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   Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 09:15:58 JST Patricia Aas

   I knew American healthcare was abysmal, but I was still shocked when I learned a few years ago that Americans pay for ambulance rides and giving birth.

   I know I should’ve realized.
   It just wasn’t in my realm of possibilities.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 09:15:57 JST Patricia Aas

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     I went to school in the US from 95-97 and while I was there I volunteered at an “AIDS hospice”. And the premise seemed to be that it was a place where folks went to die.

     Now remember I was a kid and Norwegian and clueless.

     Years later someone said that I was lying when I told them this. Because why would someone be dying of AIDS in 96? There had been drugs for years by then.

     So as an adult I realized that the people I had been caring for when I was a teenager were probably people who were dying of a treatable disease because they didn’t have healthcare.

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     Patricia Aas (patricia@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 09:16:40 JST Patricia Aas

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     And the depth of propaganda Americans live under astounds me because if you ask people on the street about if they should have universal healthcare a good bunch still say no.

     That is a level of Stockholm syndrome the Swedes would have zero tolerance for.

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