It changes you saying that they made money, but I agree with your points nonetheless.

Advertising isn’t included in the budget numbers.

Your loss

Not even in my top 10

You you check out The Big Lebowski

It’s almost like casting directors see those features and think “that’s our brat”.

I still go to Google for image search unfortunately.

It could be. You would have to check with your instance’s rules/admins.

You can also check your profile settings. You may have accidentally selected to filter all content that is (designated as) nsfw.

Do you filter NSFW content?

I had major surgery and a payment method didn’t even cross my mind. I was seriously injured, we have free healthcare (with caveats), it was simply prudent to take care of it right away than let it fester and further tax the system.

…it is?

Nope, dental, eyes, and prescriptions, etc. are excluded 🤷‍♂️

Edit: which is admittedly still better than south of the border, but weak compared to east of the Atlantic

Well presumably everyone in Canada has good insurance.

Oh boy.

No.

The biggest grocery stores (oligopolies) are notorious for not giving employees 40h/wk specifically so they don’t need to include health benefits. And that’s just one example.

Edit: nearly half of. Canadians are living paycheque-to-paycheque

Are you European?

“I’m lucky enough to even have an above-average length chain”

If you knew the details it might not be as crazy as it sounds… probably not a million but many thousands I’m sure.

I’m sure it was awful and I don’t mean to demimish that in any way. But again, fundamentally no matter the details it’s not something I can truly fathom. No one of any status in my country would accrue millions in medical debt.

I’m Canadian, our healthcare is flawed in many ways and only looks good when compared to the states’. But even ours, with medications, eyes, dentistry, etc. being excluded from free healthcare, that’s ludicrous.

Again, not to invalidate what you’ve been through, but to reiterate: it didn’t all have to be that way.

Sorry, this is a sensitive subject and don’t mean to get intro it this much. I just want you and others to know this isn’t natural or even common

So many countries do it better than us. America has set the bar so low that even our middling efforts look amazing in comparison.

This is true for so many things

$1,000,000 of medical care.

That is something I can’t conceive of and I’m not alone.

Big numbers are sometimes big for no reason and elimantiong middlemen makes it go down.

Edit: I’m sorry you went through whatever it was regardless.

If we were discussing this on a different instance I could give you better options.

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