[testing22321]

It continues to baffle me that Americans put up with such an inferior and expensive system.

There’s always talk of freedoms and being brave and being the best country in the world to live in, but very, very little effort of action to improve anything.

The French riot in the streets if a single day of their extremely generous (by US standards) leave is taken away. Meanwhile Americand can’t get off the couch to protest, or are afraid of their own government if they do.

[Lyngbakr]

To be fair, the French riot in the streets when one of their teams win the Champions League[0]. I'm not sure it's a good metric.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r2ejg1w9xo

[t0mpr1c3]

Eagles fans riot when they win the super bowl (2022, 2025) and also when they lose the super bowl (2023).

The issue is not that Americans are insufficiently violent.

[nozzlegear]

There are plenty of American protests happening all the time (see the ICE protests for a recent, well-known example). Americans aren't lazy about protesting, they just have a different understanding of merits protesting. Like it or not (I don't), a right to quality healthcare isn't one of the freedoms in our constitution or bill of rights, and therefore isn't going to get people turning out to protest.

[an0malous]

Our country is captured by the top 1% of wealthy donors who are making a killing off the healthcare industry. Americans as a population aren’t putting up with anything, they just have no control. A citizen shot a healthcare executive in the street a couple years ago, that’s what people are resorting to now.

[airstrike]

Correction: Americans as a population have been led to believe they have no control. They've forgotten what "we the people" means

[testing22321]

> Americans as a population aren’t putting up with anything, they just have no control

So do something to get control.

Americans have been conned that they live in the greatest country and that nothing needs to improve. And now you say they have no control.

They are the workers. A six month general strike would literally change everything about the entire country, forever. They just lack the will.

[francisofascii]

> that Americans put up with such an inferior and expensive system

I agree but what is the alternative? Not buying health insurance? Moving to a different country? Please don't say voting (That has solved nothing.)

[t0mpr1c3]

I forget who said it, but Obamacare is a Big Fucking Deal.

The number of Americans with no health insurance dropped by more than 4 million between 2020 and 2024.

[protocolture]

>There’s always talk of freedoms and being brave and being the best country in the world to live in, but very, very little effort of action to improve anything.

Its all just talk.