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I kind of feel like this is punching down, when you look at the larger context of how fucked up health care is in the USA.
In the USA, it's only the money that ever counts. Patient care is bottom of the list. One of the first things you see in any hospital ER is that "friendly" person with the rolling computer cart who wants to make sure you have insurance and can pay right fucking now.
Not really exclusive to private healthcare systems. My grandpa only had his very obvious cancer seen by a doctor because of his wife, and so did my uncle. Financing the care was not a factor, they were both depressed and did not care too much for themselves.
If an old farmer says "it hurts a bit" then they're about to die and need an ER
My grandpa, still with us and thinking clearly at 90, grew up working the family farm. Got his hand caught in a combine mangled his hand. They of course had a 45 minute drive to the nearest surgeon, but it "wasn't that bad" until about 20 minutes into the drive.
Dude has outlived cancer, aggressive infections, smoking for 30 years, and the loss of his first wife. Probably the most resilient mofo I know.
Ah yes, farming equipment. The kind of machines thats almost made to mangle humans.
Did he get to keep the hand?
....and often enough operated by the biggest morons on the planet.
There's been an accident with a combine harvester a few weeks ago. A young guy had some blockage in the feeding screw of his harvester (I'm not sure if they have a specific name, but these interlocking, rotating drums at the end of a grain funnel). He tried to unblock it, by stepping onto the grain and poking the screw with a stick. That worked so well, it "sucked" him in and he now has two legs less.