• deborah@awful.systems
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    5 months ago

    If it makes you feel better, it costs an average of $18,865 for an uninsured American to give birth to a healthy baby, and a tenth of the country is uninsured.

    I mean, it doesn’t make me feel better, because I live here. But you don’t, so YMMV. Or I suppose YKMV, in metric, because the US still uses imperial measurements for everything, because we’re too good for real numbers. USA! USA!

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        5 months ago

        Sorry, I’m American, I’ve forgotten how normal human empathy works. I’ve heard that in some places society isn’t entirely driven by spite but I think that’s a myth.