We don’t have a healthcare system in the US, we have an insurance racket.

  • originalucifer
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    606 months ago

    but hey, at least we can sell human killing devices the world over!

    that budget never seems to get cut

    • @[email protected]
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      126 months ago

      America always finds a way to pay for more bombs and death.

      Basic healthcare for our own? Sorry, the senate parliamentarian says the shareholders won’t have it. Maybe Vote harder next time sweetie!

      • Drusas
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        56 months ago

        My insurance company constantly tries to push me to use them, but they are so unreliable and difficult to work with. I refuse to use them again. They email me every time I pick up a prescription from a real pharmacy and I report it as spam every time.

        • @[email protected]
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          56 months ago

          All my prescriptions have to go through them as part of some sort of “fuck you, whatcha gonna do about it, drop dead?” process, though I technically still do get to use my choice of pharmacy in the end.

          • Drusas
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            26 months ago

            That sucks. Sorry you’re stuck with them.

        • @[email protected]
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          56 months ago

          My previous insurance just wouldn’t cover any long-term prescriptions if I didn’t fill it through Caremark on a 90-day supply. It was so annoying to deal with them. My regular pharmacy is two blocks away, if there’s an issue with insurance or something, they give me a call and have generally been pro-active. Caremark would just sit on their hands until I realized it was weird I hadn’t gotten a shipping notification, only to go “Oh, yeah, when we got this prescription we specifically requested you send through us, we decided there wasn’t enough info to determine if you need it, so you need to call your doctor and tell them to call us.”

          • @[email protected]
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            16 months ago

            I had a similar situation, and found it much more reliable to have the prescription re-issued short term so I can get it locally

  • @[email protected]
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    306 months ago

    As someone who has lived in Europe for many years, the healthcare system is one of my least favorite things about the US. Absolute trash. But many people keep voting for candidates who don’t want change, so no change it is.

    • @[email protected]
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      246 months ago

      But many people keep voting for candidates who don’t want change, so no change it is.

      Candidates who want change are rare.

      • @[email protected]
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        6 months ago

        Most Democrats I know want a different healthcare system, including myself. I always find a candidate to vote for who want the same.

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          6 months ago

          Most Democrats I know want a different healthcare system, including myself.

          Most Democrats I know aren’t candidates.

          I always find a candidate to vote for who want the same.

          It’s easy to find a Democratic candidate who says they want change.

          • @[email protected]
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            16 months ago

            It takes 60 votes in the Senate for real reform. The Democrats never have 60 votes, so it’s incremental change. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

            • @[email protected]
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              26 months ago

              It takes 60 votes in the Senate for real reform.

              Because Democrats won’t end the filibuster.

              • @[email protected]
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                16 months ago

                The end of the filibuster for Democrats means the end of the filibuster for Republicans…think about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      176 months ago

      It’s weird because most hate it. I remember when Michael Moore’s movie came out and even those in red states were gathering together to say that if we let this go on then we’re complicit!

      Then I think I remember Fox News and the right-wing going on a blitz. “Death Panels” and shit

      https://youtu.be/JPa19PgTxZc?si=_M9f1k4noEEr0XJN

      Look at this disinformation campaign. This is what pisses me off about this “both sides” bullshit. Also, whenever any comedian jerks themselves off about speaking the truth and being philosophers going off on woke when they shut their mouths about shit like this.

      • @[email protected]
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        116 months ago

        “Death Panels” and shit

        That was honestly the part that pissed me off the most about that whole discourse, mainly because we already had death panels and they were regularly sentencing people to death in order to save money.

        They were called insurance companies, and they were able to drop your coverage and sentence you to death because you can’t afford to pay to stay alive.

  • @[email protected]
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    266 months ago

    Russia has universal healthcare. Russia. Wtf America? Why aren’t you on the streets demanding it as hard as you demand things for people in other countries?

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      Because if we’re in the streets, we aren’t working. Which means we die because there’s zero social safety net.

  • Transporter Room 3
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    176 months ago

    I made about $3,000 more last year than the year before, so now I have a little under 30 days to use literally all the healthcare related things I can before I lose government insurance.

    My yearly medical costs are higher than $3,000 but not enough to justify getting insurance.

    So now I get to lose money because I made more money, Unlike all those fuckwads who blather on about how they’re paying more in taxes now than their raise was…

  • GloriousGouda
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    66 months ago

    “Healthcare” implies it’s something useful and available.

    It is “luxury health”. If you can’t pay, you don’t stay.

    Wish they would just say that instead of all this other abstract nonsense like health-care.

  • Optional
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    26 months ago

    TFW they have to find one person to state this for the headline.