This Team USA Athlete Is Going Viral for Documenting Her Free Healthcare at the Olympic Village

[hewontgo]

This Team USA Athlete Is Going Viral for Documenting Her Free Healthcare at the Olympic Village https://t.co/46RYIBmq3M
- People (@people) August 10, 2024
After winning a bronze medal at the Paris Summer Olympics for women’s rugby sevens, Ariana Ramsey stuck around in Paris to take in the sights, watch other athletes compete in events - and also

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[mhfromnh]

gonna try to make it into curling just for the healthcare

[sandstorm]

Or breaking. I mean if Jaywalk can writhe around and go then.

[hewontgo]

This was the first and last time that 'breaking' was at the Olympics

[notoriousreign]

lol nice good for her!

[kamikashi]

the healthcare.

and then just the difference between countries who financially support their athletes, actually invest in them vs having to create gofundmes to fund their way into the olympics. imagine how many more medals usa could have if they gave the snoop dogg funding to their lesser known athletes?

[ty]

And you get people like Snoop who do NOT need to make $500k per day to channel some of it back to fund the next batch of Olympians. I judge this crazy rich people too.

[kamikashi]

snoop really did not need half a mil per day paycheck. i get that hes a ratings draw, but whoever at nbc is bad at negotiating. like im sure he still woulda done it for half the amount (which would still be insanely egregious) cuz he gets to have fun and do shit normal ppl or even other athletes would not be able to experience at the olympics.

[lamppost1911]

I recently saw a (US) woman on social media go to Turkey for a full health check up and the whole trip and everything was less than if she did it in the US but when I did my homework I read mixed reviews. An in-law is from Turkey and is visiting next month so I’ll prob grill him about it lol.

[therearewords]

There's this ancient story going around on the internet about an American that flew to Spain, got surgery, had a two week holiday before returning and all of it still cheaper than the same surgery in the USA.

[lamppost1911]

I believe it. Not that you asked, but for me, I’d be all about dental work. I take care of my teeth (dentists even say as much then make me feel guilty when I have cavities???) but I need sooooo much work done and part of me is tempted to get a quote overseas and just get it all done.

I will never forget when I was a kid and visited family in Poland we had to take my sister to the emergency room and kid me is worrying about how much it’ll cost and the stress my dad would have to deal with and it was LITERALLY nothing. Not that she had to have surgery or anything but just getting stitches in a US hospital can put someone out.

[theylezharold]

I'm looking at France for dental care

[pciam]

I'm in the US as well; a good friend of mine had very extensive back surgery back in December for his severe scoliosis. He had a steel rod implanted. The back surgery, and all related medical costs associated with it have averaged $600K (over a half million dollars!) thus far. He is very privileged in that his insurance has covered a great portion of it given he works for a large company that offers good benefits - but those medical costs are INSANE to me!

And I just think of ALL the people who may need something like that who DON'T have insurance, or decent insurance without very high deductibles.

[mikochin]

That is crazy. Here (Sweden), that surgery would cost about 30 dollars and prescription meds needed would be free for the rest of the year after you've passed about 200 dollars.

[pciam]

I believe the $600K includes both the surgery and other associated medical things (like follow up physical therapy sessions--he just hit his 55th! PT session this week, medications, at home equipment he needs, etc. etc.) in totality thus far - but still - it's just so astronomical.

[mikochin]

I'm not surprised, but that's horrific!