r/SipsTea • u/DapperDusk • Aug 22 '26

WTF Damn

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u/ares7 Aug 22 '26

I don’t know the qualify of health care in other countries. But how did you come to that decision?

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u/TheEndOfAllThings23 Aug 22 '26

Cousins who live in Ireland. My family came over during the famine and kept close ties to our family who did stay. The hospitals over there are just as good as the USA some even better.

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u/piper33245 Aug 22 '26

My father in law from Ireland, who is a heart surgeon in America, flew his mother to the states and paid out of pocket for her heart surgery because he didn’t trust the hospitals in Ireland to do it.

So to each their own I guess.

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u/Urmomhaspooped Aug 22 '26

Eh, depends on the procedure and specialty. The 5th largest hospital in the US is in AL at the University of Alabama Birmingham. It’s state of the art for organ transplants and nationally ranked for many programs.

I get what you are saying though, generally. If you’d have picked Mississippi it would be an easier sell 😉

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u/hisyojomaku Aug 22 '26

Mississippi is Alabama's favorite state for making us look better by comparison

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u/jplayz7 Aug 22 '26

Mississippi and Oklahoma make Alabama look like goddamn Versailles

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u/Scavgraphics Aug 22 '26

And yet some of the best doctors specializing in sports related injuries are in Birmingham, AL...so...

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u/ConfessSomeMeow Aug 23 '26

guaranteed endless supply work opportunities.

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u/Virtual-Book1114 Aug 22 '26

I think we have the best surgeons and highly technical procedures. The problem is the aftercare.

One of the reasons some of the wealthiest fly here for the trickiest and cutting edge treatments. But you have worse outcomes for everything else.

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u/Himorningwood Aug 22 '26

Not really brother.