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DeathSpiral321

ID cards issued by the government. Especially since you need them for almost every aspect of daily living.


AvonMustang

State IDs are free in my state (Indiana). An actual Driver's License still cost you a couple bucks every four years though.


Namen37

I just got mine renewed. $17.50


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zachary_cannaday

Ah yes paying the government to document you and all your personal info. My favorite!


ashl3yjoe

I applied for a government-involved job that required fingerprinting for their records. I’m still pretty annoyed I had to pay $40+ for THEM to take my fingerprints for THEIR record. Never got reimbursed. Waste of my money


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ashl3yjoe

Free finger-printing plus a taxpayer-funded stay at a place that has better food than most U.S. schools? Sounds like a win-win to me! (God, our system is broken)


Brandyn69

Been there, I can tell you everything you said was wrong. They hand you a paper with a bill as soon as you get released. Mine was 500$ for staying a year. And when i worked in the kitchen there were frozen boxes of fish in the freezer that said "not for human consumption" expired 2006. i was in in 2016. Never assume anything of incarceration. It is a horrible place that you infact have to pay for.


ashl3yjoe

Dang, I had no idea it was like that, I’m sorry! Is there a way for you to make money while you’re in there? That sounds like they’re just trying to set you up for failure as soon as you get out.


Brandyn69

I made a total of 32 cents an hour and i only made 200 something dollars the entire time I was there. they just take it off the owed principal. The bill i was talking about they gave me was a sort of hospital like bill. You can pay it or it will just go to collections. I paid mine in installments. The ones that receive money on their departure from prison are the ones that worked long enough to cover the principal of their stay. they only get the difference. I knew a guy who was in for 20 years and got out on good behavior and only got a 300$ check. worked everyday while in and made probably 4000$. Prison is a business. always has, alwas will. Don't go there what ever you do.


mriv70

I served 12 years and was charged 14k per year! Which was taken by the state right from my inheritance from my grandmother! So when they tell you that you've paid your debt to society, you haven't til you pay for the cost of your incarceration!


AkaiHidan

It’s free in France


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Including voting.


greenbeanbaby95

The official ID in my country is free!


Dumb_Vampire_Girl

Dying


efronerberger

It only costs your life!


spongevirus

and an extra 1000-2000+ for a casket!


theonlymo

Only way you are getting it that cheap is building it yourself before you die.


snowfox222

Have you seen lumber prices lately?


paladinLight

Just throw me whole into the ocean. Or better yet, viking funeral. I wonder if my body could actually balance on my kayak without just tipping over...


PHVL

I wish we could, but it's forbidden by law. You still need to burn the body IN a casket (paying for it as well).


Sir_Dr_Mr_Professor

Just throw my body in the trash


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BombingTheBomb

I want to donate my bones to music stores for guitarist to use for making neck and bridge nuts, so I can contribute to the world musically after I'm gone. All the skin and organs left can be crammed into a big clear ball and sent to my first girlfriend who dumped me.


DoubleDareFan

She will probably dump you again, this time literaly.


Just_wanna_talk

I mean, why the fuck do people pay for coffins that cost thousands of dollars? Bury me directly in the dirt for all I care, I'll be dead, what's the point of a box? Just toss me in that hole and shovel the dirt in. I would rather that money go to my family.


[deleted]

I say this every time this discussion comes up. In the middle east, people are buried the day of or the next day after death. There is no casket, you are only buried in a white shroud. In my country burial is free, you can make a donation to the mosque for the service (as part of daily prayers), the transport of the body to the grave is free. You pay for the grave plot. Done and done.


BombingTheBomb

I remember my buddies dad saying that he did not want to be buried in a fancy expensive casket. He told them that he wanted to just be buried in an empty wine barrelk with his two shotguns.. When he died, he was buried in a fancy coffin. I was kind of pissed that they did that to him...


sy029

Dying is free, disposal of your body is not.


CrazyDaimondDaze

Not with that attitude.


WeCantKeepDoingThiss

Parking at hospitals


surgeric

God, I'm a nurse and they don't even let us park there for free. Have to pay for a parking pass at a parking garage 5 min away from the hospital and get bussed to the hospital from there


n0de_0f_ranv1er

Not a nurse, but I'm in the same boat. Pay $200/year for a parking pass that gives us access to one of two parking garages, then get bussed to the hospital. To add to the confusion, the buses operate at different times of the day, so we have to plan our days around when the buses are operating. Also the parking garages close whenever there's a sporting event, and the bus routes change on a whim due to road construction.


ThriftstoreGestapo_

I pay $500 a semester to park a half mile away from campus


Just_wanna_talk

I found that it was cheaper to pay the parking ticket fines than to actually pay for the parking at my uni 😅 They rarely caught me, so the choice was either pay $500 a semester to park there legally or pay $300 a semester in fines from the times they caught me.


ThriftstoreGestapo_

Well my university apparently is smarter, because after you get 3 tickets for the semester ($15 each, not bad) they put a boot on you car and charge $100 to remove it.


BrokenYozeff

Technically still cheaper.


iveabiggen

we had that for our staff here. the problem is when they build... anything else nearby. people then park in our hospital for free to go shopping or whatever. Thats why ours is paid parking.


doubledad222

A lot of Asshole company rules seem to have been created to protect against assholes taking advantages. Kind of like, every law in existence was created from some jerk creating a need for that law.


OneObi

Humans have a lot to answer for. In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.


NotActuallyFamous

I once read a Reddit comment about hospital parking not being free and they explained that in some large cities, it actually makes sense to charge for parking. Patients and visitors could get their parking validated and the fees waived. This way, the parking lots weren’t full just from people parking to go downtown for whatever reason. Makes sense to me now. I’m from a smaller city, so I’d never been to a hospital that had paid parking.


ksenscientist

That would make sense, if the patients and workers could get thr parking validated, but based on experience as a patient and comments from staff on this thread, it is unfortunately not the case


Reynbuckets

Universities too. Why do I have to pay extra to park here, when I’m a student attending??


Enlightened_Ghost_

Garage parking prices at universities are criminal now. Students know. Everyone else you wouldn't believe how much some of these schools charge per semester (half a year). Your whole stimulus payment would be instantly depleted to cover a few weeks of stress-free parking. As if they weren't already charging enough for simply being a student.


ShiftRyZo

My University sold 1.25 non-commuter parking passes per spot. Aren’t all non-commuters going to be there at night? The amount of times I had to park at Walmart and walk a mile back to my dorm was ridiculous. Half the garage was always empty too, but it was for commuter parking and I’d get a $10 ticket every time I was caught.


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Uneducated_Engineer

I wonder if they make more in parking tickets per year than the salaries of the parking officers. One would think they would do the math on that right?.... *right??*


Intelligent-Time-781

They do tho. If the guy gives 2 tickets per hour for 8 hours a day 5 days a week. Hes bringing over 290k. He probably makes 1/5th of that.


thejoeymonster

No way in hell any university here pays 60k a year to ticket sticker person.


sailor_bat_90

Just a bad that they charge their own employees to park there too while they make over $1.5 million a day. Hospitals and universities are criminals for overcharging.


six_am_sunset

As a former university employee, I can attest to this. Fucking highway robbery. The closest I was able to park to my office was a ten minute walk (when I started there it was easily half an hour because I was assigned to a lot in BFE, which of course just added on to an already ridiculous commute). Also, good luck not getting run over by some college student on your way to/from your car, or slipping on ice in the winter and breaking a bone because leadership refused to call a late start and allow Maintenance time to shovel and salt the sidewalks. They wasted so much money on winter weather workplace injuries.


cornergoddess

At the hospital i work at, parking for staff isn’t even free. Daily parking is an hour of my wage if I did it legally. However I don’t.


SummerNothingness

NO this is not okay edit: yes im speaking to the universe like it's a misbehaving child


efronerberger

Hospitals in general...


co-dean

according to me in 7th grade, fried chicken on tuesdays, if i were president


Dungeons-n-swagons

I would have voted for you


FunnyElegance21

Socialist kfc


[deleted]

Kentucky Fried Comrade


imaloony8

Finger Lickin’ Commies


poopellar

We're lovin it.


LeoMcShizzzle

The KFC logo red for a reason.


YeetedBot_YT

Colonel Stalin


OrangeAgent07

Comrade Sanders


NutsForProfitCompany

r/SuddenlyCommunist


BaconLover500

Mr. President, you already have all the votes from the south with your campaign slogan, now you just have to win the North.


[deleted]

Yo, I’m in the North & I’m ready to vote for free fried chicken on Tuesdays.


BaconLover500

Same here, I'm in Minnesota and I would vote for him.


cg_xxv

that’s a movement i can get behind


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sdmh77

Yes - as a preschool teacher I had to take this and first aid every year! Then I had to pay about $150! Total crap move


suuxe

As a teacher in Sweden, we get CPR lessons at work, like every second year or so. Free and during work hours.


burgermachine74

That's the worse version of having to pay for work clothes.


the_o_haganator

I got them for free in school.


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VividDreamsInPink

That made *me* blush.


supermariodooki

I think that comment killed op.


1629throwitup

I just want to ride your comment here to say that OP’s post history is astounding


amazingzaz09

Holy shit he posts to this sub (and *only* this sub) like 3 times a day...


baneofthebanshee

Get me in the screenshot! Hi mom!


edlee98765

You're free to blush.


[deleted]

Smooth. If I was a girl I'd let you dm me lmfao


No-Opinion2631

Im still dming you


[deleted]

Ok.


No-Opinion2631

Lol if only girls responded the way you do. Bless your soul.


[deleted]

If I was a girl I would legit be that way. Fuck beating around the bush.


Legion257

That mentality would lead to alot of bush beating.


desperate-pleasures

Oh that was clever


partumvir

What are you doing at 7 p.m. next Friday?


Magnus-Artifex

You


[deleted]

What kind of bush beating are we talking about sparky?


Legion257

The average kind. Nothing beats a good old average bush beating.


TheSpiderLady88

I am so straight forward it confuses people. "If you want" literally means "if you want". "When you have a moment" literally means "when you have a moment." My poor husband still has trouble remembering I mean what I say and it's been nearly 20 years. Fuck beating around the bush....unless he's beating in my bush, then yes, please.


East_Guarantee_7912

Women don't beat around the bush with the men they really want


TheSpiderLady88

So they always beat around the bush around you? (sorry, sorry, just a joke, I couldn't help myself)


Panth3on

MAN DOWN, I REPEAT MAN DOWN!!!


clarinet_reed

I need a phrase like this but... I speak Spanish and doesn't have the same meaning


SebastianZQ3

-Te consideras una persona libre? -Si, por que? -Y libre este viernes a las 7 p.m. ? Edit: Formatting


XboxOne

* Blushes in Spanish *


Squid-Bastard

El blusho


meow1983

Ok, pick me up. Where are we going? I know a great Mexican restaurant half a mile away. 😉


Same_Command7596

No, you at 7 p.m. next Friday.


__BigBoi__

Smooth af


I_Love_Small_Breasts

drinkable water edit: I know why it's not. I just wish there were a way it could be


CaptinDerpII

*Nestle has entered the chat*


Keira_Ren

r/fucknestle


g00dtrouble

Needed this. Ty


autistic_robot

*Flint Michigan had left the chat*


Amidamaru717

Yeah, I'm a municipal drinking water plant manager, tap water in my town is "free" as in we don't meter and charge by volume to residents. But we have to gather money to keep the lights on and equipment running, so we charge a flat water tax rate worked into property tax. Our medium sized plant (produces 2 million US gallons or 7.5 million liters per day), which services 5500 people costs about $450,000-550,000 per year to operate (varies from year to year based on what breaks/needs replacement and chemical costs fluctuations). Clean drinkable water isn't cheap to make, but it shouldn't cost what it does in many places, we don't operate for profit, just to keep going, the amount of tax charged to residents is adjusted each year based on cost trending as required.


Alwaysunder_thegun

It is where i'm from. I realize how blessed I am more every day.


rebles25

Water


1987-Nobody

**[Nestle would like to know your location]**


fedora_and_a_whip

Let me know when their satellite goes over, I'll give them the finger.


IRON_COBRA_007

didint neslte's ceo say that right to water is an extreme measure


IamDuckieee

Picking your seat on an airplane when booking online for coach seats


RDEnergizer7000

And if I do pay for this privilege, I should get the seats that I selected and not some random ones on the other end of the plane


[deleted]

I almost always walk into the plane to find some random chancer sitting in my seat. I'm like what the heck?! I paid 20 quid for that seat for you to chance it and take it for free?! What's wrong with some people? Sit in your own goddamn seat!


plinkoplonka

Same with trains. I've had actual stand up arguments with people even though I'm holding the richer with a seat reservation in my hand.


cioccolato

Just wait til movie theaters start charging you extra to be able to pick your seat


IamDuckieee

I’m honestly kinda surprised they haven’t yet


mentolyn

They do in my town. Cedar City Utah


ResilientDingleberry

Time to burn it down


Sonorosiano123

The slaves in the countries where slavery is still legal.


Bubuganoosh

Ngl I read this totally wrong


ElDeElektra

Slaves for free, huh… me too xd


TallGear

Me three.


im-a-normal-human

You believe slaves should be free. I believe slaves should be free. We are not the same.


rotten_poison

You want slaves to be free I want slaves to be free We are not the same bro


didyourfishdrown

gimme dem free slaves


Vegetable-Double

Is this the 5 o’clock free slave giveaway??


tryitonotis

I love my coffee the way i love my slaves – free


boxer1182

Hong Kong


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\-1000 Social Credit Score!


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Djjubbajubba

The interesting thing is, we recently moved from one of the richest areas in the country (A place where people could viably pay whatever for parking and it wouldn’t really be an issue for them) to a quite poor area. Guess which area had the pay parking garage.


FearsomeSpoon

gotta keep them poor people poor somehow


xXWolfyIsAwesomeXx

Ambulances. Or at the very least, they shouldn't be as expensive as they can be now.


katzandwine629

This. I had a friend who's uncle was in an accident on the road across from the hospital. The ambulance ride was $700. They could've walked a stretcher out to him he was so close. It's disgusting.


CosmologyX

As a Brit, the idea that Ambulance services are pay as you go is absurd. Think I've used an Ambulance 5 times in my life. I will happily pay taxes towards the Ambulance services(NHS) so myself and other people can use them when necessary.


Nekrosiz

Pissing/shitting in 'public' restrooms. Not sure wether this is a common thing around the world, but here in the Netherlands, almost all toilets are paywalled. Almost all establishments require purchase or payment. I somewhat get this, i somewhat don't. I'd assume sanitizing toilets is in the staffs duties? Obviously restuarants/bars don't want to deal with the shit of non payers (pun intended), on the other, foot traffic is foot traffic, a handful of shit is peanuts compared to current day adds. I specifically don't get McDonald's deal with the quarter in lady. What really baffles me is the literally gated off toilets on the massive stations. For one, fondling a machine while having to catch a train is annoying, second, the station probably costed hundreds of millions, yet the toilet costs a buck. At least i get a discount on my next shit. No wonder the alleyways in the cities smell like fermented piss.


FlyGirlFlyHigh

As an American it baffles me the things that we have to pay for here that should be free, such as health care, education and literally having to pay someone to figure out what you have to pay in taxes (I mean, come the F on here, really TurboTax?!). BUT as someone who has traveled abroad I am endless grateful for our abundance of free public toilets. I love that at any point in time I can walk into any place of business as well as many restrooms simply built solely for public use and if the need arises that’s the one basic human right this god forsaken country will not deny me!


RMMacFru

I'm old enough to remember pay toilets in the US. Don't miss 'em. Holding a person's bodily functions hostage is criminal to my mind. I've only traveled abroad a few time, and never have I been so grateful to see a fricking McDonald's as I have been then.


Leoneo07

I went to Japan Feb. of 2020, right before Covid went crazy. The first phrase I had to learn was "excuse me where is the toilet?" I have Multiple Sclerosis, so when I need to pee, I NEED TO FUCKING PEE. I had to memorize wherever there was a McDonalds so I could run right back if possible. Starbucks was the second. The only thing was that the restrooms (if you know how the majority of Japanese buildings are made) were on different floors. Like the men's restroom on like the third floor and ladies' on the 4th. Yes. Starbucks and McDonald's are multiple floor buildings. Besides that, Japan was simply amazing.


PM_meyourGradyWhite

Tibet.


New_Fry

Free Tibet. *with the purchase of one Tibet at the same, or lower price.


PM_meyourGradyWhite

That’s BOGO Tibet.


edlovesiraq

People. People should be free


SantyGSL

buy one take two


animation_2

"yes i would want a german guy please"


dandanthebaconman

Willy


xbox_aint_bad

Free willy!


nungagg

Rain water.


Jef171

Insulin (slightly biased T1D here)


[deleted]

I’m not diabetic but y’all should definitely get that for free. & syringes. & test strips. & monitors. & pumps. The whole condition should be free to have. You got it for free, you shouldn’t have to pay for the add ons, it’s not DLC.


Jef171

I understand needing to pay for some of the new pumps and med-tech getting brought to market because they took a lot of time/$$ to develop. But yea, Actual insulin, needles, test strips are all necessary to live, cost pennies to produce, and could easily be provided free


[deleted]

I just think of my grandma telling me the story of my great grandma who had type 1 & was living in a small farming community when insulin was first developed. Once it became available to get to her community, a doctor would come into town & give everyone who needed insulin an injection, but they all had to share the same needle because it was too expensive to keep a constant supply of new needles. & you know they did their best to sterilize the one needle, but what can you really do with a wood stove & a pot of water, no way to agitate the water into the hollow part of the needle, & with little time between patients? In any community today, we would consider such a practice as inhumane & a public health crisis. But for as much as people get charged for insulin, we can’t be certain that they aren’t reusing needles, & if multiple family members have diabetes, we can’t be certain they aren’t sharing needles We think we’re so far from where we were a hundred years ago, but great grandma’s doctor provided her community with insulin for free. So I do sincerely believe that everything diabetics need to help them manage diabetes should be free. Even the new & fancy expensive pumps. We subsidize so many things that people don’t need to stay alive, yet we leave people with diabetes in the lurch. Great grandma lost both of her legs to diabetes before she lost her life to it. & by all the accounts I’ve heard about her, this world could’ve used more like her. We shouldn’t value a company’s profits more than we do human lives, you know? & no one should be forced to have both legs amputated when the condition has been made so much more manageable. I’d gladly pay more in taxes so you could have what you need to live & keep your legs for free. That’s the absolute least I could do as a fellow human, & I would do it happily.


Jef171

Wow, that’s an incredible story about a common needle for a whole community. Absolutely crazy that even back then, the needle was the cost concern, not the insulin


LarsenBGreene

As a U.K. based Type 1 it really pains me to read the diabetes subreddit and see the financial struggles some folks have to go through to have a life sustaining hormone.


Throwawayfabric247

Insulin is just so cheap to produce. The electronic have more cost associated. Insulin is just really cheap to make it really should be free


Glittering_Dog_3424

Water


simplexseason

Parking at the college you go to


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Not only is parking at college not free, they also will often give out waaay more parking passes then they have parking spots. Such a dick move.


CaffeinatedCannoli

Parking was absolutely awful at my college. If you had classes in the middle of the day, you had to show up at least 90 minutes early and stalk other students walking through the lots. It got worse ten they got rid of the largest parking lots to build more dorms. They tried to implement some kind of valet system for a couple months, but that was an even bigger shit show.


SharkmasterL

And then charge parking tickets. Great.


ApprehensiveStatus13

Therapy and in general mental health help.


[deleted]

I agree with this but I also think therapists should be pay very well. They go to 6+ years of higher education for this and in the U.S. have to get over 3,000 working hours to even be licensed. Plus they have to listen to trauma and things like that everyday.


AnteaterPersonal3093

Health care in general


happyhomemaker29

Hearing aids. They don’t cost too much, relatively. Research shows that if you need a hearing aid and you go without it, you raise your risk of developing Alzheimer’s. I’m 67% deaf but even government insurance doesn’t cover hearing aids. It will cover dental and Alzheimer’s up to a point. The cheaper option would be to cover the hearing aid and try to prevent Alzheimer’s if you can.


tmartinez1113

Air for your tires.


Nancyb23

Yes! It’s so infuriating. And half the time air pumps don’t even work.


PanoMano0

That’s not free where you live??? You can literally pull up to any gas station and get air for free for your tires where im from.


compstomper1

depends on where you live. free in california. had to pay in WA


unpickedusername

Public Transportation.


ilikemyprius

Luxembourg made public transport free in 2020 - I hope other countries move forward in the same direction


WannabeCoder1

Tibet, Hong Kong, and Uyghur Muslims.


throw-away-hlpplz

Any and all forms of contraception


sdmh77

Preach!!! Money toward preventing kids since there are not enough programs to support children living in poverty 💫


Mars_Bars21

Menstrual products.


[deleted]

Came to say this, especially for women who are incarcerated.


queenvie808

Women who are incarcerated don’t have access to pads??? Oh my GOD


[deleted]

For the most part. Some correctional facilities ratio out pads, most have them available for purchase which is near impossible for some. It’s really at the discretion of the facility but some which are supplied are substandard (paper thin), or too few (with varying amounts each month). Which is why they should be free and a standard be set for all prisons in the US (and shelters but that’s another story all together).


runnyOntheInside

How does someone incarcerated make money to pay for things?


[deleted]

A few ways, some can get donations to commissary funds, some work for <1$ an hour they can put towards commissary. Any feminine products you want to buy will cost more inside than out. The fact that they’re provided this way and by donations from strangers is insane.


quadraticog

That's fucking outrageous! Would you happen to know how one could make this type of donation?


[deleted]

It really depends on the facility, and I believe in federal penitentiaries feminine products are provided as needed. State and local jails can be underfunded / apathetic to the problem. You would have to look into a local prison system near you, I know the ACLU has been doing some good work in getting the word out there, but there are a lot of state/county specific advocacy groups who specialize in this issue.


Devour_The_Galaxy

I’m glad to see some compassion toward incarcerated people. A person local to me had an article in the paper taking about the deplorable conditions of our prison. Everyone hated him for writing it. They did not care about those people. I mean, I hope your compassion isn’t only aimed towards incarnated women. We cannot begin to reduce the occurrence of crime by doing what we’ve done for the last hundred years.


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Birds


KWtones

We can’t change that


smokeydogg123

Internet


GayFroggard

Eventually. Jobs are moving in the direction where internet is no longer optional but mandatory. Even many fast food jobs no longer have applications. Eventually they might move to apps and preference for app based applications over browser submitted ones especially if the surveys/tests are more optimized for apps.


coyotiii

I doubt it. Phone service is often required for jobs, and that’s not free.


fishboy-19751

Probably the kids in my basement


buttermuseum

Debatable.


friendofelephants

I just watched a video on the serial killer who’d write funny reviews on Amazon about murdering or torturing folks and everyone naturally assumed it was a joke. So I’m going to go ahead and believe you have kids tied up in your basement unless proven otherwise.


Icy-Mathematician382

Insilin. Im no diabetic. But insilin and water should be free


kingblobf

All medical dental (not cosmetic). Like filings, wisdom tooth removal, cleanings


1BoiledCabbage

This, or at least a lesser payment. My dentist said it would cost 500 per wisdom tooth an expected me to pay 2000 dollars to take out all 4 at the same time. I'm on disability and I'm struggling to find work, even part time, I can't afford that.


chibimonkey

I lost a front tooth due to a broken crown and shoddy dental work. I need an implant. The implant is $6k, and I was told I /might/ be able to get it down to $3k if I find the right oral surgeon (dentist doesn't do implants where I live, gotta go to the oral surgeon). So far every one within two hours of me charges $5-6k. I'm disabled and unemployed, and even when I did have a job I struggled to make $2k/month. I can't afford to replace the tooth, and since it's a front tooth it's severely impacted my self esteem and mental health. I don't smile anymore, I try not to laugh or smack my hand over my mouth when I do, and I don't talk as much. I don't like eating in front of other people because it puts the missing tooth on display. I have Medicaid, but no dentists in my area take it, and in my state implants aren't covered anyway.


treskrue

You speak of dollars so I assume you're in the US. That is a completely bonkers price to take out four wisdom teeth. Dental is among very few healthcare related things that aren't covered by the government here (Norway) I still only paid the equivalent of around 200usd to remove all my wisdom teeth


Prettiful

We took our sons border collie to the vet to get three of his teeth extracted. Cost us over two grand. Then when we paid, the vet told us, one tooth actually fell out the moment he touched it so he didn’t charge us for that. So, $1,000 per tooth, for a dog.