[georgemcbay]

> As a European, I genuinely struggle to understand how you cope with your healthcare situation.

As an American, most Americans don't realize how bad it is because everything seems fine when you are insured and only need basic care. The huge problems aren't immediately apparent until you suddenly get diagnosed with something serious and become a cost center for your private insurer instead of pure profit for them. At that point they realize how fucked they are and how much the insurance company will fight tooth and nail to deny care.

Everyone else tries to ignore how fucked those people are out of superstitious belief that maybe they too will fall into the Unfortunate Situation group if they think about it too much.