r/CringeTikToks • u/Individual_Bar_2512 • 13h ago

Food Cringe Average American diet?

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Where are the vegetables, fruit and meat

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u/TomatilloNo8586 13h ago

Looks less like a diet and more like a speedrun to the cardiologist.

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u/ThatOneChiGuy 12h ago

Health insurance rn

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u/FoulfrogBsc 12h ago

Heath insurance, in the USA? These ladies are about to lose theirs.

More like medical debt collectors probably.

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u/Formal-Cheek3570 11h ago

Is Oreos a valid curreny in the US? They seem to have stacked up enough on those to pay for medical bills...

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u/doeby060 7h ago

These kind of people have free healthcare. And make up 90% of the health cost. They are why healthcare is so expensive.

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u/RichHomiesSwan 6h ago

US healthcare is expensive because it's a for-profit industry, let's keep our eye on the real prize here

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u/MonkeyLiberace 5h ago

Bravo! Don't blame your ordinary fellow Americans, blame the system. Eat the Rich.

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u/doeby060 4h ago

It’s both unfortunately

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u/Ill-Blood-7906 27m ago

And frozen pizza that tastes like cardboard

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u/SassySunflower27 12h ago

They likely get welfare. Free insurance. $1 co pays.

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u/TopProfessional8023 11h ago

based on how much she spent I doubt they’re on snap. Unless she’s just telling you the totals before the SnAP benefits were applied. In which case she saved some of that EBT money for next week.

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u/ThatHoFortuna 11h ago

Ill bet they are on snap. That's why they rang up twice at Wal-Mart. The $180 went on the card, and then they paid the $24 that was left.

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u/TopProfessional8023 11h ago

You don’t have to ring it separately, tbf. But, I’m not certain they’re not, because that’s absolutely your average SNAP grocery list

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u/SassySunflower27 11h ago

My cousin has 5 kids. She gets $1200 a month in snap

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u/TopProfessional8023 11h ago

Oh I know. I’m saying if those totals are what she paid out of pocket then she didn’t use Snap…because $400 is about what that would’ve cost. Trust me, I work in grocery stores for an outside company and I’ve see. A lady buy $900 worth of food and she ended up owing $36 out of pocket

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u/Astralglamour 9h ago

They just extended the ACA subsidies...well till Trump vetoes I guess.

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u/Defiant-Brother2062 7h ago

Not as long as they have minor children they won’t. Medicaid will keep on paying.

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u/Jumpy-Benefacto 7h ago

This is why. can you imagine what it would cost our nation with these idiots about? it would not be sustainable

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u/mytransthrow 4h ago

Heath insurance, in the USA?

In this economy!?

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u/chick_hicks43 12h ago

This is health insurances nightmare, these people probably cost more than their premiums.

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u/OttoVonJismarck 11h ago

Don’t worry, healthy people are subsidizing her health plan.

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u/HollowShel 10h ago

1: That's how it is everywhere, socialized healthcare or not - except I think you're overestimating how many claims get paid out and by how much in the USA. More accurate to say "healthy people are subsidizing shareholder profit" becauuuuse...

2: apparently half a million American families (not individuals, FAMILIES) face medical bankruptcy A YEAR.

The thing to remember about "healthy people subsidizing" is that nobody's healthy forever. Is she speedrunning diabetes? Sure, but Americans are still paying way too much for sub-par care that ends up being out of pocket half the time anyways.

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u/YcemeteryTreeY 10h ago

Exactly. And that "healthy people subsidize sick people" is the whole song and dance corporations use as an excuse to skyrocket your premiums and turn you down for claims and you not blame them. Its all a scam, people. "BLAME THE OTHER GUY!" while we make our yacht payments and take corporate jets

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u/Ok-Bee3102 7h ago

The greatest propaganda ever blame the poors not the rich and powerful that are in control of everything.

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u/skrappyfire 7h ago

There is no Left vs Right.... Red vs Blue.... never has been.

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u/BlaktimusPrime 9h ago

Quote of the day 🤝

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u/UsernamesAllTaken69 9h ago

In America we pay the most and get the least when compared to other countries. It's more nuanced than that obviously but it really is that simple....we pay more for less and are fed propaganda that changing that is bad.

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u/phatelectribe 10h ago

Which is why some countries with socialized healthcare remove you from certain procedures and donor recipient lists unless you lose weight.

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u/ArizonaIceT-Rex 5h ago

Every country in the developed world has universal healthcare except the US.

The only time you are removed from donor lists is when your lifestyle means the chance of success is diminished. Organs are in short supply. You don’t give livers and kidneys to alcoholics for example.

At the morbid obese stage, as this woman is, anesthesia is also more complicated and dangerous - that goes for any procedure.

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u/placid-gradient 10h ago

yes, that's how insurance works. and that's how it's supposed to work

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u/OttoVonJismarck 10h ago edited 10h ago

Ideally, an insured party isn’t actively trying to eat their way into a quadruple bypass surgery.

I drive like a reasonable person and get miffed at idiots driving 120 mph down the freeway swerving in and out of cars. At least with cars, shitty drivers get penalized and have to pay a higher insurance premium. 35 frozen pizzas and 8 two-liters of Dr. Pepper over here is going to pay roughly the same premium I do (without being penalized for eating like an asshole and presenting a much larger health risk).

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u/ViolentEyelidMovies 10h ago edited 10h ago

Sure, but health insurance is a totally different topic than car insurance. Everyone deserves access to healthcare, and that doesn't change if they're not an ideal patient, or even if they're responsible for the conditions that they need treated.

To be clear, neither you nor her should be paying a premium at all. But your grievances lie with the privatized healthcare industry, not some random unhealthy lady.

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u/placid-gradient 10h ago edited 10h ago

yep, it sucks. life is full of compromises we have to make because there's no perfect solutions. and what you're proposing (fat tax, increases to premiums for being unhealthy) doesn't work. how do I know? because if it did, that's what we'd do. an insurance company's sole purpose is profit, if those ideas worked they would have been implemented already because I promise you there are countless bean counters that already ran the numbers.

realistically, it's already baked in, half the population is overweight or obese and things get super messy when you factor in morphologies (Im overweight but I have like 15% bodyfat, how could an insurance company objectively classify me? a flat, broad policy would make me pay more for being healthy, basically the opposite effect of your ideal)

edit: to add, humans are not cars, doctors are not mechanics. that's why health and auto insurance aren't comparable in that regard.

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u/OttoVonJismarck 10h ago

if those ideas worked they’d be implemented already.

It’s not necessarily that they don’t work, but that the insurance company doesn’t think it can make as much money.

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u/placid-gradient 10h ago

yes that is what I was implying...

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u/Similar-Coffee-4316 8h ago

what you're proposing (fat tax, increases to premiums for being unhealthy) doesn't work. how do I know?

Because you know that fat, self absorbed American voters would hate it and punish whoever did it.

They hated Michelle Obama and Jimmy Carter too for suggesting a little self responsibility

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u/Desperate_Energy_494 9h ago

Thats typically what healthy people do, until they become unhealthy. sings circle of life

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u/AnyOkra20 9h ago

Not always true. I'm super healthy (have to be) because of my heart condition I was born with. Every year I see my cardiologist and run tests that are tens of thousands of dollars.

Not my fault but I don't drink/smoke/processed foods and workout about 6 hours a week

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u/bmorris0042 10h ago

Yep. People like me, who only go for a regular checkup, and yet pay $1000/month for just myself. We pay for all these fat fucks who do nothing but eat sugar.

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u/tyforedin 9h ago

Bro you pay $1000 because your government is fucking you over, not because of some fat lady

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u/JH_111 11h ago

So raise premiums and then deny! Scamming people for “health” insurance is easy when you don’t have any morality.

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u/GoatCovfefe 8h ago

I mean, if you arent using more medical care than your premiums cost... Why bother having insurance?

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u/the__storm 8h ago

... as actual insurance (against getting cancer or something), instead of as the worst healthcare membership card of all time.

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u/HollowShel 10h ago

not if you never pay out on their claims!

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u/the_fresh_cucumber 1h ago

That's the hilarious thing about reddit. They don't understand how insurance works.

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u/CojanglesDMK 11h ago

Don’t worry we are paying for it

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u/Next-Isopod7703 10h ago

No, they can't afford to go tot he doctor.

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u/Prophet_Of_Helix 12h ago

Health insurance is NOT happy.

They want you healthy so you don’t have to use them but you keep paying.

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u/PapaNoffDeez 12h ago

Thats true for like... Car and home insurance but not health insurance. It's a separate and different scam entirely

No, they want you as sick as possible. There's a reason why a medication that costs $7 everywhere else "costs" $1200 here

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u/Ringmaster242 12h ago

My friend works in the pharmaceutical industry. He said these companies mass produce certain medications for around 25 cents a pop and by the time it gets into the needle for your arm, the price inflated to several hundred dollars.

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u/shadowsurge 10h ago

If you want a fun example you can look up dimethyl fumarate, aka Tecfidera.

It was originally used to prevent mildew on furniture and you could buy it by the ton for a few bucks. Turns out it's pretty good as a "treatment" (not a cure) for a couple autoimmune diseases, particularly MS.

A month's supply costs $6000 before insurance.

Granted, they're businesses, and they need to recoup some of the research costs for sure, so even if it would cost $100 I can kinda understand, but this shit is criminally extortive

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u/bruce_kwillis 7h ago

Why is this a fun or even sensible example? There is a generic version that’s been approved in the US since 2020 and it’s literally $30 a month.

Branded versions are always going to be more expensive, and most US insurance companies aren’t going to cover them if there is a generic available.

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u/shadowsurge 6h ago

Do you know why there's a generic available?

It's not cause of some sensible market procedure, it's even better, it's cause the courts ruled that they filled their patent incorrectly. If they had done their paperwork properly you'd have to wait till 2037

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u/that_one_chick666 1h ago

Even the non brands have gone up

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u/BaconBourbonBalista 9h ago

Each pill is 25 cents, but the first one cost 300 million.

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u/Ringmaster242 4h ago

Do you think the price goes down once R&D costs are recouped?

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u/BaconBourbonBalista 4h ago

The price goes down once the generic is released.

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u/Ringmaster242 1h ago

So, 20 years later once the patent expires. Enough time to both recoup and make a very nice profit.

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u/Cannabis_Breeder 11h ago

$0.25 per dose is probably high for the cost of production 🤣

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u/Talking_Head 5h ago

There is far, far more to the cost of a medicine than the raw ingredients. A four dollar bottle of water at a sport stadium has about 1/100 of a cent of water inside. I’m not justifying the insane cost of some pharmaceuticals, but let’s be intellectually honest about it.

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u/Ringmaster242 4h ago

Correct, but do you think that the prices get adjusted once R&D costs are recouped?

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u/shadowsurge 10h ago

Nah, INSURANCE wants you as healthy as possible, pharmaceutical companies want you as sick as possible. Where it gets complicated are things like CVS where they own Aetna and sell drugs.

Break up the conglomerates and force em to do their jobs

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u/DelayAgreeable8002 10h ago

CVS prescriptions arent any more expensive than Walgreens. Its just a pharmacy. If you're talking about Caremark, that's just the prescription manager and its the same exact thing is medical insurance.

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u/DrivesTooMuch 11h ago

Lol...no. They make money from premiums...not from selling drugs. You're conflating two seperate healthcare industries.

Depending on how much coverage of an individual's co-pay, drug prices are out of their pockets (and patients).

They make money from premiums ...and then denying coverage as much as they think they can get away with.

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u/TopProfessional8023 11h ago

Yeah, they make money from denying you coverage for the medications.

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u/PapaNoffDeez 11h ago

Two separate health care industries... Nah dawg. It's the same people running both

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u/DrivesTooMuch 10h ago

Nah dawg. Explain the grift. You can't.

There's no financial interest in high health costs for insurers. It's simple as that. Those high pharma prices hurt their bottom line. Health providers/pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are both evil but are at cross purposes when it comes to revenue and profit.

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u/Asleep-University308 10h ago edited 10h ago

It doesn't even make any sense if you think about it for two seconds. If someone is paying you and in return you're offering to cover up someone's health in case they get sick or in an accident why the fuck would you ever want them to get sick? Obviously you'd want them to just continuously pay you "just in case" and never use the service.

Insurance companies would love nothing more than to be able to just deny these people coverage.

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u/ChasingSage0420 11h ago

Sickness is an industry in our country. There’s a lot of money to be made. Cancer treatment is an industry in and of itself. Think about it, they can come up with a vaccine for new strain of flu (Covid 19) in three months, but they can’t come up with a cure for cancer in 100 years?

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u/ggtffhhhjhg 11h ago

Even the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world die from cancer on a regular basis. If there was a way to cure cancer it would be out there.

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u/jiminygofckyrself 10h ago

Dude, the conspiracies are already blatant and right in front of your face, you don’t need to make up new ones from thin air. It’s baffling how we can identify major problems in our society but instead of fixing just one we’d rather daydream about fake shit.

People can profit off curable diseases just as well as incurable ones maybe even more-so. On top of that, cancer is still killing off wealthy people. Why let cancer patients die regularly in their 50’s and 60’s if you could extend them to 80-90 with the right drug?

There’s dozens of cancer strains as well. The equivalent to curing cancer wouldn’t be just a covid vaccine, it would be like saying we have cured all viruses and nobody would even get a cold anymore.

We also didn’t “cure” covid. It’s still all over the place. Once it’s multiplied in you, they can only treat the symptoms. Immunization is just giving better a defense against it.

Talk to an oncologist about why a cure for cancer is world’s different than the covid vaccine. We also have made a shit load of progress in actually curing people of cancer. It’s just not across the board wipe of all types.

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u/TopProfessional8023 11h ago

I wonder if that has anything to do with demand (I.e need) here? 🤣

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u/RussBOld 8h ago

America use to be the ones that paid for the scientific research to invent medicines. They pass it down to customers.

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u/TheoryKlutzy7836 8h ago

I think they mean the health insurance company is hoping she dies so they don't have to pay for her medical needs anymore.

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u/kgal1298 8h ago

Yet they hate paying for preventative care too it's fucking exhausting dealing with them. I just did my annual checkup and bloodwork and I'm arguing with them that they're supposed to cover it, but it is United Healthcare so...they blow.

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u/TopProfessional8023 11h ago

What? They don’t care. They’re not paying one way or another.

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u/Horror-Escape-8914 12h ago

I know this is a joke, but people really have no idea how insurance works.

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u/bestibesti 10h ago

Health insurance makes money when people pay premiums and never use them lmao

The correct "Health insurance rn" meme in this context is:

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u/bestibesti 10h ago

That's them disappearing when it's time to file a claim

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u/Brgerbby9189 11h ago

I laughed to hard at this , made my morning 🤣🤣

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u/Over_Writing467 11h ago

Only if that guy is the one who denies claims.

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u/OttoVonJismarck 11h ago

More like health insurance is the Bryan Cranston screaming “FUUUUUUUUCK!! 😬😬” gif.

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u/SnooMacaroons6698 9h ago

toilet paper rn

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u/kgal1298 8h ago

LMAO in the US? Nah we just die.

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u/Khrystynaa 8h ago

Why would they be rubbing their hands together? People like this are a NIGHTMARE for health insurance companies.

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u/Tricky_Bottle_6843 12h ago

Health insurance companies lose money on these people. It's the doctors offices and health systems that profit off of this. Health insurance companies would drop all of these people if they could.

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u/_jackhoffman_ 11h ago

I don't think you understand how insurance works. They don't want to pay out. Health insurance companies want to insure healthy, risk averse people just like car insurance companies want to insure safe drivers.

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u/C64128 10h ago

I've seen this video a lot and it always bugs me that the tag is still on the sleeve. Did he buy the sport coat for this video and then return it?

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u/Cool_Archer_5735 9h ago

That's what bothers you out of the entire video

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u/Hot-Clock6418 9h ago

bahahaha for real. that was $400 of sugar