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  • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yup. Housing, wages, it all becomes incredibly transparent when you just let yourself see the very obvious power dynamics.

    To me it’s wild that, even when you have insurance in the u.s., doctors and hospitals are still operating on the profit motive. Like, I would never trust a doctor who’s operating on the profit motive haha I don’t even trust, like, someone selling sunglasses who’s operating on the profit motive. I really can’t believe that people believe in that shit, frankly. It’s incredibly naive.

    • gayhobbes [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      You want to know something funny? Doctors absolutely operate on profit motive but they HATE when you treat them like a consumer product. I asked for a refund one time and they got really upset, and I told them they'd made me wait too long and I needed to go somewhere else. Infuriated them to no end. Reported another to their board for bad bedside manner and ruined his fucking month. I wish more of us did that, if we did they'd push for universal healthcare a lot faster.

      • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Hahaha that's hilarious. A 'consumer rights movement' for 'conumers of health care' would be hilarious, and based. That's really funny hahaha

        • gayhobbes [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Oh and it absolutely pisses them off. There was already a bill passed where hospitals have to publish a schedule of charges and they're loath to do so because that means they essentially have to admit they have no standardized billing.

          • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
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            4 years ago

            God, that's so scummy. I picture a used car salesperson just eyeing up the next mark, tryin' to figure how much they can squeeze out of them.

            Except they're eyeing up how desperate you are to have functioning organs haha damn. Never have I been more in favour of incrementalism than on this, tbh. Every shitty little reform that protects my american comrade's even a little more is just fine with me

            • gayhobbes [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              100%. And the worst of it is you really can't price shop because, y'know, you need fucking healthcare.

              • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
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                4 years ago

                You should know I constantly advocate that Canada should abolish health cards, and we should supply health care to any comrade who happens to be here. If I could lend you my health card for medical purposes without doxing myself, I would o7

                Excuse me doc, I know I will bleed out in two hours, but I really just need your rate so I can run across town and compare :angery:

                • gayhobbes [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Literally just had this talk with my husband this morning--if he or I get sick, we are crossing the border because even without the health card we can afford your ridiculously cheap healthcare more than we ever could in America.

                  • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
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                    4 years ago

                    Hahaha I forgot about that part altogether; even if you just buy healthcare here, it’s cheaper. Gotta love that single-payer negotiation with unions!

                    I understand that american health care is the most expensive in the world, and also doesn’t provide quite as good health outcomes as the rest of the ‘developed’ world.

                    Take it from me: you are both more than welcome to visit, any time, to buy cheap health care.

                    Did you know that Canada is Cuba’s biggest export partner? And guess what one of the main things we buy from them is. Yep, medicine haha :heart-sickle:

                    • gayhobbes [he/him]
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                      4 years ago

                      If we lived closer to Cuba we'd certainly just go there. I remember my friend broke his leg hiking in Canada and ended up paying $75 for all his healthcare. It would have been $15,000 in the US, and I am not kidding.

                      • Gorn [they/them,he/him]
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                        4 years ago

                        That price difference is just too much for me. It’s fucking baffling, and infuriating. That was an early part of my pilling from straight anarchist to non-denominational communist, was seeing Sicko. And the americans go to Cuba and get a 60 dollar puffer for 60 cents, and all this free care from the doctors.

                        Socialism is, just, so obviously superior aha it’s inarguable. $15,000 dollars for a 75$ procedure. 0.5% the price here for the same thing like ten feet over the border. Death to america, long live americans :heart-sickle: