#and universal healthcare

[toughtink]

there’s a lot of things i would love to change about the usa if i was in charge for a day, but probably the least controversial are:

immediate cessation of daylight savings bs nationally. none of this waiting for individual states to pass laws about it, just the whole thing all at once. whatever side of it we’re on when that happens, that’s how it’s gonna stay.

no more medical ads. why is this normal here!!! a lot of places have this banned already because i’m not a fcking doctor and probably shouldn’t be choosing medicine based on a marketing budget!

billboards outlawed. at minimum we should ditch these out in the countryside, take the vermont approach. but seriously, who would miss these? it’s just one step removed from ads blanketing the sky and i want them GONE.

[mysharona1987]

[politijohn]

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[theconcealedweapon]

Now this would be an actual heartwarming story.

[rejectingrepublicans]

[victusinveritas]

[wilwheaton]

[thehmn]

People rarely talk about this but the reason why countries have universal healthcare is because the powers that be understand that for society to work people have to work so when we or our family get sick it’s important to get us back to health. Harsh but true. It’s the same reason why European countries try to find a balance between work and paid days off. A stressed out worker who ends up crashing is no good in the long run.

Which is why it makes no sense that the US doesn’t have universal healthcare. I had no idea how overworked you guys are until I started watching videos were American’s abroad are baffled by “how little” they are expected to work. Some like it, some miss the grind, but they’re all like “Wtf? Why am I not even allowed to work extra hours?”

Universal healthcare just seems like the logical cynical choice for a society that expects its people to work so much, ya know?

[alwaysbewoke]

[odinsblog]

Trigger warning: death

Question: How does someone as moronic as her keep getting elected?

Answer: “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices.”

[mysharona1987]

Meanwhile in France:

[politijohn]

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Progressive reforms remain popular

[selfmedblves]

WSJ if they were being honest

[ridenwithbiden]

“After the killing of the CEO of United HealthCare,” wrote Moore, “the largest of these billion dollar insurance companies, there was an immediate OUTPOURING of anger toward the health insurance industry. Some people have stepped forward to condemn this anger. I am not one of them.

“The anger is 1000% justified. It is long overdue for the media to cover it. It is not new. It has been boiling. And I’m not going to tamp it down or ask people to shut up. I want to pour gasoline on that anger.”

Moore continued: “Because this anger is not about the killing of a CEO. If everyone who was angry was ready to kill the CEOs, the CEOs would already be dead. That is not what this reaction is about. It is about the mass death and misery – the physical pain, the mental abuse, the medical debt, the bankruptcies in the face of denied claims and denied care and bottomless deductibles on top of ballooning premiums – that this ‘health care’ industry has levied against the American people for decades. With no one standing in their way! Just a government – two broken parties – enabling this INDUSTRY’s theft and, yes, murder.

“And now the press is calling me to ask, ‘Why are people angry, Mike? Do you condemn murder, Mike?’

“Yes, I condemn murder, and that’s why I condemn America’s broken, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral health care industry …”

“But don’t get me wrong. No one needs to die,” added Moore. “In fact, that’s my point. No one needs to die – no one should die because they don’t ‘have’ health insurance. Not one single person should die because their ‘health insurance’ denies their health care in order to make a buck or Thirty Two Billion Bucks.”

[theconcealedweapon]

Insulin is a perfect counter to the "without a profit motive no one will invent anything" bullshit.

The inventors of insulin wanted it to be free and avaliable to everyone who needs it. The inventors invented it without a profit motive.

Then, capitalists inserted themselves as middle men in order to extract profit from it. It's now ridiculously expensive and people need it to live.

People are dying. The tool to save them exists. Capitalists hijack the lifesaving tool and hold it for ransom. Because of that, people die.

Capitalism is pure evil. Capitalists are murderers.