Comment by shreyshnaccount

Going off the topic a bit- I was recently listening to an American podcast and it was talking about a single mother who worked multiple jobs finally getting a good full time job who said that they would visit the doctor even though they aren't sick "just because they can", and this made me, a non American, tear up. how could people in the developed world, even poor people, not have access to healthcare, when even our government with a fraction of the US govt budget provides free basic Healthcare and people are generally able to see doctors.. seems like a very strange thing right? has the word "developed" lost all meaning? or is the US not a developed country anymore?