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The mayor says that it’s because the nearest hospital is 45 km away, but a full 16% of the US population, or roughly 55 million people, live further than that from a hospital (https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/hospital-deserts/index.html).
US healthcare really needs to stop looking like a third-world country.
Well, that’d require us to stop being a 3rd world country. GDP aside more than 1 in 10 Americans live in relative poverty.
There are few effective social programs and a very authoritarian power structure even before the incoming clusterfuck.
The US is absolutely not a third world country. Now, a developing country . . .
Italy’s population density is twice that of the US.
Rural hospitals have been getting shut down for years now due to it not being a great money maker, it’s the same reason rural Americans wouldn’t have to their door mail access without it being included in the Constitution.
Even without taking population density into account, access is only going to get worse when hospitals keep shuttering.
“This is not just a provocation, the ordinance is a cry for help, a way to shine a spotlight on an unacceptable situation,” Mr Torchia told local news outlet Corriere della Calabria.
Do even English people say “I’ve fallen sick”? Sounds so dramatic.
…and I can’t get up!
Call an ambulance!
In this economy???
Life alert is a life saver! I wouldn’t be here without life alert.
“I’ve fallen ill” is a common expression in the UK. “Fallen sick” would be a little unusual
Down with the sickness.
Some cultures even use the phrase “fallen pregnant”.
People taking vitamins and vaccines when you can just ban illness! Novel approach.
Vitamins don’t do anything for health unless you are vitamin deficient.
Sure they do. They harm your health if used in excess.
Unless you’re going absolutely insane with them you’ll typically just pee them out.
Not vitamin D.
“Take two spoonfuls 🤌 of Extra Virgin Olive Oil 👋 with your daily lasagna. 👐You’ll be right as rain.👌”
Many great doctors, the best healers, say to inject Tide Pods, many have said it, it’s true, it washes and cleans the blood right up.
