#I hate us healthcare

[howlingdemon13]

Wondering how much this trip to urgent care is going to cost me. ✌️🙃

#my heart is pounding #I’m really scared #but I’m more scared that they won’t do anything #ugh! #I hate US healthcare

[8-bitbrainrot]

#like and subscribe for more quality memes #8-bitsbrainrot #/lh #/silly #i hate us healthcare #scratches my skin off

[a-midnight-rabbit]

So itchy when's the allergist gonna get back to me (⁠〒⁠﹏⁠〒⁠) been in hell since September and even changed my laundry detergent to no avail

#i hate us healthcare #allergies suck

[overenthusiasticcartoonlover]

So fucking, let me get this correct, useless excuse for a healthcare system USA. I have to pay a fee to a center to get a fucking egd done, that the center won’t take my fucking insurance for, and then I have to pay forty percent of the cost of the egd to my surgeon, because my insurance isn’t required to cover any more than that, if I haven’t reached some magical goddamn deductible. 

Then I also have to pay all of what the anesthesiologist charged! Because insurance wants to fucking whine and scream and throw a fit about the person I didn’t fucking hire and was supplied by said center not being in their special group of people they made a deal with, and that’s completely legal? And there’s no fucking way around this? 

Like, at this point it feels like the people in charge actively want us to fucking suffer, and I wish they could fucking suffer at the hands of the system they created and keep sustaining, but that won’t happen, because they fancy themselves gods and get put above it all, because they get to make the fucking rules.

#I hate the fucking us #I hate us healthcare #I hate us officials #I hate congress the senate all of that fucking bullshit #You fucking allow rich corporate assholes to torture poor people for their amusement #And it makes me more sick than my fucking stomach disease does #Personal Over Rant #I'm so fucking angry about it #This system is full bullshit #US healthcare feels like a fucking scam

[thefrostyknight]

Nice Arknights reference I cry having to pay $174 to see my doc just to get my meds refilled.

#i hate us healthcare

[mueritos]

i hope we continue to see more protests within the US military. i see a lot of leftists and folks who are anti-military who have such an open disdain for the people who are in the military, yet neglect to considering the conditions this country makes to produce ideology, poverty, and the illusion of choice to make all kinds of people choose to enlist in the military. You ever see those videos of ROTC kids recording each other asking why they joined the military and everyone's like, "healthcare", "it helped me go to college", "I was bored" or "free ptsd lol". I hate to remind everyone but folks who are in the military are people, too, and they are the same victims and perpetrators of violence as the rest of you, we have all been shallowly conditioned to view each other as enemies just because one person is wearing army greens and the other is not.

some of the biggest anti-war advocates are those who engaged in war. Veterans who genuinely believed they were protecting the US against "terrorism" come back with blood on their hands, and they choose to realize that it was US imperialism that forced them to carry out violence, instead of doubling down and shielding themselves from the fact that they too are capable of atrocities... This is a class of people who are intentionally conditioned to be as poor and as ideologically aligned to US imperialism so that the military has a never-ending pool to send their youth to destroy other country's youth. The only people I have ever heard say "do not join the military" are those who ARE military.

This is in no way to ever excuse or explain away any of the atrocious war crimes and violence this industry and its people have committed against others. What I am saying is that we absolutely cannot cast aside the individuals who have been victimized within US imperialism, even if they are wearing army greens. I was speaking with my Palestinian classmate last week and another classmate--a member of the US air force-- walked up to me and struck up a conversation. My military classmate showed me her new bird, bid both of us goodbye, and left. My Palestinian classmate asked me if I was close with her, and I said we talked quite often, and she said, "I never met a person who's in the military. I still hate the military, but I never knew that they did, too. I didn't realize that they were also victims."

If my Palestinian classmate--one who is actively watching her own community die--can understand that it is not individuals who are the problem but it is in fact systems, US imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism...why can't we all? And she has EVERY reason to hate any individual military member. A lot of online activism just creates more barriers. if your optics look bad, complicated, or contradictory, you are cast aside. Everyone has got the be the perfect activist, you can never make a mistake or share a half-baked thought, you should always believe every word from a marginalized persons mouth (because being marginalized doesn't mean you're not entrenched in white supremacy too!) and you should never question what you see...Do you know what you sound like? The very imperialists who are convincing poor whites to vote against themselves. Perfectionism is white supremacy. Black & white thinking is white supremacy.

I'd rather have a military member who genuinely believed in the US imperialism machine but was disillusioned after being deployed as my comrade than some leftist who cherishes the performance of "being a good person". I don't want "good people" in our movements. I want humans who care. I want humans who make mistakes and who learn from them. I want humans who accept the messiness of a person. I want humans who hold others accountable and allow themselves to take responsibility for their actions. I want people who change for themselves and others.

fight systems, not individual people. we can change each other, but if we're too preoccupied looking like the World's Perfect Activists, we will only consume each other alive. Connect to your fellow humans, forever and always.

#muertotalks #a mind dump after seeing so much come out after the self immolation of the us air force member #i know hes not the first one to self immolate for palestine #and he might not be the last #i hate the military #i really fucking do #but i choose to see the people within them as victims within the overall system just like the rest of us #i will never go through what they did to make them choose to enlist #i never struggled with poverty homelessness healthcare or social acceptance #i wont shame them #shame is not productive #i want them to know there are civilians who support their protests #i want them to know that we their allies too #a note on my palestinian classmate #if youre arab or also a colonized person impacted by the us military feel free to hate every member of the military #i dont intend to police yall in how you choose to feel your anger #im angry with you #the point i mean to make is about understanding and compassion #someone who has every right to hate these people still chose to see them as the people they are #yes i even want the best for the “bad” people in the military too #i dont want these people to continue the ideology but we cant stop that without dismantling these systems #and we cant do that without creating spaces for healing and reform and growth #so many thoughts so many thoughts #none of this is easy #i fight daily against impulsively hating the world #everyday is a fight to choose compassion and understanding #but being a leftist and doing leftism is not fucking easy #if you genuinely think it is it isnt #and you may be missing the point of what leftism is #anyway

[poisonousquinzel]

"a dude in Texas legally changed his name to "Literally Anyone Else" and he's attempting to run for President against Biden & Trump" [source]

okay, but putting aside the comedic aspect of this, it is concerning the amount of people who are prompted to vote for candidates just because it's funny. I'm not the biggest fan of how his policy about the boarder sounds [Site], but I do implore anyone who is able to vote in the 2024 US election to please research other candidates.

The media is only going to continue pushing the idea it's inevitably going to be Trump vs Biden 2.0 and we have no other options, that we have to vote for Biden again because of Project 2025. Is that whole thing terrifying?

Yeah, fucking absolutely.

But voting for Biden will not solidify our safety from that. Biden is exactly like the rest of them. He always has been. You can't make the lesser of two evils argument when they're both just plain evil.

You cannot say that Biden is even mildly a better choice than Trump when he is currently directly involved in a genocide. That is not some little fucking thing. That in and of itself disqualifies him as a lesser evil. Biden is just as bad as him and he will not save us because he doesn't fucking care.

Cornel West [Site] is an Independent candidate running for President in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia [Site] are running for President and Vice-President as the candidates of the Party for Socialism and Liberation in the 2024 Election. [Policies]

There are options.

There are people trying to change the corrupt foundation our system is built on, but we have to help amplify them because the mainstream media will not.

#have you looked at what's happening in New York & the subways #There's so many reported shootings and deaths and it just seems to be getting worse. #I just looked up subway shooting ny because I wanted to check before saying something #There's reports from like 3 hours ago about someone getting pushed in front of one of the moving subways & there's so many others #or how about the like thousands of police officers that they've got stationed at subways in ny literally doing fuck all #or how everyone's going through a housing crisis and cant afford rent and cant get medical care because it can cost #$4000 to get a fucking ambulance and that's cheap. That's a ride to the hospital less than 20 minutes away probably. #or the rise in hate crimes and bigotry and all the shit they're now trying to censor with the kosa bill #or how terrifying places like Florida have became for anyone thats not seen as an equel by people who dont view most others as equels. #or how they're pouring billions into wars while we're in the midsts of a homeless crisis #suicide rates are at record levels in the us and it's only going to get worse. theyre pulling telehealth which will take away #life saving medical care for people who dont have the ability to go in person. people's ability to get therapy and meds being taken away #Is going to kill people. or how the Biden administration has fucked up their Covid response so goddamn badly #people are referring to the pandemic in past tense and have lost understanding for others who they'd have understood before #they've lied and they've concealed and its killing millions of people and disabling even more. but they will not take accountability. #long covid is ruining people's lives and they've successfully led the narrative that its not real or not that serious. #they will sit there and they will lie. they will say they've protected women's rights and that its a top priority. #they'll say that healthcare is a top priority but have suggested that they'd veto a healthcare for all bill because of its price tag #but will spend billions and billions and billions on a genocide that the majority is against. the system isn't going to begin collapsing #it already is. #its crumbled and we must demolish the corrupt remains and rebuild a better government that gives a shit about people #ALL people. #they use basic human rights as bargaining chips. #the Democrats and Republicans on a Venn diagram is a circle. wake up.

[arctic-hands]

I've had more than one anarchist I associate with be surprised to learn I'm actually not an anarchist. But like. I'm a huge proponent of the Welfare State, and you kind of need a state for that

#welfare #welfare state #food stamps #Medicaid #medicare for all #universal healthcare #ubi #ssi #if a government isn't going to take care of its people then the government has no use to the people at all #so like I'm down for dismantling a system that only exists to rule and oppress and watch us die #and i don't mean 'fascists are okay if they make the trains run on time' type shit bc I'm staunchly antifascist #but like i do think a government can take care of even the most vulnerable of its populace if it really wants to. it just doesn't want to #undesirables who can't turn the cogs of capitalism are to be disposed of in most governments. esp the United States via #passive eugenics #anyway #revolution or not if the medical infrastructure goes down for any reason then me and a fuckton of other undesirables are dead #also this next statement is less towards anarchists specifically and more for like utopic commune people but anyway #if your utopia is based on 'work to live/earn your place' you are not a leftist you are a capitalist with a woke vocabulary #and i hate you

[silvermoon424]

There's an actress named Ellen Barkin. Last night, she posted on her Twitter that her health insurance is no longer in service because the insurance company says that residual pay doesn't count. Btw Ellen Barkin is a senior. Boy, the USA is really ableist when it comes to people who are sick or elderly or both.

It's insane how ableist the US is and how ableist conversations around universal healthcare are. Like people will go straight up mask-off and say that they think people who don't "contribute" to society don't deserve to get healthcare if they can't pay for it themselves.

It always makes me laugh when conservatives cry about "death panels" in other countries (basically, they argue that with universal healthcare the government decides who gets to live and who dies) when in reality insurance companies are de-facto death panels in the US. Like you can literally have insurance, have been paying for that insurance for years, and they'll still decide helping you will cut into their bottom line too much. Fuck them.

#asks #I actually work in the insurance industry now but in a nonprofit regulatory body that helps set laws that benefit consumers #it's also not JUST health insurance it's for literally all insurance in the US #I would fucking hate actually working for a health insurance company #it seems like the one of most soul-crushing jobs there is #us healthcare #us health system

[mokutone]

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Panel one has a view into Kakashi's bedroom from just outside the open window. We look over the bed where Tenzō's Anbu mask is resting and past the flapping curtain, and see the spot where Kakashi and Tenzō are sitting. Tenzō, still crouched by the side of Kakashi's bed, is mostly hidden aside from the top of his head. Kakashi is sitting with a loose, tired posture, looking wryly out the open window. "And then you came to my apartment, " Kakashi says. "Maybe it felt safe and secluded enough to have your breakdown in. Which is flattering, but to be fair, my wards are usually immaculate."

The second panel, they are sitting, knees touching knees, facing each other. Kakashi's eyes are closed, like he's trying to force a smile, but not succeeding very well. He has one arm wrapped around himself. Tenzō is leaning forward towards Kakashi, eyebrows low over his eyes. "But I didn't plan—I didn't choose to do this, to feel this," Tenzō argues. "Who would?" Kakashi asks. He continues, "The only drawback of having trust, of having a place to be vulnerable, is that sometimes you'll have to be vulnerable in it, I guess. Hurts, huh?"

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#my art #naruto #comics #yamato #tenzō #yamato tenzo #kakashi #im sooo pleased with the top panel. but i hate the second panel so much. the duality of a single comic page #in trying to remove himself from the subject hes speaking about (repression) kakashi uses very definite second person speech #even though he throws the word ''maybe'' or ''perhaps'' in there to indicate that he doesn't know tenzō's internal workings #to tenzō it sounds very much like ''you did this because you probably felt this. you did this about that..'' #and tenzō is very much like ''I. NOT INTENTIONALLY? I PROMISE I DIDN'T PLAN THIS!'' #tenzō feels like he's being assigned a greater agency than he felt. is i guess what im saying #if kakashi instead talked abt a situation where he acted similarly to tenzō its possible this might have given tenzō an opportunity #to understand his behavior through comparing it to kakashis. recognition of self through the other or w/e. BUT. #kakashis not a mental healthcare professional. hes ALSO just a traumatized kid. with bad coping mechanisms. trying his best. #tenzō is 13 here so kakashi is probably around 16 #thats part of why i draw him as or mention thruout this comic that hes getting frustrated or uncomfortable #hes a kid! hes not good at this! he's just Unfortunately tenzō's best option for support at the moment. literally its either Kakashi #or going to the Hokage like ''hi Hiruzen I have concerns that I might be a danger and a threat to your village.'' #''do you want me executed or banished? Really I insist it's your choice Hokage-sama. I'm really not picky."

[leaves-fall-down]

"There's other arab countries for Palestinians to go to!!!" This is gonna blow your stupid little mind but much like how Canada isn't just America: Second Edition™️ and how not all Latinos are Mexican, Arab countries aren't the same! They just aren't! Some arab nations speak dialects of Arabic that are literally unintelligible to each other when compared! MSA exists because of this! North Africa has many differences by itself! So does the levant! So does the gulf! If you think Morocco is the same as Lebanon or Iraq you are literally just super fucking racist quite frankly! If you're response to Palestinian's suffering is "oh well there's enough similarites between them and these other people just chuck 'em over there!" you're not only bizzarely culturally insensitive but are also racist to an extent that is probably borderline sociopathic and don't even realize it!

#what can I expect from my fellow americans though honestly #people who understand they themsleves in america have unique cultures in each state but that all the “icky scary brown people” are one #while also thanking Canada's just us but with healthcare and no guns #as for the rest of you if you say this fuck you to I hate you too lol #palestine #talking to the void

[youarenotthewalrus]

The great thing about Brian David Gilbert is that it is genuinely impossible to predict what he will do next. I did not expect his next video to be a guide to navigating US health insurance. You did not expect his next video to be a guide to navigating US health insurance. And yet that is precisely what it is.

#god i hate the us healthcare system so much #idle musings #bdg

[monotonous-minutia]

essential track on my "trying not to bang my head on the wall while figuring out next year's health insurance" playlist

#sometimes i really hate adulting #my work gave us all of 2 weeks to decide if we want their plan (which they described to us 2 weeks ago) #or use an open enrollment plan from the healthcare marketplace #i hate how fucking vague they all are like i barely know what im paying for and what's covered #i stg theyre all out to get us #can we have universal healthcare already #rant #personal #at least i have some great music to help me through it 💚 #Spotify

[like-it-or-not-i-am-alive]

I feel dutiful in posting about this to shame health care workers who talk transphobic shit behind the patients' backs.

Something I heard working in the ER today:

"No, he is fucking weird. He's in his 70s and decided he wants to become a woman. And is painting his nails." -A kind woman's attending nurse.

#transgender #gay #lgbtqia #save trans kids #trans #trans pride #nonbinary #fuck transphobes #fuck terfs #transphobic nurses #transphobic healthcare #healthcare fail #the healthcare system in the us is so broken and shameful. #i feel ashamed to be around these people #trans people #trans people are deserving of proper healthcare #who gave you the right to judge your patient for existing #she was such a nice lady in need and you still had to be awful #why are people like this #i hate it here

[47-protons]

many thoughts head full yet so devastatingly empty (< my brain is going about a billion miles per hour and i cannot slow it down enough to put any of the thoughts into any type of coherent statement) ((it is flicking wildly back and forth between q/smp and usmp. like if you took a metronome and set it to like a billion BPM.))

I have never frantically edited a post faster to put a slash between four letters

#hi i'm listening to winter's come and gone and i'm being Normal about it #''little black bird on my wire line. dark as troubles in this heart of mine.'' #and my brain is shoving Winter's Come and Gone. The Blackest Crow. and Foreign Lander. it's shoving all of them in a blender and i am havin #am having MANY thouhgts. absolutely brain rattlers. #the blackest crow that ever did flew would surely turn to white if ever i prove false to you bright day would turn to night #bright day would turn to night my love the elements would mourn if ever i proved false to you the seas would rage and burn #i lie awake out in the night. i see the shining stars. i wonder if you see them too wherever you are. #i'm normal. :+1: #i wish my breast were made of glass wherein you might behold upon my heart your name lies wrote in letters made of gold #in letters made of gold my love believe me when i say you are the darling of my heart. until my dying day. #Goes into Flick's character playlist. whacks apocalypse lullaby in there at mach 4 #my brain is Rattling with everything from sp/iderbit to phil to forever to flick and usmp s2 brainrot (< again) #i am Extremely abnormal about the end of s2 #more accurately. i am going through my playlist of chill folk/bluegrass tunes bc i have been having Feelings about. smth I will probably #never say out loud. i like the russian girl thing on like. tiktok and instagram. it is interesting and neat #to learn about other people's cultures- even if specifically it's about them feeling disconnected from theirs. #there is a rotting in my chest. there is no culture here. i don't think the US as a whole can go ''aha this is the american culture'' what #work until you die. never get healthcare. have every other country hate you. that's fair. #i am sitting with the bluegrass songs my grandma would sing me to sleep with when i was a baby and i am being normal #it took me two years before i could listen to Ashoken Farewell without bawling. they played that at her funeral. specifically my cousin #got up and played it. I'm normal. i'm so normal about this. culture can be school shootings and rampant capitalism but it can also be. banj #banjo and fiddle. i want to go to the bluegrass festival this year. i think it will be good for me. #america on the whole. probably does not have a unified cultural identity. and i guess that's okay #i'll align myself out towards the oklahoman panhandle and all the goatheads i got as a kid. i never saw the problem with quacki/ty's bedroo #i liked the rock walls. it reminded me of my grandma's house. she had a dugout. i miss it (< lost it in a wildfire a year after she died) #it wasn't like. a sod house. it was entirely underground though for Years until they had my uncle aaron and needed an extra room so then th #they got a Single upstairs room. The stairs were back by the cellar. i miss it. my mom would tell stories of the bus dropping her off and #classmates telling her ''there's a cow on your roof'' #i miss it. i should go to sleep i think #i don't think i've ever felt 'american' but i sure have felt 'kansan' and that's. okay enough for me i think

[spaceshipkat]

have had a lump in my throat for three days now and am frankly pretty tired of it

#last time this happened was when i hadn’t been taking my thyroid meds for a while (bc i didn’t have health insurance) #now that im finally financially stable enough to pay out of pocket (bc us healthcare HATES freelancers) im on my meds again #so i don’t think my thyroid is the issue?? idk maybe spring allergies #anyway it’s very annoying #oh or maybe stress? does stress cause a constant lump in your throat? wouldn’t surprise me #stress is the bane of my existence and my modus operandi atm