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Palatal Prolapse and Velumount
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RE: Palatal Prolapse and Velumount
When it works it works. But if you´re going to compare the two then you should also mention young couple without good health insurance since they are just out of school whos child was borned a few weeks premature and now they are in debt for the rest of their lives. (an example)

Or the people who do have health insurance and a proper job but where the deductibles are higher than a simple worker can manage. Or that there are many things or costs that the insurance wont cover or only partially cover.

Or like here, i feel for those americans who have to adhere to "compliance" to even keep their machine. What about insomnia, periods of illness, events in life that gives a strech of poor sleep etc. And just knowing that you MUST comply with a made up figure in a made up time or else you will loose your machine, i mean what the hell is that? Everyone is on their own journey of how they tolerate the treatment and how long it takes getting used to it.

American healthcare works just like government funded healthcare = lots of ppl pay a small amount so a few can use that amount for healthcare. Its the gamble on that the money paid in is more then the money taken out. This is true for the american insurance driven, for profit healthcare system and for the ones like me (swede) that pay pretty much nothing but the cost is coverd by parts of my standard tax. The big difference is that america introduced a useless entity; the insurance company, that doesent add anything of value and whos only reason to exist is to take part of the money going to healthcare and giving it to their shareholders.

Some americans say they dont want universal healthcare because "they dont wanna pay for someone else". So they stay on their insurance based healthcare that is LITERALLY PAYING FOR SOMEONE ELSES HEALTHCARE. Sorry my mind is just blown by people like that, and ive met a few on my travels to america, seen them in the media etc.

Summed up american healthcare is pretty much the best in the world IF you are rich or have a very good health insurance and plenty of money for deductibles, things not coverd etc. If not it can and will ruin lives, physically, mentally or financially.

The only good thing about the american  system is that everyone in it is incentivised to increase the cost, take more tests, more medicine, see more doctors, more and more and more so squeeze out every ounce of profit. This leads to very comprehensive healthcare but also very expensive.

On the other hand systems like in Canada or Sweden are the opposite. Chase costs wherever you can. Take less tests, do less surgeries, have longer queues for accessing healthcare.

A balance between the two would be nice.
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