this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
931 points (99.4% liked)
memes
22098 readers
2823 users here now
Community rules
1. Be civil
No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour
2. No politics
This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world
3. No recent reposts
Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month
4. No bots
No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins
5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop
No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.
A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Sister communities
- !tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
- !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I live in Australia and suffered an A.V. malformation in my brain that burst one day in 2021. I was flown to a major hospital in the city for emergency brain surgery. I woke up again 1 week later with a bunch of tubes coming out of me and no idea where I was or how I got there. After they took the tubes out of me a few weeks later I found out I had to learn to walk again. I was released for out-patient care 3 months later, the whole thing cost me exactly $0.
America really screwed over it's own people.
My next door neighbour and close family friend (when I used to live in the states) had a freak accident and required a heart transplant.
The cost of the transplant surgery and all related medical expenses would have put his family into astronomical medical debt for the foreseeable future. He opted to just die and donate the rest of his organs instead of putting his entire family in debt forever.
He left behind a wife, a daughter, and a special needs grandchild who him and his wife were raising because their daughter had some drug problems.
-America
Remember when the Right used to say that if we had socialized medicine it would lead to "death boards". Well, guess what we have now ...
Already did then!
Every accusation a fascist makes is a confession.
It's crazy to me that needing a heart transplant doesn't make you eligible to enroll in Medicare but needing a kidney does.
The point is moot! Since the GOP is gutting medicare/medicaid anyway.
The debt would go with the person. A kid is not responsible for a parent's medical bill.
(At least that's my understanding)
They will still try to collect and hope you fall for it.
Yes, the good Ole corporate greed and ignorant humans not knowing thier rights.
It was a state with filial responsibility so he was concerned that his daughter would be held liable for the unpaid dues. This was in 2002.
TIL that's crazy. I wasn't aware of this term.
America is the disturbing confluence of Virginia colony's desire to make some money no matter the spiritual cost and the Massechussets colony's desire to control the spiritual life, no matter the cost in money.
But like, think how rich 10 guys get off that. They're so cool.
My routine colonoscopy was over $1000 and insurance covered alllll but $300.
I went to a Dr for the first time in 3 years to have my shoulder looked at. Spent about an hour at the place, and saw the Dr for maybe 5 minutes. I ended up getting prescribed maximum daily dose of acetaminophen, and some steroids (cheap garden variety). All in it cost me 167 dollars, which was within my deductible, so after a month, I finally got a bill for the full amount. The 200 bucks a month for my insurance and it didn't cover shit (my employer pays most of it, but my contribution is still like 240 dollars a year).
Health insurance in the US is a racket.
It's really fucked. Unless I am actively dying I will not go to the hospital. I barely cover rent. Weird new pain? Well hopefully it goes away and isn't a symptom of something worse...
Technically, if you ignore everything it does go away.
In America it costs about $20,000 to have a baby.
https://www.babylist.com/hello-baby/childbirth-without-insurance
Thats a rough average of with, without insurance, need a c section or not, etc.
Thats also about 1/3 of a median US yearly salary/wage.
Meanwhile, politicians seem to mostly have no idea why childbirth rates are going down, but they are also mostly sure that they hate immigrants.
Our country is a dumpster fire, please do not come here, you will regret it.
One of the terrible things is that they will bill you much more if you don't have insurance, or if you have insurance but they are not in your insurance "network" (which is basically your insurer acting like a union to negotiate prices down for it's members).
Yep, its convoluted and confusing as fuck.