Shit is fucking bonkers. Richest country in the history of mankind makes its people pay to live and get educated. Fuck. Only developed country that does it. I’m convinced that our government hates our guts and wants us all dead.
Nope. They want us just alive enough to increase “the domestic supply of infants” to fully stock both their workforce and the military.
Keeping you alive “long enough”. Your productive years of making children aren’t the years where you need the most healthcare. It’s designed to get young people to overpay and old people to overpay and still die
I’ve been waiting for more people to realize this. The rich will always make the mistake of underestimating the poor.
By expanding the groups range, you increase their numbers dramatically, eventually they’ll realize they can eat you alive.
And all their bunkers become fancy soup cans, and there’s always a can opener.
And half of them are voting for candidates that openly want to make things worse.
There was a joke in the old Duck Tales cartoon about this.
One of Scrooge McDuck’s nephews was chastising his uncle for being needlessly frugal. “Why won’t you pay for this? You’re the richest duck in the world!”
Scrooge replied “And how do you think I got to be the richest?”
Oligarchs convincing We the People to vote for representatives who maintain systems of indifference and cruelty is how we got so damn rich to begin with.
That military budget is literally fucking us sideways. I’d be ok with it if it were used for the good of this world, it’s literally used to kill brown people and children.
I’m 51. I still list my pediatrician who I am fairly certain died thirty years ago. They don’t check.
Y’all should give this state healthcare stuff a shot. It’s nice over here in Massachusetts.
Unfortunately most people don’t make enough to live in (urban) Massachussets :) if they did, us outsiders would colonize the fuck out of it immediately… with absolutely no remorse too.
Now, you might say to get my own state healthcare: however, counterpoint, I live in Georgia and we’ll probably not get there until collapse from the climate apocalypse has already started. Won’t stop me from trying…
This happens in Canada too, you just extra fucked in the US because you also have to pay up when you go to a shitty walk-in.
I wish there was an easier way for foreign doctors, nurses, and medical staff to upskill, retrain, or otherwise have their credentials recognized so that they can continue in the medical field.
I’ve spoken to so many people (and their acquaintances) who can’t afford the money or time it would take to start over to become credentialed in engineering, law, and medicine. Agreements like the Sydney Accord help, but they don’t fix the problem.
Why not improve working conditions so we aren’t losing doctors who have trained here? They’re already trained in our system
Mostly because they’re deliberately being made to leave the system so that it can be replaced by an worse American like system. For the reich to profit from.
We can do both, but Canada and the US get a lot of talented immigrants that end up working in low-wage jobs that aren’t taking full advantage of their existing skills. The system is so strained that we need a multi-pronged approach to fill in the gaps.
I’d love for residency programs to be overhauled to allow for changes to the matching system and for working hours to be reduced, if possible. I think demanding 80-hour work weeks from the least paid and least experienced doctors is a recipe for mistakes and burnout.
Not only that, but the way that visa sponsorship and the citizenship process can absolutely fuck you over is absolutely horrifying.
I have a family friend who immigrated for an engineering role at a consulting firm. The job was going really well, and he wanted to stay in the US, so he was getting ready to start the citizenship process once he hit the 5 year mark. About 6 months before the 5 year mark, the company let him go, and he had to scramble within the 60 day grace period to find a new employer who was willing to keep sponsoring his visa, or else he’d have to leave the US.
You know you’re in a first world country when the GDP to life expectancy curve goes brrr. Except in the US where capitalism is a death cult. Why increase lifespans when profits can always go higher? Something something trickle down.