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[–] jeffw 82 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This guy wasn’t necessarily denied care but similar things could happen with bans in the US

[–] FuglyDuck 88 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Will happen. The same goes with self-abortions.

And the assholes are okay with that because they’re assholes.

[–] Veraxus 18 points 6 months ago

I feel like calling them “assholes” unfairly defames assholes, but even “murderous fascist monsters” doesn’t adequately convey their sheer, staggering violence and inhumanity.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

They're more than ok with it, they revel in it. This is "god's punishment" or some stupid bronze age bullshit we should've left behind centuries ago.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Facing a long wait for top surgery through New Zealand’s public health care system, a transgender teenager desperate to transition attempted a life-threatening mastectomy on himself.

A lack of funds for private gender-affirming care combined with the “significant psychological stress of having breasts at an upcoming pool party, pushed him to try the surgery himself,”

If you have to wait a year or more for medical care, and you cannot afford to jump the queue by going to a private practice, then I would argue that he is, in fact, being denied care.

Delayed care can absolutely be denied care, even if the delays aren’t intentionally weaponized against the patient.

[–] venusaur 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds like they ultimately found a way to jump the queue.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Omg the worst loophole. They earned it though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately healthcare is expensive and delays are not unusual. Italy has decent public healthcare overall, but my mom was still required to wait 9 months for a cat scan after a suspected stroke. It is the reality of many public facilities where funds get continuously slashed. If people wait for months and months for procedures needed for life-threatening conditions, I don't see how other procedures (which are lower priority I would say) could not be delayed until much more funding is allocated to healthcare (which unfortunately is not very likely...).

[–] FlyingSquid -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

True, but 10 years doesn't seem to be a "queue" problem, I bet there are obstacles of different nature (like hoops to jump, additional agreements to get etc.), which all together lead to 10 years waiting. 9 months it was instead literally just the queue for a single test.

That said, someone who might have had a stroke might be dead in 9 months.