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ceejayoztoday at 12:05 AM1 replyview on HN

Australia is very close behind the US in obesity and illicit drug use.

Side note: I'm an Australian citizen, living in the States.

An Australian hospital doesn't need a billing/collections department and the docs don't sit on appeals calls with insurance; when my wife broke her foot visiting, they basically didn't know how to bill her (for surgery and three days in a ward!). My son needed a badly ingrown toenail treated on a separate visit there last year; they just treated it and sent us on our way, no charge, despite his being a tourist.


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tt24today at 12:14 AM

I didn’t say obesity, I said unhealthy eating. Those aren’t the same thing.

I straight up don’t believe the drug use one, we have way more fentalyl deaths than you and it’s not even close.

You didn’t address crime. We have much more of it. More gun ownership and gun usage as well.

I’m not quite sure what this anecdote has to do with my comment.

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