#Universal Payer

[hotcupoteckla]

This guy^^ (RoaringKitty/Deep Fucking Value, A+ internet handles, btw) believed in a company Against Corporate Predictions so hard,

He Crashed The Corpos with the power of Gamers Acting Collectively So Hard, the Corpos demanded Congress to an Investigation about it.

For $5.50 on Monday, you too can start Forcing a Publically Owned, Universal Payer Option For Healthcare.

All you have to do is buy a .01 piece of a share, and just hang onto it. No matter What.

Take Their Shit.

Make them beg Congress to interfere again.

Reasearch the options they give you for CEO.

Submit options to the Board if they only give shit back.

Tell the Board they Suck with the comments on your votes.

It's okay if you lose a little money, because it means they're losing even more than you did.

Take their Stock, and watch Them Burn 🔥 😤 🔥

United Healthcare CEO gets whacked, and the shills are talking about "Violence didn't solve anything! They're just going to hire another CEO."

BITCH, SHAREHOLDERS VOTE FOR THOSE - the C level board finds a bunch of candidates to promote and then

Sends a little notice to your fidelity account saying some bs like: "EMERGENCY VOTE! PICK OUR NEW CEO BY TUESDAY!!"

And then you go onto Fidelity or Vanguard or wherever and your stocks you own get counted as one vote for each share.

Here's the kicker. UHC might be having a firesale.

They're getting a lot of bad publicity right now.

Nobody liked the CEO nor the Ai they're being forced by the board to invest in.

So they're selling their shares.

So you can buy one.

For cheap.

And follow up on the funniest shit alive and break their shit.

You can buy .01 shares for the price of a coffee!

Gamestop those bitches!

[flock-of-cassowaries]

On this day, we celebrate the second-best thing the Sutherland-Douglas family has ever given us.

It’s not quite as big a contribution as public healthcare.

But nonetheless very good.

[isawthismeme]

[specialagentartemis]

it has been seven months and my insurance STILL is asking me "are you SURE your surgery wasn't due to a car accident we can bill someone else for? are you sure??? we're not gonna pay the whole thing till we're sure you're SURE"

[rainbowpopeworld]

That’s one way to move the Overton Window

[theculturedmarxist]

[iheartvelma]

Lifting points from the comments:

Poor health as a moral failing stems from Calvinism / Puritan philosophy that reinforces the idea of a natural hierarchy of people, with the richest / healthiest at the top because God likes them better. (Burkean conservatism is Calvinism Lite, promoting a natural ruling aristocracy but not ‘anointed by God’)

Cultural racism and classism has been a barrier to any progress towards universal healthcare, because some people cannot stand the idea of those people getting access to Nice Things. A permanent underclass is again a Calvinistic construction, and white supremacy in America leans on Calvinist concepts for validation, whether consciously or unconsciously.

It’s awfully convenient that these literally religious concepts are trotted out to make people feel guilty for taking even their legally allotted sick days, PTO days and vacation.

By the way - check your local labor laws! In Illinois, for instance, it’s mandatory to give employees PAID time off that they can use FOR ANY REASON, and it never expires, so you can accrue more over time. You can accrue up to one week of PTO (40 hours) per year, which can roll over.

part of the reason America still doesn’t have universal healthcare is that a large portion of the healthy population consciously or subconsciously believes that being sick is somehow a moral failing. someone randomly has a heart attack at age 30 and there are people like “well, you should have eaten better, exercised more and drank less” like a medical emergency is proof you were living a life of sloth and sin and it could never happen to them. 

[blasphemister]

“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.” ― Paul Farmer

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.” ― Paul Farmer

“Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ” ― Paul Farmer

[caseuoiseau]

So now, lemme get this straight.

Since Hanscom and New London are so close to each other, you're just gonna...fly that rental jet under 4000 feet the entire way?

I mean, it's not as bad as the time another jet from one of the RI airports to Hanscom fucking strafed our house at 1500 feet at midnight (since this was never overhead,, but close enough that the turbine whine got my attention), but it's in my top 10 Flying Bastards.

Hey, you know what would have been better than taking a 20 minute flight in a private jet, polluting the fuck out of shit? Maybe renting a really comfortable limo and being driven the 2 hours?

This is WELL UNDER the Day Trip Distance Threshold, my guy, wyd.

[foreverlogical]

The Guys Who Killed Toys R Us are Coming for Doctors

[resistance-is-imperative]

Insurance is legalized racketeering, old-school “paying the biggest bully for protection” that never comes because, guess what, the bully doesn’t care about you.

It’s a nice scam.

Abolish for-profit health care insurance.

[masgwi]

When our minister of health here in B.C. heard that the Supreme Court of Canada had refused to hear Dr. David Day’s appeal of a court ruling that prevents patients from accessing private health-care services, he was over the moon with joy. “For profit” health care was again rejected, he exulted.

For those of us who want the freedom to choose however, it is not about profit but about loss.

[wanderingandfound]

Apparently the pharmacy that does my one easy, cheap, not highly controlled, always insurance-approved medication doesn't do automatic refills, which explains why my most recent refill didn't arrive over the last two weeks, but doesn't explain where the previous refill came from, because I don't remember requesting it.

[the-qalankhais-sweetheart]

Friendly reminder this extends to therapies you might not expect.

This extends to occupational therapy.

This extends to speech-language pathology.

This extends to physical therapy.

This extends to psychotherapy.

You wanna know how much we have to fight insurance companies in this field? Craft our words just so to make it damn clear that YES, this client ABSOLUTELY needs this therapy and NO, his speech or language disorder isn't just something that he'll magically grow out of/he'll magically heal from?

You wanna know how we have to prioritize pushing through certain assessments over others to make sure the insurance company won't just find an excuse to deny it? That freaking Tricare, the insurance that is supposed to cover our military, restricts the heck out of how many visits your child can have and will require you to have frequent re-assessments *just to "make sure"* your child hasn't just magically progressed within a ridiculously short period of time?

It's fucked up. A child could legitimately need therapy, but be "borderline" on an assessment (and normed assessments aren't infallible - that's why clinical judgement is a thing, baybee!) and you have to advocate like a lawyer to make damn sure they're not denied.

We have families who cancel services because they can't afford it or have to pay week to week and come week to week. You're right - this is absolutely detrimental to the client's progress.

But the insurance company doesn't give a rat's ass about whether or not someone can communicate and have good quality of life.

They just want to make sure they can squeeze out every red cent from your bones.

Our system is broken.  It is cruel.  It is dehumanizing, degrading, and it’s vile nature is so, so unnecessary.

We need universal healthcare today in America.  We needed it 40 years ago.  It’s cheaper, it’s simpler, it’s more efficient, it’s more effective and it is so, so, so much less cruel than what we have.

Additional sources/references:

Universal Healthcare Cost in America would be cheaper by trillions of dollars

The US has worse life expectancies than socialized healthcare countries

We have worse generalized healthcare results

We have the most expensive care

Our system is so cruel and unique that doctors from other countries literally can’t believe what happens here

I can’t tell you where or how to activate to help solve this.  There are politicians, groups, and activists pushing for this in so many ways.  I can tell you when, though.

Now.

[i-like-swiss-cheese]

Friendly Reminder That

-58,000 Americans died in the Vietnam War

-50,000 Americans die yearly of bad health insurance

-Schoolchildren learn all about the Vietnam war (for me it was in the 4th grade, but I imagine outside of TN it is different)

-There are a total of 25 Vietnam War memorials in the US (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vietnam_War_monuments_and_memorials)

-There are no memorials to people with bad health insurance

-all being equal, 22 bad healthcare memorials should be erected every year

-the leading cause of bankruptcy is bad health insurance

-32 out of the 33 "Developed" countries have universal/single payer healthcare

I spent an entire semester of school learning about the Vietnam war when I was only 9 years old. And yet, that same year almost as many people died of health insurance. I never learned what that was in school and to this day I have never been taught anything about health insurance, but I have had a further 5 lessons on/near the topic of The Vietnam War. If we call the Vietnam war a tragedy here in America (which we should, most of those soldiers were drafted and forced into fighting to the death for a war they did not want to fight), then we should regard health insurance companies as the worst thing to happen to this country. Deny. Defend. Depose. I have seen many friends lose loved ones to bad health insurance, and it breaks them because there was something they could have done. THEIR LOVED ONE WOULD STILL BE AROUND IF THEY WERE RICH. Murder is murder, no matter if its done by the stroke of a pen or the click of a pistol, and yet one is 2.5x more frequent than the other, and 100% more legal. Free Luigi. And if you don't, then lock up every single one of those dirty rats that kill people for profit and buy politicians all so they can upgrade their 5th yacht.

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