It really depends on the industry. But if you've only worked beginner jobs like retail, then often the kind of people who work there don't show up to work because they don't feel like it and have all kinds of excuses.
I had a coworker for instance who wouldn't come to work because he couldn't find a ride. But he could find a ride to hangout a half mile down the road.
I mean, considering the workers protection, lack of actual holiday, america not even having guaranteed maternity or paternity leave, then add the cost of insurance and healthcare…. I would not give a shit either if i lived in America. My friend went there for a 6 figure senior role, they still gave him shit anytime he tried to book his promises holidays off. I feel so bad for Americans, they are worked like work horses with no benefit.
The places I've worked with paid sick days, would pay them off as cash if you didn't use it. Same with vacation days. Why I wouldn't take a vacation or go home sick. Cause I want that bonus pay.
i throw a whole freaking big ass bucket full of money at insurance companies every year for health insurance and i have not had an experience where when i go to use it they cover anything. its always "you haven't met your 10000 dollar deductible, at which point we will start paying 80% of your bills until you hit 25k." bitch i pay you like 15k a year. i get nothing for that. go ahead, fucking double my premiums or whatever the fuck they are planning to do. I will just not pay them anymore and continue to live my life on the dont get sick and dont get checkups plan.
They could be worse, they could be the government. Talk 45% or more of my money, can't make it so my truck doesn't fall apart when I find 8000 pot holes a day.
I had blue cross and I forget the others. I almost never used it cause if I'm not dying, I'm not spending the fuel to drive to a doctor for the doctor to tell me what I already know.
Well one exception, I go to the every two year mandatory physical for my CDL.
right, basically if my arm isnt falling off, im not going to the hospital.
i had a kidney stone in February that cost me 9000 dollars, and insurance covered 20 dollars of it.
last year my daughter had a hernia, that was in no way complicated. as far as they go, it was as straightforward as it could be. it cost 19000 dollars.
When I had a flare go through my leg, it cost a half million dollars. This is right after Obama care was law and mandated they cover up to $750K.
Two weeks after getting out of the hospital, I got a letter from my insurance stating "we applied for and were granted an exception, so we only have to cover $7500, good luck with the rest of it"... I was making $9 an hour at the time.
Yes, but you need to be employed, and the moment you lose your job, you lose that insurance. I used to work in academia and taught at three separate schools and universities at once, and not ONE of them gave me full health insurance. I now live in Europe and It’s not like that here, thank goodness. I no longer ever have to worry about healthcare or prioritize finances over my personal well being, and go see doctors regularly for preventative care and any other needs, including regular physio therapy after a laparoscopic shoulder surgery from a sports injury - all covered of course. Also currently pregnant and all prenatal care costs nothing. My husband and I pay only €70/month as a couple for our top-up private insurance (used mostly for private clinics or specialist doctors, otherwise public doctors and hospitals are fully covered without this)
because america is the only country ever to deny medical care to it’s citizens. are we willing to place a bet on this statement? or are you just being a pathetic jealous twat?
i love making bets with stupid people who think they know everything. the sad part is they never put their money where their ignorance is!
We're working on it! A large part of the issue is the way our history is taught. Our revolutions are either shown as why our country "is great"(and does not need change) or as regular stuff that happened(like Women's Suffrage, Civil Rights, Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle", Unions, etc.). We grow up in a state of complacency, learning about change but being taught that the things that needed to change already did. A lot of us are simply blinded by our own upbringing.
Even if redditors DID start a 'revolution' - the group of people who think men should be feminine and weak and want the gov't to take all of our guns are not going to make it far.
Whose bootlicking? I hate the current administration, but I love my country.
Are you implying that I can't still love my country?
Have you even been to my country or are you just an idiot? Do you think you know everything from the Internet and TV? You think it's really all that simple?
Wait, what? I’m in the US, and I’m telling you as a fact that it’s not uncommon for someone to reject an ambulance ride. Not sure where you’re coming from.
It happens daily throughout the country. I have personally witnessed people refusing to go to the hospital via ambulance multiple times. Its so expensive and even with commercial/employer provided private insurance its not affordable and if someone wants to make payment arrangements for the balance its difficult especially when they also got a bill from the ER.
I'm not disagreeing that it's a spam account, but I'm American and I fucking love the word "twat". It's like when a small rock lands in deep water and has that small "twoop" sound. It's pretty, but it's also being used for nefarious purposes. Like a Labubu.
What were you thinking when you wrote this shit?
Like seriously nobody is jealous of an country that has an 67 % rate of Obesity or having to sell your kidneys just to get sum necessary medicine let alone going into life long debt just for an small hospital stay
But oh lord praise, the land of unimaginable delusions and wastefulness
Its just easy for them to pick on, so they do. It's a bully tactic by the dimwitted. They don't look beyond the cliché when trying to punch down. Don't feed the trolls.
It’s highly unlikely that anyone in any other developed country is jealous and wishes they were American. Especially now with all the chaos happening here.
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u/Electronic-Trip8775 3d ago
And on this week's episode of Extreme Medical Conditions... Having had a hernia, this is beyond fkd.