#we need universal Healthcare

[funcoolchickie]

I wish we had universal healthcare including dental and vision care in America. It's ridiculous that we don't. ⚕️🦷👓

[syfja-katterdyr]

I'm sharing this across all my media platforms. Please, even if you don't donate, help get her story out. I didn't mention this in the story but our employer isn't working with her to give her the benefits they offer such as short and long term disability and sick pay. In fact, they denied her short term disability.

[airearthandsunfire]

Something I believe is very insidious about the lack of access to health resources in the USA, is the fact that we know, like we have scientific evidence that COVID changed something in the bodies who were infected. Vaccinated or not, we know a change happened. With the current lack of access to Healthcare in the USA, we will be decades behind cataloging all the waves of changes in our current health statistics. All bcuz people can't go to the doctor bcuz it would mean choosing between their income and their currently okay health.

Without universal Healthcare, this country is extremely vulnerable to being a plague upon the rest of the world, therefore making other countries wonder about letting USA travelers and especially immigrants into their borders.

Without universal Healthcare, the United States will be 50 or 100 years from today, and just beginning to find out that the antidepressants being prescribed in 2020 were actually causing genetic mutations bcuz of interactions with the covid virus. Maybe those mutations end up being helpful, but maybe those mutations end up reversing inborne immunities in modern humans!*

*This is an off the wall and MADE UP example of the kind of information we won't have access to in our lifetime.

Why do I say this? Look at all the smoking ads from before doctors finally pushed back and said "these things cause cancer! You can't keep doing this!" They were advertising cigarettes to CHILDREN, before we knew better. But it still took YEARS before tobacco companies stopped advertising to teenagers. It took YEARS for an effective "stop smoking" campaign informed enough Americans of the dangers that there was FINALLY, BLESSEDLY a market for stop smoking aids (patches, gum, meeting groups, and especially prescription antidepressants).

AFTER I GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL IN 2011 is when CVS Pharmacy, stopped selling tobacco products. Idk if that was a move strictly for their PR image (a health store selling an unhealthy product was kind of frowned upon, but nobody did anything about it).

Our country knew for 50+ years that cigarettes were bad for our health. But it took until sometime in the 20teens for a store to actually say something about it, and stop selling them. Meanwhile, every other store just ate up the profits they left on the table. Some stores started selling them!

Tl;Dr without a universal Healthcare system the United States CAN NOT maintain accurate public health information. There is no way to accurately collect the data necessary as most Americans can not afford to routinely visit any type of doctor, let alone a primary care doctor.

[hms-no-fun]

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

[void-thegod]

We need a new civilization.

[hussyknee]

Idk how people go into social science research knowing that you're anyway going to spend your entire life arguing with wilfully ignorant fuckwits over stuff like "keeping one-tenth of the world's GDP locked up in a handful of people's accounts is bad for a functional economy'', "you shouldn't have to pay money to stay alive", "letting people mind their own business won't hurt you", "knowledge is good actually", "people have the right to do whatever they want with their own bodies", "children are people too", "germs are real", "spreading disease is bad for society", "genocide is bad actually", "letting the government kill people puts everyone in danger because everyone is people", "access to long-distance murder weapons increases the chances of getting murdered", "you can't give a clump of cells the same rights as a human being" ad fucking nauseaum until you die.

[bisexualamy]

i think a lot of ppl who live outside the usa don't get that if someone is insured and their procedure is covered by insurance they still have to pay. like, the insurance does not cover your healthcare it just gives you a discount on your healthcare. and sometimes that discount is care that would've been $10k without insurance is $2k. people cannot afford covered, insured procedures.

[bitchesgetriches]

This story is WILD. And so infuriating.

[thislittlekumquat]

About to go into a long weekend for veterans day in the USA - happy USA military industrial complex hero worship day! Don't forget to celebrate by ripping an american flag in half like you're george von trapp in the sound of music and then burning it to ash. To really get into the holiday season, give every current and former service member you encounter the bird ❤️🤍💙

[ignatius-pennyfeather-ix]

i fucking hate how in the us you have to justify not wanting to have your uterus in your body. like…it’s in my body, and i don’t want it there, you have the skills to take it out please & thank you should be the full discussion. why the absolute fuck is there anymore to it. but nooo impossibile. of course, if you want botulism injected into your face, totally fine!! right away!!

[dykeogenes]

“what to tell a doctor to get an autism diagnosis” “here’s what i learned from realizing i was autistic at 40″ “i would never want a professional diagnosis” “person first language is so regressive” “autism symptoms are only a problem because of ableism” “we dont need treatment” “no autistic person wants a cure” “four doctors told me i couldn’t be autistic so i found a fifth” “autism is an invisible disability” “dont disclose your neurodivergency to employers” “i/dd and autism have nothing to do with each other” “nt parents/advocates have no place in autism communities” “of course im autistic have you heard me talk about horror movies” babe i have nothing in common with any of you

[vamppeach]

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how do I politely tell my boss that she needs to either stop giving me so many hours, give me a 10 dollar raise, or start providing healthcare

[crepuscular-coyote]

There's a fire in my bones; a burning in my lungs

A deep desire to set the world aflame and lead the revolution

You cannot crush us, you cannot erase us

I grip the torch tighter in my jaws

The spirit of rebellion sparks something fierce in my soul

We will not go down without a fight

Blood will be spilled in this war of human rights

There will be death, there will be carnage

But we will honor those who have fallen as we stand victorious

Atop the ashes of those who've wronged us.

[itstimeforstarwars]

I wish I could drop down to part time because I need to write soo many stories.

[renee-mariposa]

Things I learned today:

Leprosy is now also referred to as Hansen’s Disease (I’d love to know the history of that ‘re-branding’, if you will)

Leprosy presents as a rash that is numb or lacking sensation (in the earliest stages of the disease)

Florida has the highest rates of Leprosy in the us. In the year of our lord 2023

There’s been an uptick of cases in Florida this year (!!) leading to the suspicion that leprosy is now endemic in Florida (!!!!)

Leprosy is curable, but the infected person must take a 2- or 3-drug regimen for 1-2 years

I’m just like. 😬😬

[bloodydeanwinchester]

oh wow. just got the bill for when i went to the hospital last week. if i didn’t have health insurance i’d have to pay nearly 15k i think? but because i have health insurance i pay $50 and my insurance pays 4k. i didn’t even stay for more than 5 hours. got some drugs, blood work, and a ct scan and im sure this covers the cost of the doctor who saw me and the nurse who helped me. this is insane how could anyone who doesn’t have insurance ever afford this???? and it wasn’t even like a major hospital visit…..