118 Times American Healthcare System Shocked The Rest Of The World

To be fair...no one's ever needed to say it out loud

awesome shirt though, i would totally hug this cutie

Ahahah as sad as your US reality is, this sounds like a great plan! Also Spain is quite lovely!

Now I'm curious, what is the average billl for a childbirth in a hospital in USA?

Because their constitution is outdated. The second amendment made sense when America didn't had an army to defend their country against foreign aggressors, in this case, the British. In some states it was mandatory to have gun, because there was no army...now it's a nonsense, in my opinion.

That's nice. You haven't free healthcare system, you haven't, a real and full-paid 20-30 days holiday (evey year) at work. What else?

Well, to be fair, people cook meth to pay for OTHER things, too

Imagine...

Here in Finland every citizen have health insurace because it is paid from the taxes. And because of that insurance also the poor people can afford healthcare. It is funny to see when some Finnish people complain that a prescription drug is 'too expensive' if it costs over 30 euros per month when in USA the exactly same drug is usually 3 to 10 times more expensive.

only time i paid for doctor in my life it was 4 euro for dental cleaning. i'm 32. born in lithuania, working in czech republic.

You're first in infant deaths too. "About 11,300 newborns die within 24 hours of their birth in the U.S. each year, 50 percent more first-day deaths than all other industrialized countries combined, the report's authors stated" http://www.cbsnews.com/…/us-has-highest-first-day-infant-m…/ Also 54th in the world (that's close to bottom of countries in the developed world) for number of deaths per 1000 of live-born babies that don't make it to their first birthday. (5.8 per 1000 live births in 2017). The figures are from the CIA so I think you can believe them. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html. Now wouldn't you just think the country with the best healthcare facilities and the biggest spend per capita on healthcare would come in at No1 not a lamentable 54th. What's the CDC and FDA doing about it? Nothing that I can discern.

maybe that's what Trump means with: America first ;-)

I'm Australian. I have a chronic medical condition for which I have to get blood tests every few months, have to see a specialist a few times a year and have a procedure once every couple of years. I also have to see my doctor every few months for a script. It costs me nothing. I only have to pay for my medication. If I need an ambulance to take me to hospital, it's free. I would be bankrupt or very ill if I lived in the US!

This is so wrong it goes to show you how greedy the hospitals, pharmacuetical companies and health insures are they put PROFIT BEFORE PEOPLE.

I will never understand some Americans who will not embrace a national health system. they call them selves christians and yet they don't want poor people to get free health care. They a bunch of hypocrites and omit the fact that christ healed the sick and raised the dead without asking for money. Also many of these so called christians also believe in god and not science, but you can bet your last dollar if they get ill they don't pray to get better they go to the doctors/hospital (which has uses science to heal them chemistry, human biology etc).

That is a damn disgrace! The prices here for health care are way out of whack. Nowhere else is it so costly to have to go to the dr. or have diagnostic testing done. I paid for someone in The Gambia to go to the hospital when he was very sick. They did bloodwork, x-rays and a bunch of other tests and it cost me around $100. He even got medicine & recovered. Here, you couldn't get any of those tests done for that price. This is what happens when gov't is under the control of the medical association & drug companies. They don't care about us, they just want to profit from our miseries & misfortunes. There isn't enough money to be made by 'curing' diseases. They would rather we just keep taking their drugs, which cause other problems and lead to the prescribing of other drugs. My friend from The Gambia says that people in his country that are diagnosed with diabetes go to a local herbalist to be cured! Now, if this 3rd world country can do this, why can't we? GREED kills!

but ya hav to pey taxeess *bites hamburguer*

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Here in denmark health care is also payed through taxes, and that’s part of the reason it was voted the happiest country a couple of years ago!

This isn't even remotely true. People in countries with free healthcare can easily go bankrupt due to countless other medical costs that are not included in the government plans, such as prescription drugs, medical devices, etc. The grass is always greener on the other side.

we also subsidise many drugs that go to other countries . So they pay pennies, we pay $$$ for the same meds in the US

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people in poland dying because universal health means two years wait time for cardiac related treatment: metric shitton. meanwhile, bum gets his drunk a*s put together for free in ER. Yay, so just....not.

I love the T-shirts!

Completely true.

And yet Amercians make fun of Canada

Hahaha this is so dark. Love it!

Or they get no tips to add to their pathetic wages as waiter? :-/

Source of actual story?

You forgot, "you shouldn't have had children if you can't afford them!"

I'm most impressed by the fact that Germany started theirs in the middle of freakin' World War II

Come on, now! Who WOULDN'T pay 4 grand for a kiss from that cutie?

This is so sad man.

...What time is it now?

so sad that this is true... :(

Come on, now... "If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears, does it make a sound" is sooo 2016

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Serious question to citizens of USA, do you really believe your nation is the greatest? And if so why? This isn't a dig or anything but most of us in the rest of the world really don't see why. I would like to understand.

Why does this not have any comments this was one of the few that actually made me lol

Dystopia is definitely the right word. It's a sick society that makes people choose between paying and dying.

And you didn't even have a discount coupon. Spendthrift!

HELLO people, the picture is meant to be dry humour, but its gone whoooosh way over some heads here.

I love Cyanide and Happiness

This is so true and also applies to our federal government. The ridiculous prices they'll pay for a chair, a stapler or whoknowswhat is appalling