edit: sorry steve, I got mad. It's not your fault.

before Obamacare, when it was "still an Issue", somebody did the math, and you guys actually paid MORE in taxes for healthcare PER PERSON at that time than I did in Canada, and received nothing in return in terms of access or affordability.

Do you know what going to a doctor looks like for me if I'm sick? I go to a walk-in clinic, I present my health card, I wait, I see a doctor. If I'm sick enough, I get a script, or a referral to a specialist, or whatever.

No money changes hands, because I already paid for it in my taxes, just like you do - Except you don't have the same accessibility that I do. I was just down in OH, and the friend I was staying with was feeling ill. "Go to the doc", I said. "I don't have the money for that", He said.

That shit is FUCKED RIGHT UP. you guys live in a country that has incredible wealth not only in resources and money, but in people, and you can't even get your shit together enough to say "if somebody's sick, they should be able to see a doctor without worrying about next month's rent. If somebody's sick, they should be able to take a day off without fear of being fired via 'at will employment'." I mean, if someone is sick and on the job, that shit is a health and safety issue - that's how disease spreads, by some sick dude in a restaurant touching your flatware, which you touch, then touch your face, and then YOU get sick.

I have a lot of American friends, and i love them, but your country is so god damn fucked up and your collective consciousness is so broken that it actually makes me upset to think about. My country is not perfect, it is not "the greatest country in the world", it is not even close - but at least it feels like we're trying.