Add india too to the denylist.
While it’s not single payer it appears to be hugely subsidized and largely free in India.
Since when is Lithuania a major country? And as I use voyager I got tricked by the screenshot xD
Nice! I didn’t even zoom in on the flags. Indeed. But I was flabbergasted by the coincidence of the one being right above the other. Strange days.
Take a W, brother
And I would walk 500 hundred miles and I would walk 500 more… to avoid ambulance cost
People starting the Camino de Santiago from Saint Jean Pier de Port sing this song too.
Screw that! Medicare costs money. I want mine covered by the taxes I already pay. Just cut out the wars and we’re good.
Just cut out the wars
did someone besmirch my precious money hole
Are you kidding me!? I love paying taxes for Medicare that I’ll never get, as well as premiums to for profit health insurance that rejects the tests that my dr wants. Oh and I love that I still have to pay even more out of pocket when I get some odd bill six months later.
Why on earth would anyone in their right mind want to give that up!?
Even countries with universal health insurance usually won’t cover helicopter rescue, you need travel insurance which covers mountaineering expeditions. Or you have to risk paying, it’s like 5k I’ve heard.
It’s free where I live in Squamish bc.
Brazil does it
Free in most provinces in Canada.
Air ambulance services are free in Italy if you call the 118 or 112 and it’s an emergency
Norway covers it. We regularly see news about foreign tourists who either take stupid risks and have to be airlifted down, or tourists who book a night at one of the mountain cabins and then trigger a whole red cross search party with two helicopters when they don’t show up. So to those who consider mountaineering in Norway: be responsible, plan ahead, make sure you can contact someone if you change plans midway. It’s public money going towards your search & rescue.
My girlfriend had to be air lifted by helicopter in New Zealand. They didn’t want our insurance details, because their local insurance covered us already. This was in 2010, so no idea of this would still apply.
My wife was air lifted via fixed wing aircraft. The 45 min. flight was $55,000. Insurance covered $11,000.
You had to pay $44,000 out of pocket for a single flight?!
Well, at least she wasn’t on Spirit Airlines.
In Germany it is covered as long as you are still in Germany.
Hell sometimes even the flight from another country back to Germany for surgery is covered.
Honestly… California pays a ton in rescuing stuck folks who got themselves into deadly situations… I’m really torn but I do think they have some responsibility in that.
People don’t think California be like it is but it do
For the record, if anyone is in a serious situation and needs rescue, SAR is free in the US. A medical helicopter, on the other hand, is not.
It depends. SAR in my state is coordinated by our Fish & Wildlife Department and staffed with volunteers.
They will bill you if they determine you willfully caused the situation leading to you having to be extracted.
SAR?
Search and rescue
Shitty clickbait! We will never know what happened to that poor hiker!
Well, he didn’t get to the hospital via helicopter!
He saved money and everyone clapped
Everyone clapped… until they didn’t get universal healthcare…
pretty sure i read that the guy is a nurse too… so what does that tell ya lol
I remember when my ex wife got her first LPN job on the way to her BSN. I thought for sure once she worked in a hospital it would have good insurance. It’s actually crazy how terrible the insurance is for medical employees. I had a way better plan available to me working for a ~100 person remodeling company, and it wasn’t a union gig either.
Knew how to walk ten miles while Impaled?
that he would still rather walk 10 miles than pay for an airlift (a nurse is very likely to have decent insurance as well)
And being a nurse had had seen so many people screwed by insane bills
part of the reason we’re in the mess we’re in with people being screwed by bills is that so many folk that either (1) didn’t know how to do their jobs or (2) would gladly accept money to do a job and then just not do it entered the nursing profession. fucked up the coding on that bill? nah, it’s not the practice’s problem to deal with the practice’s errors, it’s the patient’s!
I think we need more moths
Always wanting more moths, never planting more lamps. smh my head
China, the second most major country, also considers healthcare as a human right
That’s the slippery slope they were all worried about.
Can’t be havin no goddamned commie human rights
In Canada we have universal healthcare but also ambulance fees. The healthcare may be free, but getting to it isn’t.
It’s free if you’re on income support, otherwise it’s about $100.
Call a designated driver?
Sources about U.S. being the worst at health care in the world?
Source: Am American. Almost died from fucking gallstones.
Exactly.
I can’t believe this is the only comm that will not throw a hissy fit about this.
What the actual fuck are you talking about? This is fodder for all communities on this platform.
You sure pissed me off trying to hit the voting button, OP!
(Good shitpost)
You would have to provide sources, but I’d allow it.
