Neoliberalism, it is a funny thing. Let’s see what happens in the US.
Well, the miserable worker, named Jose Ribas da Silva, has a job that pays $ 20/hour, reasonable salary, a reasonable job for our persona non grata. Paid time off: 20 days. Since Jose loves unprotected sex and hard drugs (cheating on his wife), he got gonorrhea and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, both antibiotic resistant strains. 20 days in the hospital, receiving IV antibiotic cocktails. Jose is a warrior, he survived. However, there is no more vacations during the rest of the year… what will happen if he got sick again?
Since Jose is from Brazil, he and his wife went to the US looking for the American way of life. The job that Jose got pays $ 400/month in a health insurance, the cost sharing for using the emergence room is about $300. In an emergency situation, Jose takes an uber, of course, never calling an ambulance. In addition, Jose needs to pay $800 for his wife’s insurance, because his contract does not allow dependents. Hummm, 20 days in the hospital… Jose is bankrupted; he is now planning a fugue via Mexico to Brazil, he does not know how to climb walls, nonetheless, he hopes there are no walls there.
In the morning of the aforementioned fugue, Jose bought some newspapers; he likes being informed. At that specific morning, he read that the military expenses would be increased in a near future…
What happens in Brazil?
Here, “where the monkeys live in the cities”, the public health system is totally free. Excellent quality (can be tough to book a non-urgent appointment sometimes, though), everything is free for everyone, even the most expensive treatments, such as oncological ones, etc.
If Jose, back to Brazil, get sick, his vacations will continue there, same time, these are two separate subjects.
The minimum amount of days, for a vacation period, is 30, for all workers.
These benefits in brazil were conquered before the Second World War, before the US consolidates itself as the richest country in the world. After that, because of the cold war, the US’ interferences in Brazil made shit like Bolsonaro reaches the power (of course, we have our shits too, A LOT OF THEM, including monkeys' shit)