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Or a weird lump checked out.
Oh, that's simple. The root canal they'll handle by going to the ER, getting antibiotics, and not getting the tooth taken care of until it has to be extracted completely (or just breaks off at the gum line, and taking antibiotics way too often for it)
The broken leg they'll get done at the er, too.
In both cases it'll lead to debt they likely will ignore, because what the fuck else can they do?
But the lump? That one they'll just ignore. It isn't actively painful, and there's nothing they can do for it, anyway. So they'll just die young.
Money isn't the root of all evil... But is damn sure the tool of evil.
Love of money, as in greed, is the root of all evil.
People managed in the past without healthcare. A lot of them died younger as a result, but you can still live your life without it I guess.
Suffering and dying young isn't "living your life", it's suffering and dying young. They suffered through horrible illnesses, lived in pain because they had to and had dozens of children to make sure some of them reach adulthood rather healthily.
In the US I'd have already died more than once, and if not would be either homeless with crippling debt or criminal to pay not just for the cancer treatment years ago. Instead today, after injuring myself working on my hobby, I went to a doctor to get a tetanus booster (just in case) because I forgot to do it earlier. For free. On a sunday. As someone currently unemployed.
That's the way it fucking should be. I'm so fed up with people relativizing unnecessary suffering, including living in existential fear of illness.
You can't live your life without healthcare if you die young. What are you even trying to say here?
You live your life up until the point you don't
People have managed without oxygen before. I mean, you'll die in a few minutes as a result, but you can still live your life without it.