Health Care in the USA

[stormdog]

Even though I finally have health coverage via the state Medicaid program, there's only one dental clinic local to me that can see me, and their first available new patient enrollment is June 4th. Meanwhile, someone very dear to me who has no options for affordable dental care at all is buying antibiotics intended for use in aquariums to treat her abscessed tooth.

I have to wait five months to see a dentist, and she has to take fish pills. God-damned fish pills. For fucking fish.

Tell me again how my country has the best health care system in the world?

I'm not feeling tremendously angry about this right now, as I have been off and on. Just resigned. It boggles my mind that there are people who think this status quo is fine and dandy.