#usamerican healthcare

[bat-kidsarebi-kids]

i’m not saying i condone violence or murder i’m just saying if the fucks in charge of the state of privatized US healthcare just happened to disa—you know what actually i am saying i condone violent murder who wants to come with me and bathe in the blood of HMOs and HSAs and HRAs and everyone who has ever profited off our misery and sickness until all that’s left is basic fucking universal healthcare

[hms-no-fun]

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

[weedle-testaburger]

tbh it's extremely humanising to know someone from a Bad Country (tm) and be reminded that yes there are actually normal people who live there

[devilfic]

good news: I have a full time job!

bad news: I have a full time job

[lil-gingerbread-queen]

Some olympian athletes (young, probably first olympic, often usamericans) complain like a spoiled brat about the Olympic Village, and how it's not a 5 stars hotel, as if that's not how the athletes have ALWAYS been treated at the Games, because it's not 20 teams of 40 players and their staffs that are being housed (to compare it to world championships for football or rugby), but hundred of athletes (more than 2000 athletes officially) and their staffs from hundred of countries. And the hotels are for tourists, for spectators, or do you not want people to not come to the games? These games are extremely expensive, let's not make them more because you are a lil baby that need staff to make your bed. The cardboard beds exist to not create more waste than what the games already produce (imagine buying more than 2000 beds to only be used for a month and than discarded... Every 2 years...) THEY ARE ATHLETES WHO HAVE RUN WITH NO SHOES, AND YOU ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT BUYING TOILET PAPER?! And I have seen so many comments saying awful shit about how 3rd world countries shouldn't participate so the lil usamericans can have a better treatment, and that's unacceptable. The games are about unity between the nations, the goal is not to win, it's to participate. To be together. It is always beautiful to see these countries being able to send their athletes to compete. They deserve their place here as much as any 1st world countries' athletes, they have work so hard to be here. Their whole fucking country gave money sometimes to help them have the equipment for the games. You're so spoiled you cannot even comprehend how privileged you are. "This is cheating to make France wins!" I literally know a French olympian. She has the same age as me, she is the daughter of an ex-colleague of my mother, so I saw her grow up and train to be an olympian. I know how French athletes are treated, and it's not good. What you are getting rn at the Olympic is better than what they get all year long. Damn, one of our best athletes who got multiple olympic medals in his career RAN NAKED IN THE STREET to find a sponsor so he could continue to be an athlete, because he had no money.

I am SO mad because, as a French, I know the REAL issues with these games. But will they talk about them? NO. It's only about their ass and being like "I deserve better because I'm an Olympian, I'm better than everyone!". DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY STUDENTS WERE KICKED OUT TO HOUSE COPS FOR THIS EVENT? Where are they suppose to go when everything cost all your organs rn in Paris? DO YOU KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE PARIS IS FOR PARISIANS DURING THIS EVENT? It cost more than 100€ every week for a parisian to go to work by metro rn. DO YOU KNOW PARISIANS DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO GO WHEREVER THEY PLEASE IN THEIR OWN CITY FOR THIS EVENT? They have to ask for a pass and it can be refused. They were asked to not leave their house as much as possible. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE KICKED OUT SO THEIR LANDLORDS COULD RENT THEIR PLACE ON AIRBNB FOR AN EXPENSIVE ASS PRICE FOR THIS EVENT? Same as the students, where do they go? DO YOU KNOW THEY DEPORTED HOMELESS PEOPLE, WHICH MEANS CHILDREN BECAUSE WE HAVE HOMELESS CHILDREN, OUT OF PARIS FOR THIS EVENT? They forced them into bus to other cities, so Paris could be "clean". No, they are not housed, they are still homeless. DO YOU KNOW SOME SHOPS WERE FORCED TO CLOSE FOR THIS EVENT BECAUSE THEY WERE JUDGED NOT "GOOD ENOUGH" FOR THE EVENT? This includes the small book stores at the edges of the Seine selling vintage books, which is one of the most classic thing about Paris. How are these people suppose to survive without making a dime for a whole month? DO YOU KNOW THAT CORALS WERE DESTROYED FOR THIS EVENT? DO YOU KNOW THAT FACIAL RECOGNITION CAMERAS HAVE BEEN PUT IN PLACE FOR THIS EVENT? DO YOU KNOW MOST OF THE STAFF FOR THE EVENT ARE VOLUNTEERS, WICH MEANS THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE PAID A DIME AND WORK AWFUL HOURS, ALL BECAUSE THEY WERE MANIPULATED? DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE POVERTY CRISIS WE ARE GOING THROUGH IN FRANCE RN WHILE THEY PLANNED OLYMPIC GAMES FOR THE RICH ONLY?

They only give a fuck about shaming France to their own benefit, they never give a fuck about the people. We are going to ruin these games, and we do not feel bad for y'all ass. Cry about the cardboard beds, see how you manage the trash cans not being emptied (garbage collectors are on strike during the event, so nobody is going to do that) and people launching pavement, our national sport since 1789.

[thenearsightedmicroraptor]

The dentist took the equivalent of 200 dollars to conclude that I needed to get two wisdom teeth removed and they want 700 dollars More to actually do it ... but at least my wife's soft little cat is now up against my arm ....

[daggersandarrows]

just remembered about the "friend" who called me an idiot and stopped talking to me because i refused to include nurses in acab.

like...yeah these two groups have power over the vulnerable that they will abuse. yes nurses can and will harm people. tell me. which one of these groups has state sponsored guns, riot gear, and legal invulnerability against being brought to justice??? which one of these professions was invented to recapture escaped slaves????

[woodsfae]

Walking around yesterday, talking with my partner, I realized that I get to live, now.

My whole life, whenever I said I didn't want kids, I was told that it was inevitable. That someday, I would end up pregnant and without access to abortion. But I knew I would not have a child. I would not birth a fucking baby. I knew if I was ever in need of an abortion and couldn't access one, that I would, as a form of protest, publicly commit suicide.

Till yesterday, I hadn't realized that was weighing on me. I had internalized that one day, I would have to die as the last choice I could ever make to assert my bodily autonomy.

But today I woke up and thought - I get to live, I get to live, I get to live.

[criminal-sen]

'Harhar we should have a badge that says Not American' eat shit and die, how about that

[watermelinoe]

such a large portion of the disabled community is some flavor of trans which is a shame bc the trans community is so overtly hostile to disabled women and our needs, and trans ideology is diametrically opposed to ethical, feminist medicine. at the same time radfem spaces can be very unwelcoming to disabled women, but it's also the only space where we're even allowed to mention female-specific healthcare, so where do we go

[dirt-grub]

Also with the unwra post idc if this is insensitive but check how much you actually need ur money. I had people when I was homeless he like hm I don’t want to run out of my college meal plan that my parents pay for so I can’t buy you food :( (ps, they never ran out of it- they always scrambled the last week to use it all on crap and candy bc it didn’t transfer to the next semester. Also they had fucking money elsewhere. And if they didn’t they had family who would pay for food/cook for them. And bought themselves shit like band tickets because to them they don’t see that as an optional expense.) like. It’s ultimately your money and your decision and I can’t take it away from you but really, if you aren’t living in a tent you could probably donate a couple dollars.

I’m not gonna act like I don’t spend any money uselessly on myself, I do, but there are so many people way more well off than me who act like they’re not. I do my clicks because it costs me nothing and at the end of the month if I have stuff left over I’ll donate e-sims. If everyone who makes more than me did that it would be a crazy help. If everyone who made as much as me did that it would help.

I’m getting a tax return soon and I’m gonna use a bit of it to try and startup my co-op so I can generate more money in the long term to take care of my friends who are barely making it and the rest is going to unrwa. I’m kind of paycheck to paycheck but at least I’m alive. I’m surviving. I’m fed and housed. My medical bills are up to date. I’ll continue to live, probably for a long time. I know that for me, in the long run it won’t matter. The men, women, and children in Gaza? They could all be gone tomorrow.

Yes, this is a guilt trip. but sometimes guilt is necessary to get people to move their ass.

[beau-rebloga-coisas]

Whenever USAmericans say that biden is leaning left I gotta laugh because that isn't a leftist. If an average centrist saw brazilian aid polices they would die from cardiac arrest. If they saw our healthcare they would fall down foaming by the mouth. If they saw our job laws they would start speaking in tongues and throwing up.

[luckystrike-x]

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[fraddit]

Reasonably certain that my tear duct is infected and I am not enjoying it.

[f1ghtsoftly]

God western europeans need to be knocked down a peg jesus christ they are all so annoying

[skin-slave]

Insurance coverage?

Why doesn't it, then???