This is pretty upsetting, having family with type one (genetic, body does not create insulin at all) diabetes. The fact is more than 1 in 4 insulin users will never not need insulin no matter how much weight they lose, and even among t2 diabetics, many will never not have t2 diabetes because it has a huge genetic component as well.
Without insurance their insulin would cost $950 a month.
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It's capitalism. Capitalism will always wind up basically resulting in this sort of thing because it is impossible for it to allocate resources to those who need it the most.
Sure, you will absolutely get social democrats who will try and shore up society with expansive welfare state programs and hell even some liberals who will try to deal with the most blatantly evil effects of capitalism like this and those efforts might even work for a decade or two. The post war construction of welfare states are an example of this (though obviously there is also the fact that the USSR's existence very much made these more palatable to the ruling classes given the alternative) but sooner or later they'll crumble cos capitalism needs them to crumble.
Honestly, it won't happen but for argument's sake even if liberal democracies genuinely took the oncoming climate catastrophe seriously and created a vast, overreaching network of infrastructure and legislation to deal with it, it'd last all of 50 years before the ghouls who run the show asset stripped it and we'd be back to square 1.
That only happened because the USSR was there to point to. We're done with that era of capitalism.
Oh for sure, the presence of the USSR was a huge factor in that as I said and yeah, no way that's coming back.
I hope USSR will come back.
Unfortunately I am pretty sure Russia's current govt would co-opt any sort of desire for a return to the USSR and essentially kill off any genuine left wing project.
There is also a possibility of something like the July Monarchy. Its coat of arms is really something.
Modern succdems are either small and insignificant fringe groups with no possible way of realising their policy or they are psychotic power-hungry liberal ghouls with a folkish branding strategy and a red banner somewhere in the corner.
Something something survival of the fittest. Ftw