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Re:GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ in Health System Showing Up... by fatbird on Sunday March 10, 2019 @12:14AM (#19350443)
Access to leading-edge potential treatments is a minor concern in health care: few need it, fewer qualify, and fewer are helped. Even then, your statement is false: leading edge medical research is carried out in all countries with universal health care.

The U.S. has an infant mortality rate worse than 43 other countries because large numbers of pregnant women can't access routine prenatal care. That's but one example of what real health care concerns are like.

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Re:GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ in Health System Showing Up... by ams6110 on Sunday March 10, 2019 @12:25AM (#19350481)
Can't access, or don't?

Medicaid will pay for prenatal care, and there are other options as well.

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Re:GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ in Health System Showing Up... by fatbird on Sunday March 10, 2019 @12:35AM (#19350521)
Can't. The U.S. has well documented problems with the working poor being unable to afford insurance or qualify for medicare; even if they qualify, medicare is not universally accepted (because it doesn't pay market rates) and there's no legal requirement for medical professionals to do so.
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Re:GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ in Health System Showing Up... by conanbatt on Sunday March 10, 2019 @01:11AM (#19350651)
Its a quote from the article.
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