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The US healthcare system is barbaric... (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

The horror is in the fact that the system forces these kinds of choices on people. Any system that forces people to consider suicide to avoid bankrupting their loved ones due to medical cost is barbaric.