alt Hacker NewsIt continues to baffle me that Americans put up with such an inferior and expensive system.
There’s always talk of freedoms and being brave and being the best country in the world to live in, but very, very little effort of action to improve anything.
The French riot in the streets if a single day of their extremely generous (by US standards) leave is taken away. Meanwhile Americand can’t get off the couch to protest, or are afraid of their own government if they do.
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To be fair, the French riot in the streets when one of their teams win the Champions League[0]. I'm not sure it's a good metric.
Our country is captured by the top 1% of wealthy donors who are making a killing off the healthcare industry. Americans as a population aren’t putting up with anything, they just have no control. A citizen shot a healthcare executive in the street a couple years ago, that’s what people are resorting to now.
>There’s always talk of freedoms and being brave and being the best country in the world to live in, but very, very little effort of action to improve anything.
Its all just talk.
There are plenty of American protests happening all the time (see the ICE protests for a recent, well-known example). Americans aren't lazy about protesting, they just have a different understanding of merits protesting. Like it or not (I don't), a right to quality healthcare isn't one of the freedoms in our constitution or bill of rights, and therefore isn't going to get people turning out to protest.