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In reply to the discussion: Poor Folks in the U.S. Can No Longer Afford Treatment for Pneumonia [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)McCamy Taylor
Horrible - just horrible....
Have been a nasty attack of phnumia myself 6-9 mounts ago - well I got Phnumia, kidney problems - and a attack of aridities to boot at the same time - I know how bad the body could be . I even ended up in a hospital for 3 weeks - as my kidneys was not to well - and my phnumia was rather serious - not just another bronchitis I have had a few times over the last couple of years... And if I was living in US, I would either be dead -or burden with debt I would never be able to pay back...
I'm not sure how much the hospital stay was cost me, but I would guess it was into the ten of thousands - but thankfully in the country where I live, we have something Universal Health Care - where you correctly assumed pay a higher tax base than in the US - but at least I was not going broke for getting life saving health care, both for my phnumia and for my kidney problems - who was rather serious - have been true no less than 3 operations so far to stabilize the whole thing - and now I'm off to another surgery next Wednesday to fix the problems once and for all (I'm not sure what it is called in english, but it is fairly routine operations compared to many other things - hopefully they will not cut me in two )
It is barbaric to deny poor people medicines they might need, if they get sick - because the medicines is to "expensive" for them - it should be outright criminal to deny any sick person their treatment - that be with medicines - or operation procedures - everyone who want to deny their right should be convicted on crimes against humanity - and put in a prison cell for the rest of their natural life - and that everyone on the cell block would know why they was in prison...
I think I told about my experience with universal health care too, I suspect it is amiable somewhere on DU..
Hopefully US wil also get univeral health care sometime down the road - but I guess it wil take many years and many dead pepole before that wil happend... Barbaric... Just Barbaric...
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