#socialize

[theycantalk]

spring

[behindheterochromiaeyes]

introverts be like

[faveyoutok]

[spibblememes-official]

Meme of the day #53

[sp7-mr]

[captainswagcollectionwombat]

A friend of mine has been living in Sweden for the past three years and yesterday she had a, non-emergent, procedure done.

Guess what she payed?

30 bucks. THIRTY BUCKS! Three zero dollares.

For the operation, anasthesia, IV- fluids, pre-op meds, five nurses and a surgeon. And about ten bucks for the post-op meds, prescribed for her to take at home.

She pays around 34,5% in income tax, as does the majority of people in Sweden.

And yeah, she had to wait a couple of months, because she didn’t want to take the option of beeing flown to another region, for free, to get the procedure done sooner. Like, a couple of days after it was decided the best course of action was to get infront of the problem, sooner.

And, she gets 80% of her salary for the two weeks she needs to stay home to recuperate!

And, get this, a colleague of hers that got diagnosed with breast cancer, had to pay a whopping, oh, 400 dollars? for a year of surgeries, chemo, and radiation. That includes weeks of hospitalizations and all the meds she had to take for, you know, everything. Whilst getting around 70% of her salary the whole time out on sick leave. FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS.

She also pays about 34,5% in income tax. By the way.

So tell me again how socialized healthcare doesn’t work.

Go ahead. I’ll wait.

[dk-thrive]

The more kinds of people you see, and the more things you do, and the more things that happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they’re not pleasant things. That’s living. Remember, no matter what happens, good or bad, it’s just so much”—he used the gambler’s term, unconsciously—“just so much velvet.

— Edna Ferber, So Big (e-artnow, August 25, 2019)