🤔 you mean parents pay for pencil, right? #ClulessDirtyDon!
-- Retired teachers aide.
-- Alas, many parents send kids with just reqd 6 pencils on day 1. THEN P
* 50% of their anxious kids chew them to bits by day 3.
* Erasers by day 2.
-- Teachers must replace them from OWN $$!

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WOW! Good luck with that! I'd be buying pizzas for HELP! 😁

Literally no one in Europe says this.

You hit a nerve, rightly so. My bro, my "Irish twin", 10 mths younger, had acute myeloid leukemia. He was "lucky" enough to immediately qualify for SSI + his wife had GREAT primary medical coverage. Between both, my stem cell donor & his extraordinary med $ mostly covered. Then, COVID. RIP bro!

Appreciate your ? & respect that you care about this. But you need to research more. Study ALL aspects of successful universal health care systems in other countries. (MANY are hybrid systems.) You're right that it's not just about care. Also compensation, innovation, etc. Look at what works/doesn't

* MANY low- & mid-income families with multiple young kids & child tax credits get multiple $1K of refunds. So tax refunds > $$ they pay, AFTER insurance (co-pays, deductibles). That's REALITY!

I believe you have travelled and are therefore aware that almost every country has some form of universal healthcare, and it’s only the US determined to bankrupt people for the sin of getting sick or injured.

They're going to anyway. Steve Jobs bought himself to top of transplant list despite rules that SHOULD'VE stopped it