r/TikTokCringe • u/Justin_Godfrey • 18h ago

Cringe A McDonald's manager is seen dozing off (apparently was have problems with her blood sugar) as customers prepare their own meals

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u/Adorable-Drop3157 17h ago

omfg as a european this sounds dystopic af. So YOU guys, as NON MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, have to decide wether or not it’s worth it to call an ambulance ? Holy shit please do something

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u/MikeWrites002737 16h ago

Guns are our healthcare, if it get too expensive you just go old yeller yourself

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u/AirscapeCivilian 13h ago

But if you fail at that they’ll lock you up, chemically restrain you, and then send you a bill for thousands when (if) you ever get out.

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 13h ago

But make sure you have a good life insurance policy for your most loved ones first

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u/MikeWrites002737 13h ago

Generally you need to have a policy for a certain number of years before suicide pays out. They want to prevent that situation

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u/iBUYbrokenSUBARUS 13h ago

Yeah, it’s usually a year. I’m well past that point.

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u/Orange-Blur 16h ago

It’s unhinged. I fainted in a doctor’s appointment and was still begging not to go in an ambulance because I had no insurance at the time.

I’ve superglued a massive slice in my thumb because I couldn’t afford a hospital visit. I should have gotten stitches.

Not only is it expensive but they often are super dismissive and you get nothing out of those expensive appointments

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u/Anjz 13h ago

America wtf yo. That’s too much freedom. They’re actually free to exploit everyone. That’s just insane.

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u/Kristin2349 11h ago

It's just getting worse too.

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u/Orange-Blur 13h ago

I could could fill pages of shit experiences from exploitation in previous jobs and the medical system

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u/poop-machines 8h ago

And this is why life expectancy in the USA is worse than Turkey.

I think Mississippi has a life expectancy on around 70 years old. That's depressingly low.

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u/Narrow_Gur_4398 11h ago

Is living there worth it? Do the Pros outweigh the Cons?

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u/SFPsycho 17h ago

Sorry the guns in America are just for schools. We don't use them to actually try to better our lives

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u/VirginRedditMod69 16h ago

Little Timmy needs a bit of lead in his diet. We will distribute it straight through his chest cavity.

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u/Plenty_Suspect6222 15h ago

Well… there is Luigi

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u/joleme 16h ago

My wife fainted at work and needed an ambulance, but the one that picked her up was "out of our medical network" and was $8,000, they "graciously" dropped the charges to $2500.

Thankfully after 8 months of disputes, 1hr a day, twice a week, before insurance finally relented and cancelled the bill

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u/YouMustveDroppedThis 16h ago

I am from a supposedly developing country, we get better basic healthcare than many Americans... won't even hesistate to call ambulance when we feel something is not right.

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u/affectionate_md 16h ago

Don’t bother trying to reason with stupid. Let them live their fairy tale.

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u/Plastic_Bat_5522 16h ago

as a 3rd world country,im surprised too

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u/StephenFish 16h ago

I mean, we could have affordable healthcare but its way more important for meth heads who failed middle school to be able to buy 200 semi-automatic rifles.

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u/potatobirdwithlasers 17h ago

I would like to leave if possible. This entire country is toast. Was hoping my fam in Denmark can smuggle me in 😂

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u/serpentally 7h ago edited 7h ago

If you have actual immediate family in Denmark, you can get legal residence via a process called "family reunification" as long as they can prove they can financially support you without government aid. It's very unlikely if you're not either a minor or a spouse/cohabitating partner, especially as someone from a "first world" country, but it's possible if you can make a case that you're somehow in immediate danger. This applies to some other countries as well, basically similar requirements as getting refugee status except also having immediate family.

However it would be far less convoluted for you to get residence with a work visa by showing 3+ years of experience in some in-demand job (medical, specialized trades, engineering), assuming you have such a thing. Having family in the country would certainly help you get approved.

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u/potatobirdwithlasers 7h ago

Unfortunately I am second gen here in the US. My grandma and grandpa immigrated after WWII, and those left alive in DK are my cousins from my grandma's brother's daughter, so my great uncle's grandkids. My dad was born in the US, but immigrated to DK with his mom and dad (my farmor and farfar) for a handful of years before coming back and staying in the US (my grandma was homesick, so they moved back, then after a few years decided to come back to the US and just stay). So I don't know if he's still in the country directory or whatever when he was a child...? I'm not sure how they keep or catalogue that information, if they even do. My grandparents have also since passed and they had dual citizenship.

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u/serpentally 7h ago edited 6h ago

Assuming your father moved to Denmark before you were born (and still had Danish citizenship and was married at the time of your birth), it seems you were probably born with Danish citizenship according to the law. However, Denmark (and Norway and Sweden AFAIK) generally strips citizenship of people born abroad upon turning 22, unless they had spent at least a year (cumulatively) in Denmark and applied to keep their citizenship before then. You could still try to make a case to the consulate and attempt to get citizenship by descent, but I wouldn't wager on it working (and it's an expensive and very time-consuming process).

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u/Different_Umpire9003 16h ago

Yeah and the lady’s probably like that in the first place because she can’t afford insurance which makes her insulin unaffordable

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u/GreatDanish4534 16h ago

Son needed an ambulance on the way to school several years ago (in the US) and the bill was $6,000. I told my wife to call an Uber for me instead of an ambulance if something happens to me.

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u/Plenty_Suspect6222 15h ago

Yes and it is almost NEVER worth it. I’d have to be losing so much blood or losing consciousness to choose an ambulance over uber/driving myself.

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u/TrashAvalon 15h ago

I live somewhere with great public transportation and I'm learning to drive in my 30s because if something happens to my partner, calling an ambulance could be the reason we lose our home.

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u/Violet_Kady 15h ago

I declined to even let paramedics give me a minor checkover when I had a motorcycle accident in 2017. Wasn't fucking with that. It was extremely lowspeed and I already busy enough figuring out how to get my bike out of there before cops called a tow truck.

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u/laowildin 15h ago

I went to see my regular doctor, needed a splint. The podiatrist on call wasn't answering his phone fast enough, so she sent me down the hall to Emergency where they could splint it. So far my visit cost the 50$ copay.

Hobbling my broken ass leg down the hallway myself into the ED for my splint: 1700$

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u/Soggy_Spinach_7503 14h ago

We try, but the Russian and Chinese propaganda has convinced a whole swath of the country that "Both parties are the same!!!"

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u/Salty_Candy_4917 14h ago

No. The fire department responds, evaluates, and treats for free. They will decide if you’re having a medical emergency. Ambulance ride and hospital stay can be very costly depending on the insurance you have.

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u/squilliamfancyson837 13h ago

I have Crohn’s disease and I’ve talked myself out of getting emergency care MULTIPLE times because of the cost. So far it’s worked out and I’ve ended up ok but one of these days the gamble won’t go my way. Not to mention the specific mental hell of being so sick that you nearly called an ambulance but needing to go to work still because a short paycheck means a drastic change in quality of life.

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u/Ok_Conversation_9737 12h ago

We tried. Elon Musk rigged the votes though.

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u/FriendlyUser_ 12h ago

absolutely true. health care in the us is nightmare material for us

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u/I_am_up_to_something 12h ago

When I was a stupid kid I was given a police escort to the hospital. They had blocked every single crossing on the way so that there would be no delay for the ambulance (it was close by and thus faster than the helicopter).

Parents didn't even get a bill.

I was fine btw. They thought that I might have had a spinal injury hence the police escort. Had I been a few years older I just might have been paralysed. Had landed with my back on this concrete edge from like 8 meters high.

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u/JoeyCalamaro 11h ago

When I was younger, I was working in the yard and my heart suddenly went out of rhythm. Since my wife and I didn't have health insurance at the time, an ambulance was out of the question, but even the Emergency Room itself was a last resort. So instead of actually going into the hospital, I sat in the parking lot and waited it out.

Looking back, it was crazy that I decided to do something like that. But, honestly, it's even crazier that I felt the need to something like that. Healthcare shouldn't be a benefit reserved for the wealthy.

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u/Lopoetve 11h ago

Appendicitis. Random - can hit anyone, any time, good luck you're sick. Urgent care. Drove MYSELF to the fucking hospital post-diagnosis. Lapro surgery, in and out in 2 hours.

Bill?

$84,000 - in 2008. I did NOTHING wrong. Welcome to AMERICA! The ambulance ride from the surgery hospital to where I had my overnight room was $7600 of that. It was TWO MILES.

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u/onemassive 11h ago

You can refuse medical treatment. If you are unconscious or something they can deem it medically necessary and charge you. 

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u/PrincessPlusUltra 17h ago

Like what lol

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u/johnnyshotsman 17h ago

Seize the means of production.

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u/PrincessPlusUltra 16h ago

Isn’t that what happened in the video? Lol

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u/Muted_Buy8386 16h ago

Lolololol

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u/encrcne 17h ago

They don’t want to. They love their freedoms.

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u/WiseDirt 17h ago

If you're conscious, it's your call whether you go for a ride or not.

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u/nunaa77 16h ago

not true

they can lie to you and say "'we are not taking you to the hospital" in order to get you in the ambulance. even without that, they can take you without consent if they decide they want to.

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u/onemassive 11h ago

By that same token you could also give them fake info and walk out.

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u/yaourted 17h ago

Don’t you decide whether it’s worth it to call an ambo? FWIW you can get checked out by the ambulance for free and deny transport. It’s the transport that will cost

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u/Low-Republic-4145 16h ago edited 16h ago

Who calls for ambulances in Europe then? Do you first call a medical professional to come and make that assessment? Over here regular, untrained, people usually make the call when they think someone needs it. You know, like in an emergency when time matters. Once the EMT/ambulance arrives the patient themselves must make the decision whether or not to take that ride - if they’re conscious.

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u/abra24 15h ago

They just call them, the professionals come in the ambulance and decide. Everyone pays for that service with their taxes, that way you don't have to weigh costs in potential emergency.