cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/64572229
Listen to Malcolm X if you haven’t. In history, reformation follows revolutionary acts. While there are those who preach peace, there are also those who use violence to achieve peace. Those in power obviously don’t like to shed light on those that may take up violent acts.
I doubt if the french revolution was occuring today that CNN, CBS, The Washington Post, etc, would say anything. And if they did it would be to demonize the acts.
In the wake of the alleged shooting by Luigi Mangione, insurance providers started approving claims, saving lives. I don’t see major networks pointing out that fact.
Quick question, have you had to use it for anything serious?
Yes, otherwise I wouldn’t know it was good.
This year I have paid $1000 for over $1,000,000 of medical care.
Admittedly I doubt it actually costs that much but even if it’s a fraction I feel grateful what I’m paying is not too much.
That is something I can’t conceive of and I’m not alone.
Big numbers are sometimes big for no reason and elimantiong middlemen makes it go down.
Edit: I’m sorry you went through whatever it was regardless.
If you knew the details it might not be as crazy as it sounds… probably not a million but many thousands I’m sure.
Yeah it was pretty rough. Most difficult experience of my life. Even family members said for them it was also their most difficult experience.
I’m sure it was awful and I don’t mean to demimish that in any way. But again, fundamentally no matter the details it’s not something I can truly fathom. No one of any status in my country would accrue millions in medical debt.
I’m Canadian, our healthcare is flawed in many ways and only looks good when compared to the states’. But even ours, with medications, eyes, dentistry, etc. being excluded from free healthcare, that’s ludicrous.
Again, not to invalidate what you’ve been through, but to reiterate: it didn’t all have to be that way.
Sorry, this is a sensitive subject and don’t mean to get intro it this much. I just want you and others to know this isn’t natural or even common
Well presumably everyone in Canada has good insurance.
But regardless of whether you pay out of pocket or not someone is still paying the cost when people need expensive medical care. Hopefully yours is more efficient than ours but time, expertise, hospital beds, supplies… these things are not cheap.
Oh boy.
No.
The biggest grocery stores (oligopolies) are notorious for not giving employees 40h/wk specifically so they don’t need to include health benefits. And that’s just one example.
Edit: nearly half of. Canadians are living paycheque-to-paycheque
Oh I thought you had universal healthcare. It’s still tied to employment?
Nope, dental, eyes, and prescriptions, etc. are excluded 🤷♂️
Edit: which is admittedly still better than south of the border, but weak compared to east of the Atlantic
The point your missing is you shouldn’t have to pay anything.
That would be nice but is there anywhere on earth that has totally free healthcare? I thought even the gov run ones have some payments involved.
Payments might make sense for some discretionary things, as long as they’re affordable. There are a small number of people who really will just make shit up for attention and even a small cost can help mitigate that. But it has to be affordable for everyone which it obviously isn’t under capitalism.
In developed countries part of your taxes goes to healthcare, and then you get healthcare when needed. Sometimes you pay extra if you want something outside of the regular coverage, but it’s always something extra. Like, you get an operation, but if you want a personal room for recovery you pay extra for it, otherwise they give you a bed in a room for, like, 4. That sort of things.
My appendix burst, and I almost died
It didn’t cost me a cent
I had a fuckwit colleague do something dumb, and I almost lost a fingertip
It didn’t cost me a cent
Etc. etc.
Fuck 'Murica
I had major surgery and a payment method didn’t even cross my mind. I was seriously injured, we have free healthcare (with caveats), it was simply prudent to take care of it right away than let it fester and further tax the system.
Has it occurred to you that you shouldn’t be paying anything at all?
In what western country would you pay less than $1000 annually for healthcare?
They didn’t pay less than $1000 for healthcare. They paid $1000 in addition to their insurance. In developed countries you pay for your healthcare and then you don’t pay for it again when you actually use it.
In developed civilized countries, you pay according to your ability to pay, because it’s not a business: it’s a common service, we don’t want anyone to go without.
You are correct. I should have included the normal payments in the total but my spouse pays that so I don’t know what it is.
Australia
New Zealand
The UK
Me too. My wife had cancer.
Damn sorry. Hope things turned out OK.
So far they have for me but it’s sort of an ongoing thing still…