#universal health care

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

Hell is a place where companies make bank off the aggrieved father of a dead child for the removal of the child’s organs for donation.

#class war #class warfare #classism #capitalism #hmos #universal health care #hell

[politijohn]

Source

Privatized health care is a scam. Check your claims. Get the healthcare you deserve. Make your provider do what they’re supposed to.

#health care #health #important #capitalism #Medicare for all #m4a #universal health care

[jeffdraws]

In this new year I want a free Palestine, a free Ukraine, a free Sudan, and everywhere else being plagued by colonialism and genocide. I want to stop seeing high end condos no one can afford, and I want to see an end to record profits for CEOs and executives. I want to see open borders, free food and universal health. I want us to see kindness, empathy, and us treating each other humanely, I don't want to see us go backwards. I don't want to give up hope.

#free palestine #free ukraine #free sudan #universal health care #universal housing #universal human rights #world peace #hope

[tiliman2]

I have no notes 📝

#democrats #genocide Joe #dnc #election 2024 #tiktok #student loan debt #universal health care #minimum wage #free palestine #joe biden #bernie sanders #hillary clinton

[liskantope]

I think part of the reason I tend to get so argumentative nowadays about "what your side proposes kills people" -type political talking points is that it seems that this is being used more and more frequently as a rhetorical bludgeon, mainly (though not entirely) from the Left. There's a lot of shutting down of arguments based on "but HUMAN LIVES", and it's begun to feel to me like a disturbing trend. For instance, a good bit of the rhetoric in favor of shutting down schools in 2020-2021 seemed to center on "here, look at my computation that the expected value of children's lives lost if we don't shut down schools is greater than zero; anyone who disagrees with us doesn't VALUE HUMAN LIVES", with the effect that a lot of us (including to some extent me) were blinded for a long time to the absolutely devastating effect such extensive school shutdowns (in some geographic areas) had on children and their whole families, an effect that is still scarring them today. I'm not saying anything about whether or how far those school shutdown policies went wrong, just that they had very substantial harmful effects that don't vanish relative to the VALUE OF HUMAN LIVES.

Then there's the now-everyday claim that the anti-trans culture warriors "ARE KILLING US [TRANS PEOPLE]", which is true under a particular interpretation of "killing" and tragically true to an extent pretty well beyond some vanishingly rare extreme cases but is also transparently being used to drown out most other aspects of the debates around trans issues. Much more disturbing still is the accusation I now semi-regularly see casually flung that conservatives "actively want us [trans or LGBT+ people in general] dead" (I think I've occasionally seen left-wing variations on this that aren't even about LGBT+ people). A couple of months ago I called it "stomach-turning" ("it" being both the content of the accusation itself and the fact that so many people in our cultural discourse have seen fit to use it; this of course was semi-willfully misinterpreted by someone as my saying that trans people turn my stomach), and I reiterate now that it's still completely turning my stomach. This example is different from others in some fundamental ways, some of which make me more sympathetic with why people feel driven to use it (and it's not being used to drown out completely unrelated issues, for instance, like the guns thing is), and the general rhetorical weapon of "the other side wants to kill us" deserves its own effortpost which I intend to write later this summer.

So anyway, yeah, I'm also getting a kind of short fuse around insinuations of "what they show kids in school won't kill them, but guns could, so that's the only issue involving schoolchildren that anyone should care about" that I now see daily.

Of course, invocations of "my cause is the one whose stakes directly involve life or death so it outranks everything else" isn't exclusive to the Left at all. The Right has been doing it for decades with abortion to shut down both the abortion debate and whatever unrelated debate they didn't want to have ("millions of babies are being MURDERED each year, while liberals obsess over [women's bodies] [or] [just about any totally unrelated issue which appears frivolous next to MURDER]"). I also vaguely remember something that sounded like this in the post-9/11 years ("we're the ones looking out for Americans who might be KILLED in the next terrorist attack, that has to be the only priority right now"). And there was that bizarre "death panels" accusation around 2010-2011 when Obamacare was being debated which I guess might also count.

Only loosely related, but I'm reminded of a moment in the very first vice presidential debate, between Bob Dole and Walter Mondale in 1976, where Dole invoked a computation of the number of deaths in wars the US engaged in under Democratic versus Republican presidents, and apparently he got a lot of blowback from how underhanded this rhetorical move came across.

#political discourse #death #suicide #covid pandemic #school shutdowns #trans issues #gun control #abortion #terrorism #universal health care #american presidential politics

[randyite]

#family leave #developed country #rich nation #first world #paid vacation #universal health care #affordable college #child care #elder care #2024 election

[i-just-like-commenting]

Tweet from Jim Banks: “Student loan forgiveness undermines one of our military’s greatest recruitment tools at a time of dangerously low enlistments.”

So, add this to the pattern and--

The high cost of education drives people into the military.

The high cost of private insurance keeps people in crappy jobs.

The high cost of housing keeps people in crappy relationships.

Make education free, and we undermine the military industrial complex.

Make insurance free, and workers have greater strength than employers.

Make housing free, and people can leave abusive situations more easily.

--All sounds good to me.

#socialism #american politics #student loan forgiveness #free education #universal health care #medicare for all #universal housing #housing is a human right #found on twitter

[goddammitstacey]

Just finished writing an article on universal healthcare in the U.S (or…y’know….the lack thereof) and I want to scream and throw things at some of the “nay” arguments I had to read as research.

“The healthy will pay for the sick”

“The rich will pay for the poor”

THAT IS HOW A SOCIETY WORKS.

I DON’T KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN TO YOU THAT YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE.

#like Australia’s UHC system has a lot of flaws #but I would literally be dead by now if I lived in the US #disability #Medical privilege #universal health care

[tinyshe]

About one million people in England are on more than one waiting list for treatment, it has been revealed for the first time, as the NHS backlog hits a new record high.

There were 7.77 million waits for non-emergency care at the end of September - up from 7.75 million in August.

But analysis by NHS England has found that includes many people who are waiting for more than one treatment.

Most are on two or three waiting lists, but some will be on up to five.

(source)

#health #uk #nhs #universal health care

[halfwaybyaccident]

Hey guys!

Friendly reminder that the Affordable Care Act marketplace assistance isn't actually very helpful.

The "subsidy" is just an advance on your tax refund. That means that if you make less than expected, you have to pay the difference.

The less you make, the more you pay. The more you need help, the less you get.

It's actually just another program that says fuck poor people.

Thanks for coming to my bed talk.

#aca #affordable care act #obamacare #a boring dystopia #boring dystopia #fuck republicans #fuck trump #eat the rich #fuck capitalism #universal health coverage #universal health care #fuck insurance companies #fuck billionaires

[eaglesnick]

101 Things You Should Know About the UK Tory Government

Thing 76

In Thing 67 I quoted Jeremy Corbyn who had written about the Tory plan to destroy the NHS.

“How to destroy the NHS:

Step 1.  Run it into the ground with austerity

Step 2.   Exploit the crisis to empower the private sector

Step 3. Abolish the principle of universal health care."  (Corbyn:Twitter: 03/01/2)

I then gave some examples of how Steps1 and 2 were already being implemented but stated that we had not yet reached Step 3.

“No politician has yet come forward to openly advocate the abolition of the principle of universal health care, free at the point of use. We will have to wait and see if Corbyn is the dangerous socialist portrayed by the right-wing press, or a man with more forward vision than all of the Tory Party put together.”

This position has now changed. The senior Tory politician Sajid Javid is today calling for a two-tiered  system, where the better off pay for NHS treatment, thereby ending the principle of treatment free at the point of use.

“Patients should be charged for visits to the doctor and to accident and emergency, Savid Javid has said, with the Conservative former health secretary labelling the current NHS system as “unsustainable” (LBC: 21/01.23)

Mr Corbyn has been proved right after all!

#uk politis #NHS #universal health care #sajid javid #doctors #medical fees #jeremy corbyn

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

Fun fact: two-thirds of personal bankruptcies in the U.S. are due to medical expenses.

#class war #class warfare #classism #universal health care

[politijohn]

Source

#Health #health care #politics #us politics #government #the left #progressive #Medicare for all #universal health care #m4a #current events #news

[lovinglynx]

Me, explaining to my manager that insurance should cover all medical expenses if we're not gonna have universal health care as a country.

My manager does not agree.

#literally why not #idc of the expenses are from preexisting conditions #if i have congestive heart failure and need meds to stay alive #and i am supposedly a valued employee #who pays hundreds of dollars out of my check each pay period #to deserve health care #would it not be conducive to do what it takes to keep me alive?? #if i die youre not getting that money OR my labor #so shell out the cash mf #if im healthy i work better #so keeping your people healthy makes the company happy and wealthy #its not that hard to understand #health care #medical care #universal health care #america sucks

[void-thegod]

There are so many things that I want from this world

I have a ... mission. Or rather, a calling.

A special interest turned into an all consuming part of my reality.

This is something that can happen to almost anyone, of course. There are many things in the Cosmos which are interesting, beautiful, and horrific -- all rolled into one.

But even if absolutely nothing comes from such an integral part of my being (don't worry, that's 100% untrue as it is), there are so many other things in this world...

I want to have a better me and a better Life - physically, mentally, and spiritually. In heart and character: kind, magnanimous, willing to grow, and considerate. Commitment to virtue and the Truth means being fully aware of the shadowy aspects of Life. To judge as a means of discernment and not only condemnation...

This world makes it really hard to be any sort of good person.

Once you have so much success, it seems the less is expected of you. The more you're knowledgeable of and willing to change, the more dangerous you are.

So many heroes and geniuses have been killed and buried under The Machine.

The Powers that Be have ruled long enough and done enough evil to be in full view of the populace and destroy the Earth.

I've watched/experienced this with a nightmarish level of clarity since I was a toddler.

It's 2024.

Why is humanity here?

I can't help but wonder if we want it bad enough. If there aren't enough good and motivated people with enough resources and ability.

I wonder if humanity will make it out of this. If I will have a life that is worthy of living and being happy in. As I have since childhood.

We are all humans, barring any conspiracy theories. Even if we were different species of humanoid, any sane and reasonable creature wouldn't deny individuality among a species.

We share a lot of DNA with flies and monkeys. We all came from the same primordial soup and stardust.

I wanna see what we're capable of. Imagine if we were able to cast aside all the things that have held our development back. The ignorance, hate, and vices (that were more harmful than anything ;)

What sort of lives would we live?

Well: here's to finding it out.

#humanity #oddity #queer #trans #bigotry #transandrophobia #lgbtq #trans man #transmisogny tw #trans women #solidarity #us politics #human rights #futurism #socialism #universal basic income #universal health care #eutopia #utopia #conspiracy #kind #compassion #evolution #climate crisis #calling #spirituality #health #science #renaissance #history

[truegeorge]

Health Care

Today’s JY Provocative Question# 18: What specific changes should be made to improve the health care system? You’d think that the United States would have the number one health care system in the world, given that people from all over the world come to the US to get health care treatment that is not available anywhere else.  The Legatum Institute’s 2023 world health care ranking has ranked the…

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#health care #JY provocative question #mediacid #medicare #obamacare #taxes #universal health care #veterans