#universal healthcare now

[danu2203]

[hotpotatoshealthjourney]

I’ve woken up feeling worse every single day this week. No idea what is causing all this, and my neurologist is out of town so I can’t even ask until next week. Woken up with new symptoms several days, which is always concerning, especially today when I had the same new symptoms I had yesterday, which means 2 days in a row. That’s usually the standard where they say get it checked out.

I don’t even know if they’d let me have more steroids rn though since they just did that recently, so I’m at least going to wait until my doc is back in town to ask her. I have pt tomorrow and I have no idea if I’m even going to be able to do much of it. I haven’t even been able to shower all week. It’s been very frustrating. It hasn’t been any hotter than the rest of the summer so I don’t think it’s a heat thing. Genuinely no clue.

Not a fan, that much I can tell you. I am so so tired. Been sleeping soooo much but still soooo tired. Gonna probably go take a nap soon. I’ve mostly been sitting here staring off into space doing nothing since I woke up like an hour ago. Can’t focus, can’t even eat cuz it takes too much energy.

On the plus side, my insurance out of pocket max is net, so I’m basically getting free healthcare and meds till the end of the year which is great. Need to schedule a bunch of chiro and massage and acupuncture appointments. Also gonna get prescriptions for all the dme (durable medical equipment) that I need and get it all now while it’s free. Normally insurance would only cover 30% but right now they’ll cover all of it. Time to get the things I need but can’t normally afford! And it lasts until the end of the actual year. This is a huge relief for us cuz medical bills have been insane this year.

Keep sending happy thoughts and asks please. It really does help. Love yall.

[genderascendant]

fuck you american health care system i fucking hate you american health care system

[chaoticcosmos666]

I have no issue with building more hospitals... What I have an issue with is an institution that claims to be a charity and pays it's doctors and nurses and MAs and all the others like shit while building and taking land and having a CEO sitting up in the bigger building downtown like the fat cat they are.

[theoihalioistuff]

Hermes Kriophoros

"[In the city of Tanagra] There are sanctuaries of Hermes Kriophoros (Ram-bearer) and of Hermes Promakhos (Frontline Fighter). They account for the former surname by a story that Hermes averted a pestilence from the city by carrying a ram round the walls; to commemorate this Kalamis made an image of Hermes carrying a ram upon his shoulders. Whichever of the youths is judged to be the most handsome goes round the walls at the feast of Hermes, carrying a lamb on his shoulders." (Paus. 9.22.1)

We know what to do when the next pandemic hits. We are prepared. Assemble the beautiful boys. Bring forth the lambs.

READY THE BEAUTY PAGEANTS!!!

[sordidamok]

The happiest countries have universal healthcare,unemployment benefits, free college, reproductive rights and maternity leave. The rich pay taxes.

They don't have mass shootings, Citizens United or Donald Trump.

[hms-no-fun]

Why do you, as a marxist, talk like a liberal

[millionmovieproject]

[danu2203]

[skyloftian-nutcase]

Finding Light + Snippet (LU in Healthcare)

(@hermitdrabbles56 @squigglywindy @alasse-earfalas)

(AO3 link)

Legend yawned as he entered the emergency department, energy drink in hand. He felt incredibly sluggish and worn out, torn in different directions between multiple shifts. Not to mention yesterday's fiasco - one day off in between multiple stretches of work never felt like enough. It was barely the amount of time needed to just get his head above water most days, and it figured that his one night off was the one that Warriors decided to drunk text him.

He still didn't know what was wrong with his new friend. People made dumb decisions and got wasted all the time, and it wouldn't surprise him if Wars was one of those people, but in the car... it had definitely seemed like there was more to it.

Sighing, Legend took another swig of his energy drink, pinching his nose to fight the oncoming headache. He didn't have energy to parse this out. All he knew was that Warriors was gone before he'd gotten up the next day. The military nurse had folded the blanket and left a thank you note and hadn't said two words to him since, despite a text he'd sent this afternoon.

Passing by the waiting room, Legend saw that there was a large group of people waiting. Dread weighed heavily in his stomach. Great. More fun times cleaning up day shift's mess - a room full of people who had been waiting for hours meant everyone would be annoyed, and they'd have to start doing protocol orders just to get things moving since the doctors were lagging. He hoped he wouldn't get triage.

As he wandered into the staff room, he caught sight of Warriors, who was staring at his phone absentmindedly. Legend immediately made his way over to him.

"Hey," he said quietly.

Wars glanced up, his face neutral, and then he gave a small smile. "Hey. Thanks for last night, sorry to put you in that position."

"Yeah, about that--"

"Did you see the waiting room?" he continued, barreling over Legend's words. "Tonight's going to be busy to start."

Before Legend could continue, the charge nurse entered and started huddle. "Hey, everyone, happy Friday! We have 100 patients in the department, 34 in the waiting room. Staffing's pretty good tonight, we're only down one nurse and two techs. Here are the assignments."

Legend bit his tongue as Warriors was assigned the behavioral health unit, and he himself was assigned the 300 block. He'd hunt his friend down later.

XXX

It was quiet. But it was a different kind of quiet from home. Home was solitary, quiet with gentle nature but also isolation. Beautiful and lonely, peaceful and too still all at once. But here it was a warm quiet, like the comfortable silence one felt while resting with friends and family.

The stained glass spilled colors into the area, bathing him in blues and greens and reds as the sun continued to set. A few candles were lit in around little shrines and statues, and one notable one in the center over the altar.

Sky sighed, trying to breathe in the peace of this place.

He wasn't entirely sure what was wrong with him. Things were better than they used to be. He wasn't spending one day to the next wondering if he'd live or die. He wasn't separated from friends and family. Sure, he was more distant from those he'd bonded with over the last couple years, but... was that... was that what was wrong? That he'd trauma bonded with those people and now they were less prominent in his life?

He didn't know. He was just tired. He was always tired now.

He hated it.

Sun had suggested he go home, but he wasn't sure. She wasn't there anymore anyway, so what was left for him? Instead, he tried looking up somewhere familiar to go, somewhere safe. A cabin in the mountains was familiar, away from people was safe. He loved it there.

But it was so damn quiet. But he wanted quiet. He was exhausted dealing with people but he wanted to be around people. But everything was so new and different here. He'd chosen this city because it was the only place a pilot's position was available, and in such a familiar capacity too. He hadn't...

He hadn't expected to see them. Any of them. But they were so happy to see him, and he hadn't known what to make of that either. Why would they be happy? He'd abandoned them.

He couldn't lie to himself and say that it didn't mean the world to him, though. But he felt guilty about that too, because now they wanted to spend time with him and catch up with him, and he just sat there and soaked up the attention and barely asked anything in return.

He felt like lately he just took and took and took. He had nothing to give.

He had nothing to give.

Sky slid to his knees, leaning heavily on the pew in front of him. Give me light. Give me hope. I can't give to others if I don't have any for myself. Please...

Give me hope. Give me hope.

He didn't know how to fix this. He didn't even know if he could. All he knew was he felt his life draining out of him, like he was bleeding from an invisible wound.

This was so stupid. He had no right to feel this way.

You have every right to feel this way, a voice whispered, a quiet reminder in the hurricane of thoughts in his mind. Sky took a shuddering breath, holding it as his world froze a moment.

Then he huffed out a tired laugh, relenting as he stared at the lit candle. "Fine. You're right."

Didn't make it any easier to deal with, though.

Sky's phone buzzed, and he looked at it distractedly before gazing back at the altar, silently asking for permission. Then he sat on the pew once more, checking his text message.

SKY HI you wanna get ice cream?? just got out of class and it's SO FRIGGING MUGGY EW I NEED ICE CREAM LET'S GET SOME

Sky smiled, Wind's excitement being infectious even through a simple speech bubble. Then he looked back at the candle, watching it flicker gently, before his gaze drifted down to the golden little doorway hidden from view by a veil.

"Thanks," he said softly before getting up to meet with Wind.

XXX

The first thing Hyrule thought when he pulled up to the house was this is going to be a pain to extricate her if she can't walk.

They were dispatched for someone withdrawing from their medication. The woman was reportedly unable to walk. She was on the second floor of a two-story home that had a gravel driveway and uneven paved steps leading up to the front porch.

Just as he was grabbing the stair chair, however, Mo, who had entered first alongside the fire department, waved him off. "Fire's going to help her walk out here. We just need to get the stretcher ready."

Relieved, the medic put the stair chair away in the side compartment of the ambulance and helped his partner prep the stretcher as the firefighters approached with the patient. One of the firefighters was carrying a couple of the woman's supplies - a large pink trash bag filled with items and a purse. As Hyrule and Mo lifted the patient and stretcher into the ambulance, the firefighter deposited the items on the bench seat. Hyrule thanked his fellow first responders and then hopped in the back to assist Mo.

Thankfully, despite the woman's distress and uncomfortable symptoms, she wasn't in dire need. While a trip to the hospital was necessary for her, Hyrule didn't have to be the one to do it. The 12-lead was unremarkable and her vitals were within defined limits. Mo gave him a thumbs up, and Hyrule hopped out of the truck to drive while Mo ran the call. Hyrule merrily listened to the radio, keeping a careful listening ear out in case his partner needed anything, and drove them to the hospital.

Upon their arrival, Hyrule told dispatch they were at the ER, walked to the back of the truck and opened the doors and saw Mo putting the patient's enormous trash bag on her lap. Confused, he was about to ask why his partner didn't just place the bag behind the patient - they had a little cubby behind the back of the stretcher where they could place things, after all. It seemed rude to put that on her lap.

But then Mo placed the purse on the woman as well. And then another bag of belongings. And then a trash bag filled with toiletries. And then a clear bag filled with shampoos and conditioners. And then another bag filled with more clothes.

Hyrule stared as the patient progressively disappeared beneath enough personal items to fill a luggage rack in a hotel - heck, the patient had become the luggage rack in a hotel. Hyrule tried his absolute hardest to not laugh, but the patient was out of sight and he kept making eye contact with Mo, who was looking increasingly more exasperated.

He supposed the firefighters had brought a few more personal items than he'd realized.

As the pair wheeled in their pile of luggage (and somewhere in its midst was their patient), Hyrule was half tempted to tell the charge nurse they were checking in for the night.

It only got better when he realized they were giving report to Legend, whose eyebrows immediately rose to his hairline as they entered.

[caimitos]

saw a post about projecting your ethnicity onto a character and started missing vespa ilkay. so so bad

[burnandblind]

Diverse Unity

Let me be frank: I think any form of bigotry is a sort of ideological fanaticism.

My platform of wanting everyone to be safe, healthy, and free is miles above and beyond genocide.

Period. If you think otherwise, well. You may want to examine that.

I don't mean to be incendiary. I mean to respect the inherent value in all of Life.

I'm truly pro-Life. And pro-Choice.

The right to bodily autonomy and sovereignty. That is what EVERYONE argues for.

Except there are some people - and they are in every demographic - who think others shouldn't have those rights.

It's unethical. Period.

We've been doing this for hundreds of years now. We oppress ourselves, as a species, by our choices. We do it individually, too. We all know this.

Except there are some of us who are what I call "soul sick".

They've experienced relatable pain and trauma. They know how it feels. And they feel justified to inflict that same pain and trauma on others. They give minimal, if any, effort in correcting their behavior. They many times will have families and friends. Some of them who love despite. Some of them who agree to disagree.

...

We are all entitled to our opinions. But this isn't a red versus blue argument.

This is about human rights. There is no argument.

So why is it, in 2024, a supposedly enlightened species such as homo sapiens sapiens is still struggling?

We're too tolerant of intolerance. This is not a case of stupidity. Nor mistake.

If people treated these people as they treated others -- for the same reasons -- they would be enraged.

They're enraged because it is pointed out they are prejudiced for nonsensical reasons.

Let me be frank again: As far as I am aware, no ideology has been as successful as White Supremacy(coupled with Patriarchy*).

White Colonialism has changed the world in a way no empire has before it. Not that I am aware.

I know. I know. Perhaps it's horrible to say. But we're all aware of every other civilization and society -- even indigenous tribes -- who were imperialistic and genocidal.

Why continue, is all I ask? We could truly let bygones be bygones in one way, I think.

What if:

Bi-partisan legislation only applied to those along ideological lines?

Bi-partisan measures were only paid for by their respective parties?

What if we had two presidents, two supreme courts, and everyone just stayed where they were and minded their own business?

What if we allowed two different civilizations to flourish?

I don't think this is any more insane than what we've been doing. Everyone registers to vote, so that makes it easier.

I think many things could happen.

After all: One party would probably get universal basic income, universal healthcare, legalized cannabis, reproductive rights, better human rights etc etc and the other party would... hm. I'm not sure. Guns? (More) Christian Schools?

I wonder how many people would stay Republican then.

[endercoil]

This is kind of related to the last post I reblogged but honestly it’s funny to me how so many people are like. “Go to therapy” now and act like that solves so many problems

Yes therapy can help but I’ve been to multiple therapists who did not help. Even if they tried to, CBT did frankly fuck all for the issues (and it’s even weirder when one tried to get me to use CBT methods to… stop having ADHD symptoms…?)

Like, I have a phobia of the dark, and talking to a therapist barely helped it. The method used was to tell me the fear I felt was only perceived, but the funny thing is, it’s kind of Hard To Tell It’s Only Perceived. That’s kind of the reason it was a phobia for me

What DID help was prozac and a “welp fuck it we ball” mentality.

Like, I’m not saying therapy is bad, but I AM saying that therapy is expensive and sometimes that money can be better used than to talk to a guy who isn’t helpful. I don’t know.

Disclaimers I feel obligated to add:

- since I mentioned medication this also applies to psychiatrists some of them are god awful. I feel like that’s just a trend in medicine that a ton of professionals are god awful.

- I’m not saying CBT is inherently bad or useless. Recognizing thought patterns and changing them is helpful! I’ve just encountered it being used in ways where it wasn’t helpful which is… not great. Especially when it has a price tag attached.

[fireladybuckley]

Did y‘all know that Alberta health services doesn’t cover any cost of CPAP machines? You know, those super critical machines to allow people with obstructive sleep apnea to actually breathe?

So unless my insurance through work will pay for part of it (and we can’t even ask them if they will because their workers are on strike), I have to pay nearly $3000 just to be able to breathe properly at night and actually sleep and not have a heart attack. And even if they do cover it, I’ll still have to front probably at least 1.5k.

Fuck AHS. Fuck the UCP’s attempts at privatizing healthcare and defunding everything they can. This is the future the conservatives want, one where the only people that survive past middle age are the ones that can afford to pay for it.

[fromthegraveyard]

i just love how the articles about the strike happening in my uni rn always fail to mention that the reason we're on strike is bc the uni only has enough money to keep open until october, there are buildings that are LITERALLY falling on top of our heads (one student was seriously hurt by a ceiling lamp falling on them), there are many classrooms indefinitely closed bc of mold, we're at serious risk of losing our lives or being seriously hurt being on campus at night bc there are barely any security guards or lampposts. but sure make us look bad and like we're just lazy students and workers. we're so terrible for getting in the way of classes, ppl should definitely be spending most of their day every day in this super safe and stable place ❤️

[sordidamok]

Programs like this always show the same results - people are better off and better able to participate in life and society in healthy ways when they are financially secure. It's past time to make universal basic income a reality for all Americans.