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I recently saw a documentary about a couple who deliberately tried to live on minimum wage jobs. They both got minimum wage jobs and moved into a cheap apartment and lived that way for a month.
The most striking aspect of it for me was when one of them injured themselves and had to make use of the emergency department in a hospital...
Made me damn glad I live in a country with a National Health Service. Two people working every hour they could and spending virtually nothing on themselves and yet medical treatment broke their bank.
Surely the citizens of the wealthiest nation on earth deserve better? I know you all have this thing about not wanting your tax dollars paying for someone else's lives, but do you really see nothing wrong with a working poor who are so disadvantaged as to be unable to afford basic medical treatment?
I know you have some provision ( medicaid?) but y'know it clearly isn't enough to ensure adequate medical treatment to all your citizens.
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