[heavyset_go]

> Healthcare costs are up, but you don’t have to worry about dying from a scraped knee.

As an American, you just need to worry about dying from incredibly common and treatable diseases like cancer, heart disease or diabetes due to lack of treatment. If you show up to an emergency room without insurance or ability to pay and expect chemo or a supply of insulin or blood pressure medication, you're out of luck.

My grandfather who fought in foxholes in South Pacific jungles didn't have to worry about dying from a scraped knee, either.

[nradov]

The US is at or near the top for cancer 5 year survival rates.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cancer-su...

[heavyset_go]

> The US is at or near the top for cancer 5 year survival rates.

That doesn't mean anything for someone with cancer and no health insurance. If they show up to a emergency room expecting top tier cancer treatment some people in the US can afford, they are not going to get it, while they would in other first world countries. This is what my post was addressing.

Ironically, cancer survival rates are almost the only metric[1] by which the US medical system outranks other nations. When it comes to quality of care, health outcomes, mortality rates, etc they are almost all universally worse in the US than other first world nations[1].

[1] https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...

[nashalo_nighly]

Which is mostly due to lead time bias and overdoagnosis.

[floren]

> My grandfather who fought in foxholes in South Pacific jungles didn't have to worry about dying from a scraped knee, either.

I mean he literally had to worry about dying of gangrene from a scraped knee in the tropics, but I get your drift.