#American heathcare

[mistprints]

Interesting thought: society was made to protect everyone. Yet with Medicare for all, people always say that it isn’t their problem to deal with it and I guess I see where they’re coming from even if I don’t sgrrr. But imagine- you live in a little village. You guys had a bear problem going on and called a town meeting. Everyone was asked to pitch in a bit of their income to purchase bear repellent that was very effective and that if needed, anyone could use it at any time. But some of your neighbors don’t want to pitch in. They say that they wouldn’t buy bear repellent until they needed it, but wouldn’t just pitch in the extra money to ensure everyone could potentially have it available if they needed. And since not enough people participated, the town decided that everyone would be on their own to buy their own repellent, which costs more than if people collectively pitched in.

Say someone needed it desperately, but they couldn’t afford it on their own. And their neighbors shamed them for not being able to pay for it themselves, called it mooching, even- it’s pretty cut-throat.

But like a tax, everyone paying towards it lowers the cost and has a net benefit for everyone. The collective. It’s how we get things like social security or the fire department or schools. Free Public services like the library. Why can’t something as important as medicine be the same here? In a country that can more than afford it?

[t4t-pathogen]

⚠️TRANS PEOPLE WITH CALIFORNIAN HEALTHCARE: YOUR SURGERIES ARE FREE⚠️

This official page from the California Department of Insurance states "health insurance policies are prohibited from arbitrarily excluding coverage for gender affirmation services including (but not limited to) hormone therapy, mental health services and surgical services."

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS!

[priory-of-stars]

Rant in the tags!

[natbplease]

stands on the street corner holding a stereo over my head blasting this at max volume

[xxtha-blog]

An open letter from American, Canadian, and UK heathcare workers describing the unfathomable conditions within the Gaza strip's medical centers during Israel's on-going genocide.

[stylecouncil]

I hate the american health insurance system like I’m 90 percent sure I can keep my govt heathcare marketplace plan because the insurance my employer offers is way more than 8 point whatever of my monthly income but I’m not sureeee and I don’t want to end up owing a lot of money…..someone make this easier to figure out. maybe I’ll just call and try to ask someone later instead of trying to figure this out on my own. heathcare dot gov give me answers.

[g-r-a-v-e-y-a-r-d]

hate how living under the american heathcare system as a prole means that i just won't ever be able to get vaginoplasty. cant afford to take three months off of work. cant afford the high cost of vaginoplasty even with insurance because it has no guarantee of covering all of it. hate that electrolysis isnt covered by insurance. both of the things i want in order to live my life without fear are barred from me because i dont have thousands of dollars to piss away.

maybe i'll get some piercings so i wont be so fucking depressed.

[myowndesertplaces]

American Heathcare Bullshit:

Gotta love when you get on your partner's health insurance and then find out later that mental health therapy is covered under another insurance company within that company, and your therapist is not "In Network" under that insurance so you'll have to pay the full amount. Oh, she is registered with BCBS just not this other company within the company that you didn't know EVER fucking existed.

[a-wild-things-rambles]

one thing that annoys me about pretty much any media with combat in, is how blasé about head injuries they are.

I hit my head on a bus pole, not even losing consciousness, and 2 months later I'm still getting headaches, I had major speech issues for 10 hours, and I've basically been having one long migrane since.

That was one hit. And I have a thick skull.

The Dr explained to me that a concussion is basically your brain getting bruised. They get worried when it's a brain bleed, when a blood vessel is ruptured. To see if its a brain bleed you need to have a brain scan. I was to young for it to be worth the high radiation to the brain. If it is a brain bleed, I was told the answer would be neurosurgery.

My friend has his head slammed into a locker. He had a brain bleed. They scanned him and said it wasn't bad enough to risk neurosurgery. He still suffers from migrains and at one point only attended one day in 4 months. For a meeting. He's still struggling, years later.

What I'm trying to say is that damage to the head can be lifealtering even for relatively small damage. If I my head hit that pole harder I could have had permanent speech issues. I could have lost consciousness. Just because of standing up on a bus going round a turn.

Every person batman hits in the head is at risk of death or brain damage. Every person unconscious for more than a few minutes is at risk of death and major permanent brain damage. It's not safe or calculated, you can't calculate it. Brain damage is notorious fickle. The most you can do is fuiger out what is most likely to be affected based on where a person was hit.

The aim of hitting a person in the head is to knock them out or to affect their cognitive abilities.

The aim of hitting a person in the head is to give them brain damage.

Brain damage that could kill them. That will put them out of work for weeks maybe even years. That could affect them for the rest of their lives. It could take their speech, their ability to think, to emote.

But for batman it's the better option. It's the option that's touted as better than guns and killing.

Giving people brain damage. Because their poor and criminals.

It makes me laugh now when people say that batman doesn't kill. That he doesn't do permanent damage.

Look it's fiction I get it. But frankly forget how the people he hurts have to subject themselves to the american heathcare system. Forget the people that will be disproportionately targeted. If you hit somone in the head you should acknowledge that anything from a headache to death could happen.

Hell it's actually happened in the comics. Batman punched guy gardener so hard it gave him brain damage and a major personality change.

But its just ha ha batman punched green lantern.

[kurulover]

Say what you will about American Heathcare (the song), I need to bathe in it every once in a while.

[scottguy]

It unbelievable to me that an American can call for the END of DEMOCRACY out loud in a roomful of other Americans ... and be cheered for it.

These suposedly "freedom loving" Republicans are literally cheering for the END of THEIR OWN FREEDOMS.

There will be no freedom under Trump's Nazi-like rule.

Like Republicans on all other issues like gun violence, they've never experienced it personally, so it can't be bad.

But imagine, do you think there were many pro-Hitler voices in Germany in 1944 when the country had been bombed into rubble? They gave Hitler all the power a few years before that and it ruined EVERYONES' lives.

Republicans, you will hate tyranny in America too. A Nazi-like Trump just MIGHT come for your guns! He will because...

You may soon want a violent anti- Republican revolution because Republicans had stolen your Social Security, your Medicare, or your heathcare plan, and/or driven up the cost of everything and put your kids on the street.

You'd want your freedoms back!

But you will have given Trump ALP the power, even to come and confiscate your guns. Voting won't stop him because votes are just for show under tyranny.

You think dictatorship sounds GREAT, like you think you'll get your way on every issue...

but ONLY when it serves the powerful. When the dictator class turns against you, which they WILL, because they WON'T NEED YOU ANYMORE. They will come after you too and they will screw your life hard for money. You know how the rich are.

But, there won't be a damn thing left to do about it because you gave away American democracy.

We've been proud of American democracy and not having a king-like president for 250 years for good reasons.

Why?

Because democracy = freedom.

That hasn't changed.

You're just kidding yourself that having a dictator will have no tragic consequences for your OWN life.

It will. It's inevitable. That's how unchecked power and greed always work in the long run.

Giving up democracy is the worst possible thing freedm loving Americans can do.

And, we will NOT be ABLE to get democracy back if it happens. They will have the power of the largest armed forces in the world.

Jack Posobiec advocates treason, and the people at CPAC cheer him! Pay attention, America!

[craftherpes]

Solutions

People talk about how we need solutions for so many different problems we have in America. And many of them have a lot of good points. What confuses me is how many people, most of them with very good intentions have looked past what I see as the obvious central problem. 

It’s economic. From addiction to the teacher shortage to obesity to violence, it’s all at least partially economic. We have allowed a small number of people to leverage their money into political power, which they used to bring themselves more money, which they leveraged to get more power, ad infinitum. This is pushing more and more of us into poverty. They set standards/expectations for work that leave us too tired to think and question what we’re hearing, or too burnt out to pay attention to the world outside our little bubble at all. They keep us too stressed about our bills, and if we’re eating this week to figure out.

Yes, I’m here to espouse socialism. 

I just feel that what we need is to actually care about and for each other, and we need to do it on an institutional level. Individual charity isn’t enough, and the fact that it can be used to further an agenda, often instead of actually helping people, makes it not acceptable to me and not enough for our problems. 

Tax the m**herf**king rich and use the money that they’ve stolen from us to build a caring, a useful, a good society, one that works fore more than 10 percent of the population. 

I know that neither party in the American system is on myside in this, and I know we have to work within the system we have. The Dems are certainly a whole lot closer to this than the fascists that the GOP seems to have become. I can’t run. I’m too scattered, I have terrible memory, and I get overwhelmed with too many people around. But if you are better equipped than I am, want to run, and you agree with me, even if you want to run for city council in a town I’ve never heard of, I will happily do everything I can to help. I am good at research, and I’ve been told I’m decent at speechwriting. Hit me up- if I’m still doing my current job, I’ll do it for free. 

(PS My favorite socialist ideas are universal heathcare and universal basic income. The idea that one could survive without being tied to paid work makes my little leftie heart sing.)

[history-of-health-insurance]

60's-70's: Medicare/Medicaid

A major underserved population in the Heathcare system of the 50s was the elderly and low-income who both could not afford insurance, the elderly because of retirement, the low-income because they simply lacked the financial resources. 

President Lyndon B. Johnson was reelected in 1964 with a wide majority in Congress and subsequently felt he had the political strength to tackle healthcare reform as part of his larger project of the “Great Society”, which sought to fight against poverty and inequality prevalent in American society at the time. 

In 1966 LBJ passed Medicare which was major legislative work broken down into three parts.  

First there was Medicare part A which provided hospital coverage for the elderly, over the age of 65, based on social security eligibility and was funded by increased payroll taxes 

Second there was Medicare part B which was a voluntary insurance that provided physician care for the elderly and was funded by both federal taxes and insurance premiums.  

Finally, there was the Medicaid program which provided federal grants to states by matching their expenditures on state programs that provide care for low-income individuals. 

Medicare and Medicaid have since been reformed but to this day provide healthcare to millions of Americans 

[scottguy]

Greed is an illness. The more the rich get, the more they want. It's irrational and damaging. (They don't even care if they create an unlivable climate for their own children.) These are pathologically ill human beings.

Taxes are NOT just for revenue. They are a reasonable restraint on the accumulation of money,

which is power (not "speech"). Taxes are a restraint on greed.

The rich have measurably more now than ever in history and what have they done? Monopolies. Greedflation. Americans dying or impoverished over heathcare.

Now, they're trying to put fascists and christofascists in control to keep working-class people from regaining control.

This isn't just the last stand of white supremacy. This is the last chance of the uberwealthy to prevent the taxes, regulation, and anti-trust action they know is inevitable otherwise. The coalition of racists with religious nuts poisoned by right-wing selfishness has been forty years in the making. Trump was the perfect con-man to complete the plan.

It's just good luck for Americans that Trump is a blitheing idiot.

Tax the rich. That is a VERY American thing to do. Take control back for the working-class.

Screw Republicans who have finally revealed their true colors. At heart the party has no principles other than allegiance to greed and power. They aren't all as bad as Trump but they all tolerate him which demonstrates zero principles. They are ALL willing to LIE* and CHEAT the voters to win.

*e.g. Voter ID laws for no actual good reason except for denying votes of likely Democrats.

[asimpleram]

S’out to American Heathcare which continues to let me down everyday