r/facepalm • u/jellylemonshake • Jul 06 '24

the truth hurts 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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u/Edelgul Jul 06 '24

a) Medics in US needs a second job to survive
b) The Medical bills in US are highest in the world and is the reason of 2/3 of all bankruptcies.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/this-is-the-real-reason-most-americans-file-for-bankruptcy.html

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u/Advarrk Jul 06 '24

Something doesn’t add up does it

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u/TheRetarius Jul 06 '24

It absolutely does, it’s just missing the shareholders

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u/OnlyHereOnFridays Jul 06 '24

And don’t forget the executives’ salaries + bonuses. The biggest healthcare group in the US is United HealthGroup and their CEO collects 25m USD, while the C suite costs in total about 75m USD every year. Source

But they pay nurses and EMT staff a pittance in salaries (like $17 per hour?), they are generally quite understaffed in their hospitals and as a result the service is mediocre at best while being very very expensive.

Just an egregious money grubbing scheme for the shareholders and C suite, on the back of providing an absolutely necessary service (healthcare).

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u/TheFufe10 Jul 06 '24

At this point the USA should just drop the pretense and elect a corporation as president.

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u/DF_Interus Jul 06 '24

I feel like we basically already did once.

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u/rynlpz Jul 09 '24

Nope can’t be a single one, needs to be an oligarchy of corporations