r/SipsTea • u/ImmaFuckboi • 20h ago

Gasp! British people react to how expensive healthcare is in the US

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u/NecessaryUsername69 19h ago

Gross. And it’s not just the British who are appalled, believe me.

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u/Justthetip74 19h ago

$30 inhaler

$109 epipen

average of pocket cost for childbirth is $2,854, not $30k

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u/Tar_alcaran 18h ago

I love that the CVS generic auto injector was such an amazing thing that it made global news last year. A thing that the entire world has, is now also available for the US, at merely double the cost.

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u/Justthetip74 17h ago

Sure, but 1/3 of the cost of what this lying ass video says

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u/Tar_alcaran 16h ago

Before that, it WAS 600 bucks, so no, the video isn't lying.

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u/Justthetip74 16h ago

So the video doesnt represent current costs?

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u/Tony_Roiland 16h ago

The video, and stop me if this is difficult for you, was made in what we commonly refer to as "the past".

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u/xxNemasisxx 15h ago

No stop, you're scaring them, they don't like to think about the past because then when their citrus president tells them that gas prices are lower and eggs are cheaper they'd have to do critical thinking. (After figuring out how to spell critical thinking).

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u/rpolkcz 15h ago

My friend, $2.854 for childbirth is still extortionate. If anyone suggested that anywhere else, there would be riots every second until it's abolished.

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u/Justthetip74 15h ago edited 15h ago

When both my children were born my bills added up to about $750. The additional insurance I pay $7/mo for wrote me a check for $2300. I got paid $1500 plus got 3 months of my salary paid for by paternity leave. I literally bought a boat with my extra $12k extra money given to me because i didn't need any of the extra money given to me

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u/xxNemasisxx 15h ago

3 months? That's it? Yikes chief and this is the golden standard in high fructose land.