some cough syrup.

Person with a fever of 103.0F (39.44C): I'm going to try cooling down with a bath.

Person with a fever of 104.0F (40C): I think I should go to the hospital.

Person coming across a Person convulsing on the ground with a fever of 105.0F (40.55C): "OMG! CALL A $10,000 AMBULANCE!"

In Countries with Universal Health Care:

Person with a fever of 99.0F (37.2C): I'm going to see a doctor.

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u/Secret_Squire1 13d ago

American having lived in Europe and the UK.

No it’s more like having to wait several weeks to be seen by a GP to be told to go home and take Tylenol while resting. I had my foot run over by a car and was told the same thing.

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u/Temporary-Moments 13d ago

I’m an American living in America, I had my foot ran over by a car and I just took some Tylenol bc, come on, like I was really going to go to a doctor. An ER would charge something outrageous and most GP’s aren’t taking new patients or it takes weeks to get in. But not having insurance does help sometimes bc we pay cash the day of and doctors like that. Same when I broke my finger. It wasn’t life threatening so what’s the point.

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u/Nice-Cow-8827 12d ago

Are you really american if you prefer to a PCP as a "GP"? Nobody calls their primary care doc a GP, isn't that a british thing?

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u/Hashashiyyin 12d ago

It's likely regional, where I'm at people call them GPs or Family Doctors

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u/Temporary-Moments 12d ago

I really only hear them referred to PCP’s by insurance companies when they want you to pick one. I haven’t had health insurance in a handful of years so I’ll just find a GP or family doctor if I need to see a doctor.

But yes I am American. Virginian born, Texas and Tennessee raised.