| In the EU, free (at point of use) healthcare is available to all residents, including the unemployed. In several countries, you can get free treatment immediately even if you are not a resident. That's a lot different from the USA, where tens of thousands of people die from lack of health insurance, and probably hundreds of thousands are bankrupted by the healthcare they get. A quarter or more Americans put off seeking medical treatment because of the cost. By the time they seek treatment, it may be too late. I'm reminded of a carpenter who won $1 million and said he could finally go to see a doctor. He died a few weeks later from cancer. A lot of Americans are one accident or illness away from financial ruin and poverty. For all their problems, Europeans are a lot better off than this. More than 26 000 Americans die each year because of lack of health insurance
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323087/ New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/09/new-study-fin... The Americans dying because they can't afford medical care
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/07/americans-he... More Americans Delaying Medical Treatment Due to Cost
https://news.gallup.com/poll/269138/americans-delaying-medic... Medical Bankruptcy: Still Common Despite the Affordable Care Act
https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.3049... Medical Bankruptcy Is Killing The American Middle Class
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/medical-bankruptcy-killing-a... New York carpenter who won $1 million lottery prize dies of stage-4 cancer weeks later
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/02/lottery... N.Y. man dies from cancer 3 weeks after winning $1M lottery
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-... |