Shit is fucking bonkers. Richest country in the history of mankind makes its people pay to live and get educated. Fuck. Only developed country that does it. I'm convinced that our government hates our guts and wants us all dead.
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
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Nope. They want us just alive enough to increase โthe domestic supply of infantsโ to fully stock both their workforce and the military.
Keeping you alive "long enough". Your productive years of making children aren't the years where you need the most healthcare. It's designed to get young people to overpay and old people to overpay and still die
Are we Sparta?
There are a lot of people who really wish we were, and they have power, and money.
Someone should let them know that's not fun.
As long as they get to be the Spartans, and not the Helots, they will be fine with it.
I'm too rusty on history to know about it. Either way, I've been to a Walmart with times to know we're not Sparta.
Iโve been waiting for more people to realize this. The rich will always make the mistake of underestimating the poor.
By expanding the groups range, you increase their numbers dramatically, eventually theyโll realize they can eat you alive.
And all their bunkers become fancy soup cans, and thereโs always a can opener.
Rusty, Iโm a big fan.
Youโre too kind, thank you.
Mmmmmmm yummy fucking soup. I love that kind of soup. When?
And half of them are voting for candidates that openly want to make things worse.
That's cultists doing cultist shit. They know full well what they're voting for is bad for the country.
There was a joke in the old Duck Tales cartoon about this.
One of Scrooge McDuckโs nephews was chastising his uncle for being needlessly frugal. โWhy wonโt you pay for this? Youโre the richest duck in the world!โ
Scrooge replied โAnd how do you think I got to be the richest?โ
Oligarchs convincing We the People to vote for representatives who maintain systems of indifference and cruelty is how we got so damn rich to begin with.
Richest country for whom?
Shit bezos and Elon Schmuck
One percent of the military budget. It's all you need.
That military budget is literally fucking us sideways. I'd be ok with it if it were used for the good of this world, it's literally used to kill brown people and children.
For control of resources. Murder to "protect American interests". They do say why they do it. What is America really interested in? Wealth consolidation for the ultra wealthy.
It's the richest country because they nickel and dime it's people
Mate. Iโm from what the hell!
I'm from a shitty country in the middle East, and we had free healthcare. My brother tells me they still have it and it's gotten even better now.
I'm 51. I still list my pediatrician who I am fairly certain died thirty years ago. They don't check.
Well the point is to communicate with your primary things like vaccination records so if you don't have one you can literally just say that.
Y'all should give this state healthcare stuff a shot. It's nice over here in Massachusetts.
Unfortunately most people don't make enough to live in (urban) Massachussets :) if they did, us outsiders would colonize the fuck out of it immediately... with absolutely no remorse too.
Now, you might say to get my own state healthcare: however, counterpoint, I live in Georgia and we'll probably not get there until collapse from the climate apocalypse has already started. Won't stop me from trying...
You know youโre in a first world country when the GDP to life expectancy curve goes brrr. Except in the US where capitalism is a death cult. Why increase lifespans when profits can always go higher? Something something trickle down.
Dr. Jameson (or insert your preferred distilled poison of choice).
I go between dr. Daniels and dr. Evans
If it makes you feel any better (well aware it will not), I've not had a consistent NHS GP for a good 15-20 years, and it's for the same reason - fewer doctors cost less money, and private for profit companies running our healthcare (in many cases, the very same people, since many of the companies buying up the NHS are American insurers) only care about one thing, and it isn't healthcare.
I don't even know those letters.
National Health Service general practitioner (UK I believe)
National Hotrod Society General Practitioner
Uhh. I haven't visted a doctor for a check up since I was 18. Which was 14 years ago. I have only used healthcare when I crushed my hand at work. In which my company paid for. I have never gone to a walk in, I have never gotten a prescription despite getting bronchitis and pneumonia every year. Haven't gotten to the doctor for the 3 times I had food poison or the flu. It is costly, it takes time, I work night and sleep during day, and I still pay health insurance(50$ a week and 50$ a month for dental) in which I have to pay to visit doctors and pay until I hit a deductible