That's literally the point of Universal Healthcare provided by gov, they force medical costs to go down by going to the drug companies "well if you don't reduce price, we won't buy it, and we're the only shop in the whole country"

Look at the price Germany pays for FLUOROURACIL VITANE 50ml - €3.66

Same exact drug, same exact dosage in USA - $15.99

(Looked up a price comparison and copypasted the first price I found)

Conspiracy Theory: Accelerationist Trump

Reminder that every time conservatives are given power chaos ensues and everyone's stress levels (and cost of living) skyrocket.

Every. Fucking. Time.

My wife works in long term care and I can say this: the more "conservative" inmates get visited significantly less than your "liberal" ones...

i dont mind throw me in there

In Canada when they implemented dental care they did it progressively by age group, that could help a bit with the issues you're describing.

They have been purposely fucking shit up for a long time. They just keep layering more shit on so there's never a chance of any real progress.

Is it really a fascist lie?

At least in the U.S. the educational burden has certainly increased. The cost of living, the closing of schools and combining of districts, the stagnant wages of teachers, the shortage of teachers due to the stagnation, the automation of jobs is removing apprenticeships, LLMs do not teach as well as doing things hands on. The influence of social media is still a strong pull and media literacy feels like it's at a low in the U.S.

I have a feeling in the next decade we're going to start seeing the consequences as boomers age out of legacy jobs and automation takes the place where educated workers used to.

Touché, mon ami.

Healthcare is being run as a business with "just in time" supply and demand, overworking the workers who are willing to work overtime to save patients, cutting fat and trimming operations until it is a lean machine that when you take anything away would sputter. That is the ideal neoliberal image of healthcare. We saw how that worked out with Covid. Some areas should be inefficient and have "fat".

And of course the burocracy mandated by private insurance.

well, the way i think about it: if you're a desert fox, does more rain and more food harm you?

well, consider: more rain -> more plants and more food -> it's no longer a desert. but you're a desert fox. what happens to you when you're no longer in a desert?

basically the americans (especially the republicans) see themselves as semi-desert animals. they can live in a habitat where almost no-one else can live. but if you make the place more friendly, everybody could live there and then they would lose their habitat, due to being out-competed by others who are more adapt to a friendlier climate. or at least that's how i imagine that they think; that's why they keep their country shit and eternally semi-broken intentionally, in the hope that no-one else but them can live there, and so they have the whole country to themselves.

It’s something like 90% of Americans avoid going to the doctor at all if they can help it, 5 months is a lot less time then never. Also demand drives supply, more patients means more need for clinics, imaging centers, hospitals, doctors, nurses, universities etc. universal healthcare could be a financial boon

I didn't mean to be DEI Divisive Exclusive or Incompetent. Or did it means something else.

Just to clarify I meant this government as DEI not it's original meaning, before I am downvoted to hell.

That would assume Trump is WAY smarter than he appears to be. Dude is just a rich, racist, old, dementia laden asshole with some skills at manipulating people. In his mind, and the mind of his supporters, universal healthcare is the worst possible thing because it would mean all those minorities wouldn't die so quickly AND we'd have to tax the rich more.

People like this are their own worst enemy because their ideology mostly attracts stupid, incompetent people. Also, since people like Trump demand loyalty above all else, they boot many of their smarter supporters because they have WAY too much independent thought and are either a threat or don't instantly ask how high when the boss says jump. And, in practice, the ideology is abhorrent to most of the population, even many of it's supporters. It's always a "I thought the leopards would eat OTHER people's faces" type thing.

In his mouth, yes, because it includes ThE miGrAnTs

The sponsored cans during a speech 🤡

i was about to add, that they can choose not to cover anything.

the new trend is ivermectin, some hydroxquinilone, maybe some artemesia. also becoming flouride free is a new trend too.

just notice it, its the worst brands too. FOLGERS, honey bunches and oats. remember goya, one of our local chains was carrying it up until the time he started promoting the brand, and hten it disappeared from the store completely since that time, never came back. was replaced by better beans anyways.

OZ/rfk jr already is forcing a working stipulation(hrs/week) for medicaid holders now, i think snap is included. yea it already is going to automatically kick off alot of people as it is.

hes is forcing the gop to show thier true colors instead of hiding behind thier veneer of im not racist, or bigoted, or i wont do this or that. and also exposing the DNC complicity and support for israel. now that have to show what they are saying. the hardcore magats wont budge unfortunately.

forced musk to show his true colors, made thiel partially flee the US. bezos,zuckerberg, MS, google increasingly reliant on AI infastructure which is eating into thier future profits.

i have aca plan, and it barely covers surgeries, er visits(though managable just not chronically). with the changes to medicaid/snap curreently, i suspect the ACA will be attacked soon, much last year.

unless you are on a employers dental/health plan, dental is not covered in anyway, if you try to buy a individual plan from a thier specific websites, they are more less the same in the coverage, barely anything outside of cleanings and xrays, not even cavities are covered entirely and they have a very low maximum yearly, mostly 1-2k.

wages are definitely stagnant for teachers, we had people arguing in the subs, that they are relatively "high" in certain places, but the COL negates the wages a bit. like here it takes 10years being a teacher to get even 100k, with the hcol, its way less than that. i wonder if teachers even stay that long and, if 70k is really the starting salary. im also hearing districts are using SUBSTITUTES instead to lower the cost of hiring a full time teacher.

is your dentist charge for each appt? i had to go 3 different dentists before i was able to get a crown, after root canal, after a emergency visit, i am pay out of pocket, i mininmized the cost by using yelp, and other review sites.

the chief, is actually the hospital admin, think CUDDY from house, shes the 'boss" of that hospital.

2nd one is likely student debt loan, from expensive private universities.

nurses are making bank, they deserve it. when 2 billionaires made it free for the current students, i think columbia and one other. the schools selectively excluded less well off/wealthy students(people that can stay home all day and study) from medical school from being accepted, so it isnt an easy fix, because med school is not something you can have a job and still study, thats why most tend to be wealthy MDs or well off.

alot of the MDs in our area are asian, ME, or indians, and whites. the 4 well off demographics, black and latin ones are rare, others like indigineous are almost non-existent.

this is very similar to 2 other health programs i looked at radiology technologist, and CLS. both ahve decent high income but very small bottlenecked amount of schools that teach it. Community colleges, while very cheap have horrendous acceptance, and wait times, many years(4 years sometimes), many students find it not worth it and just get a degree instead, because they only ever accept 20-30 per semester or per year out of 20k people waiting for any number CC that teach it(lucikly is not by competition, but by a lottery system).

CLS has a same problem but reversed, low number of schools that each it, and even lower for the adjacent MLT program(that can be used to bridge the gap for a CLS program), plus everyone is trying to come to the west coast for the schools(only 9 schools in the west teach it, imagining hundreds and thousands trying to get into the program at any given semester). this ensures the salaries remain high i guess, by limiting how people and how much schools are teaching it. CLS significantly more competitive than Radio techs(because it requires alot of 4 year university classes. CLS is appealing because it is a very cheap grad program(less than 20k for the whole year), compared to something like pharmacy from a nearby university which is more than 10X the cost and 3-4times as long, but thier starting salary is very similar.

radio tech people can choose to go to a university, which has expideted acceptance, but way more expensive, also similar income levels. oh and there are shortages of cls and radio techs in general, but im guessing its on purpose so they dont lower the salaries.

if you know which DNC are elected , you know some of them are actually conservative, but not R enough to be elected as a republican, they just pretend to be a dem to get elected. we dont have a significant number of AOCs, or bernies in congress, its mostly schumerites, and hakeem politically speaking. because the old guard will never agree on AOC and bernies agenda, they would rather get rich by placating GOP and thier donors.

mroe than welcome to have a single pay and regulated private insurer, like canada maybe?

to be fair car insurance should be required, because cars are potentially very dangerous, and the cost to infrastructure and people is very high if damage was incurred. also certain areas will have even higher rates than surrounding areas due to the demographics that are likely to cause accidents or collisions. thats why its important to invest in public transport more, like HSR, this will totally eliminate the need for cars in many areas.

and the DNC refusing to even investigate they knew what actually happened.

when the enhanced subsidies ended thanks to schumer, i think millions had to drop the ACA. plus recently OZ made medicaid only available if you work certain amount of hours a month, including snap.

You mean like the every functional county on earth?

Yes. It is a fascist lie.

And education != intellect, education teaches people how to harness the intellect they already have more effectively. A metaphor is "everyone has flour, education teaches you how to make it into bread"

Another key point, to fill the gap caused by extremely expensive Higher Education, self-teaching has become a booming market.

Stuff like Online Courses that give a degree if you pay, but all the material is given for free.

FOLGERS

They made their decision with the incest commercial.

If something can't cure a sausage how do these people expect it to cure a disease?

Imagine that we ran our highway system the same way we run our healthcare system. Everyone would pay a middleman who would charge us to use the roads, plus extra money for, say, certain roads where maintenance is higher, in addition to his 20%,or more fee.

They could have passed medicare for all. They didn't. Their health insurance handlers told them to go with a bipartisan approach, negotiating with Rs and we ended up with the ACA. Which is still health insurance we pay for.

cancer pseudoscience can be its own thing, lots of things like "eating natural, laughing,,,etc.

theres even one for "chronic lyme" which isnt a real disease.

The BBC, perhaps. Still conservative, but compared to some US networks they're practically three Lenin's in a trenchcoat

At least the Russian bot farmers are getting paid a few roubles for it

You continue to get shafted up the arse

I’d consider moving there if I were you, at least you’ll make a bit on the side. Here, you’re just a self harming loser