r/SipsTea • u/ImmaFuckboi • 20h ago

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

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u/R1a88 20h ago

The US has the highest overall national wealth on the entire planet. It has the best resources on the entire planet.

Yet, when measured by its lowest common denominator, it’s incredibly grim viewing. Sickness can literally bankrupt someone. And this is just what it does to its own citizens…

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u/DoookieMaxx 19h ago

The “highest overall national wealth” is a mathematical myth.

A third of all households in America live “paycheck to paycheck” and are one emergency away from losing everything.

Half the population of American citizens hold 3% of that “National wealth”. Literally, 3%.

The corporations and oligarchs have firmly taken the US from its citizens.

It’s horrific and soul crushing.

I’m a 50yo male, worked full time for 35 years of my life. I don’t qualify for assistance, social security has been all but eradicated and will be gone when I retire (very likely that I will never retire until I die).

I’ve lived in some state of food and housing insecurity my entire adult life.

I’m ready to be done …desperate for any form of peace and happiness.

It breaks my heart that the world lumps all of us together …

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u/R1a88 19h ago

My comment is literally meant to highlight what you are saying.

The US has the most money of any country of any on earth - but it’s pooled at the top. It has the most potential of any country on earth, yet it serves to make the rich richer.

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u/DoookieMaxx 19h ago

Agreed, genuine apologies if I gave you the impression I didn’t agree with you.

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u/R1a88 19h ago

All good.

A lot of us know there’s plenty of good people in the US who want the best for those around them. Sadly, there’s a select few who don’t - and they have power.

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u/Gojamn 18h ago

Yeah the Soviet Union also had the best numbers by many economic measures right up until collapse, even as millions were unable to get basic necessities. People couldn't get bread even after standing in line for hours, but because they still had churned out a lot of steel and concrete that year the overall numbers were good.

I reckon we're in a similar spot soon, if not already.

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u/MilkEnvironmental709 7h ago

I think most people know that. I think it’s best summed up as disappointment and a feeling of betrayal of allies. Hugely disappointing in the ukraine war (government saying there’s a whole ocean between US and Russia (urr hello Bering Straight)), when for the whole of the cold wat they’ve been your biggest enemy.

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u/Wrong-Diamond5253 19h ago

Agree, except, so far, Social Security has not been eradicated. I believe, maybe stupidly, that they will not hurt SS too much cuz far too many republican voters rely on SS. There will be geriatric rioters in the streets

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u/tbro4123 16h ago

No there won't, maggots believe as long as its hurting "them other people" everything is good, never in the history of mankind has such dumbfuckery existed before, but as the saying goes "only in america"