<story><title>The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU</title><url>https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/two-weeks-in-the-icu-as-a-baby-with-heart-disease</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_huayra_</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand how people can be so anti-universal healthcare in the US. When you have an $8k deductible, your insurance is basically a gift to the CEO&amp;#x27;s yacht fund.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cmrdporcupine</author><text>There are many problems with our Canadian system, it&amp;#x27;s certainly not perfect. And single payer is not the only way to approach this problem. But I&amp;#x27;m overall happy with its compromises in our system. Like any economic resource, it&amp;#x27;s rationed. But it&amp;#x27;s rationed, generally, on the basis of need. And that &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;from each according to their abilities to each according to their needs&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; philosophy may be the ideological curse on it that will prevent it from ever having adoption in the US with its virulent anti-communist past. It would never happen in Canada now, it was a product of the 1960s and early 70s and the way things were then. And it&amp;#x27;s consistently under threat from its ideological foes here, even if it&amp;#x27;s immensely popular among the Canadian public.&lt;p&gt;What boggles my mind about the US system is the blatant way it makes working people dependant on employment for health coverage. In a way it&amp;#x27;s a form of feudalism, tying people &lt;i&gt;physically&lt;/i&gt; to their employment.</text></comment>
<story><title>The cost of two weeks in an pediatric/infant ICU</title><url>https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/two-weeks-in-the-icu-as-a-baby-with-heart-disease</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_huayra_</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand how people can be so anti-universal healthcare in the US. When you have an $8k deductible, your insurance is basically a gift to the CEO&amp;#x27;s yacht fund.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>minikites</author><text>The people who are against universal healthcare usually pitch it as an argument for &amp;quot;choice&amp;quot;, as if I&amp;#x27;m going to compare prices when I have a ruptured appendix. It&amp;#x27;s also usually couched in anti-government sentiment, where they draw comparisons to &amp;quot;lines at the DMV&amp;quot;, as if other countries with universal healthcare have people dying while waiting in line for care, something that also doesn&amp;#x27;t happen.</text></comment>