I think we were actually on track for it until Reagan happened…so if any of you happen to have a time machine…
My headcanon is now that Hinckley is a kbin or lemmy user with a time machine.
Hey we all know the saying from that Orange website a lot of us came from. We should have one for here too. How’s?
We tried and made it worse Lemmy!
This could be our icon!
We’re just lemmings after all.
We done snoo’d
Most healthcare in the US is privatised. It’s completely based on capitalism, and once you give the dragon your gold, good luck getting it back.
Just like in Germany. But capitalism works in Germany.
German and US capitalism aren’t remotely the same thing. Like ‘it doesn’t even seem fair to use the same word’ different.
Bullshit.
Because the powers that be profit from the system as it is.
Remember Rick Scott? Former governor of Florida?
Actually the Netherlands has a system that is quite similar to the US healthcare system, with private insurance and insurance subsidies for low incomes and basically privately run hospitals. The difference is that the government sorta acts like a single-payer. They set price lists for how much hospitals can charge for health care if they want to get paid by the insurance companies. And they negotiate with big pharma to purchase expensive medicines at a lower price.
Yeah, and it’s not going great. Prices are rising fast and many things aren’t covered anymore, or only in expensive extra packages. Healthcare insurance works better the more people you spread it over. We should reinstate the central Ziekenfonds. It’s cheaper for everyone.
What do you mean, NOT going great? The owners of the private hospitals are raking in sooo much cash on the backs of the
victimspatients they get to fleece, it’s awesome! Well, for them, anyway, but that’s what counts, right?
All that extra money moving around makes our GDP look huge. Don’t you want a big GDP?
Is that Guy Fieri, the guy from Smashmouth, or both?
Have we ever seen them in the same place at the same time?
I sure haven’t!
The guy from smash mouth died. So…… you never will.
Killed off that persona. Convenient.
I was convinced by the end of 2020 that the COVID pandemic would put popular opinion strong enough in favor that we might finally make some significant movement in the right direction. But instead I learned that at least 30% of the population would protest for their right to be eaten by zombies in the apocalypse and we should retire the phrase “avoid it like the plague.”
Lobbyists.
Even tho in most eu countries healthcare isnt as universal as most americans think its still leaps ahead of most other places in the world.
Because
- Two party system
- Government still based on the bible
- lefties are worshippers of Satan you know
Année that ain’t all
We have universal healthcare in the UK and can’t access it either, so don’t romanticise it too much.
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Same in Canada because everyone in power would rather spend all their time energy and expertise dismantling the health care system and privatize it than in actually making it work the way it should.
The only incentive to privatization is that a small group of people can make a lot of money.
Keeping things public doesn’t make many people wealthy and it only provides equal benefits to everyone, which everyone takes for granted and never appreciate until those benefits are gone.
Military industrial complex. You have so much excess in Ammo, equipment, and vehicles that you just gives away.
Remember how much you left in Iraq and Afghanistan? Sure bringing them back is more expensive but still…
Because conservatives think that they can take it all with them when they die. So…. It’s all about money.
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You just have to be extremely poor and old to get it.
That isn’t what universal means.
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In this case words matter, and universal is not synonymous with government run. Universal healthcare means available for everyone. If it isn’t available for everyone, it is not universal.
Government implemented universal single payer is the best implementation based on every civilized country.
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Might want to look up what “universal” means.
Medicare is hugely broken and barely works even for those who are eligible. You still need to get private insurance (called gap insurance) for many, many things.
When I had to switch from BCN to Medicare after I became fully disabled, one of my prescriptions went from $200 a month to $3500, and I started getting denied for routine tests. I was denied a heart cath my cardiologist ordered. I’ve had to stop 4 of my prescriptions because of cost, which of course has made me even more sick.
Even in some utopian daydream, that’s nowhere near ‘universal healthcare’, and expanding that broken system is not a solution.
eta: The US needs actual universal healthcare that’s not inexorably tied to privatisation.
or be elected to Congress, senate or President of the US.
(I wonder if Dependstm are covered?)
Because you don’t want to pay the taxes for it. That about it for a reason.
Freedom to spend 100-800 a month instead of a barely noticeable tax increase.
