Every single hospital, clinic, dispensary, consult, pharmacy, etc will have multiple-squares-long queues of people who has been letting their problems fester for not being able to pay it.

It will become obvious that the medical infraestructure is deficient.

And of course, libs will froth in rage. Chuds too but who cares about them.

  • ChapoBapo [he/him]
    ·
    4 years ago

    I think about this all the time, especially when people complain about long wait times in countries with universal healthcare. Like imagine a scenario where all healthcare is free, and you come across an ER with a line out the door of people waiting for care. People are upset and impatient. You say aha! I have a marvelous idea to solve this problem. Everyone in line give me $100. If you do not have the money in your pocket in cash right now, leave. "But @ChapoBapo! I do not have $100" someone cries "but my leg is broken!" Too bad asshole, get the fuck out. Everyone would recognize me as a monster. Nobody would accept this. And yet here we are. If you complain about long wait times, and your solution isn't to figure out how to get more doctors, clinics, hospitals, etc. and instead to argue against universal care, you're a literal actual human monster. Face the wall immediately.

    • D61 [any]
      ·
      4 years ago

      .. especially when people complain about long wait times in countries with universal healthcare.

      True story from the USA...

      Living out in the woods I get bit by ticks, one year I actually contracted Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, twice!

      First time was early enough in the week to get into the Veterans Administration medical center, took half a day for blood work, prescription of antibiotics, picking up the prescription and I was only out like 60 bucks for the visit.

      A few months later I had a relapse on Friday evening, when the VA was closed for the weekend. Went to the local private hospital, took me something like 8 hours to actually be seen (I had a fever of 103F) and all they did was put an IV bag in my arm and write a prescription, which couldn't be filled AT THE FUCKING HOSPITAL and charged me $1000 for the privilege (with health insurance that wouldn't pay out because I don't get sick enough to generate enough medical claims to get past the "deductible barrier").

      • ChapoBapo [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        I knew a guy who was hospitalized with RMSF. Scary stuff.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      4 years ago

      Face the wall immediately.

      Exactly, we don't have time for this shit, there are material conditions to improve and a big fucking climate apocalypsis starting. Call me a tankie, I only hear "urgent"