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True, but imo living in a broken and profit-maximising healthcare system should not serve as an excuse for permitting yourself to make shitty life choices. The situation op described would have been irresponsible wherever they lived.
We should all eat healthy within our means. We all should exercise as much as possible. We all should do our best to not get sick or injured in the first place - which imo includes not getting filleted by our friends.
Exactly. Personal accountability is important regardless of the system. Expecting a healthcare system to be a safety net for irresponsibility is madness.
No. We should have free health care for all. Period. None of that other stuff is relevant to our shitty health care system.
Definitely agreed (I'm from Germany though, so: outside perspective)
However, what I was pointing out is that we ourselves have to be our own advocates under any system. The original OP thing about only his wife dragging him in, this thread's OP about being cut with a knife... No doctor can do magic and no matter who pays them, they won't be able to keep anyone healthy if they sabotage themselves. It's super important to make good and responsible decisions about our health in our day-to-day lives. Don't drink, don't smoke, eat lots of whole foods and plants, move etc.
Just sounded like you were saying that even if we have universal health care that it won’t do any good because people will still do dumb stuff like this…
As if that were an excuse as to why USA has a medical bankruptcy health care system.