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Re:The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER... by jodrellblank on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @06:15PM (#22551390)
40 million Americans don't have healthcare[1], and another 38 million have "inadequate" health care[2]. Together that's more than the entire population of the UK.

It's not so impressive that if you only treat the richest with the best jobs who can afford the best treatments, you get better outcomes than systems which treat everyone.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/16/americans-without-health-ins...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/uninsured.html

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Re:The Cost of Not Getting Tested for Coronavirus: A $10K ER... by nojvek on Thursday March 12, 2020 @01:11AM (#22553977)
I’m one of the people without healthcare and everyday I pray for my family, “I hope we stay in good health and don’t have to see a doctor or the hospital, one small thing and we’re likely to be bankrupt”
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