Becky Lynn Paige ‘Parents Divorce Due to Medical Debt’ Tweet In May 2022, an old purported Twitter screenshot was shared to Imgur about a woman's parents divorcing after 52 years to avoid medical debt.
‘My Wife Has Cancer’ Reddit Comment Spreads Virally, Prompts Discussion of American Healthcare System A screenshot of a months-old Reddit comment about the cost of cancer care spread across social media platforms.
Did Joe Biden Say He Would Veto a ‘Medicare for All’ Bill? Criticism swirled around the Democratic presidential candidate after an interview on MSNBC.
Angelika Greg-Delany #WalkAway Campaign: ‘I Came From the Soviet Socialist Part of the Ukraine, I Barely Survived’ A viral post made to the "#WalkAway Campaign" group on January 7 2020 conflates socialism and communism in a purported firsthand account from a failing USSR.
500,000 Americans Will Go Bankrupt This Year from Medical Bills? A Facebook post claims that half a million Americans "will go bankrupt this year" due to medical bills, and they didn't "blow their money at a casino in Las Vegas."
Did a Study Find U.S. Healthcare Costs More Than Four Times as Much as Canadian Single-Payer? Widely shared articles claimed that Americans pay much more on average for health services as their Canadian neighbors do under their single-payer system.
‘Medicare for All? How Are We Gonna Pay for That? With THIS Money’ Post Costs for "Medicare for All" vary, but almost all estimates were lower than 2018 spending for health care in the United States at $3.6 trillion.
Does the UK’s National Health Service Cost £10 a Month vs $2,500 For American Insurance? On February 20 2019 the Facebook page “Medicare for All” shared a following meme contrasting the purported costs of health care coverage in the United States versus the United Kingdom (and alleging that Americans prefer their system): The meme showed a screenshot of a Tumblr user commenting on a screenshot of a tweet. The first user […]
