YourHuckleberry

These aren't social interactions. Gotta go to the specialist doctor that's accepting new patients, and takes our insurance.

The AMA is officially opposed to single payer healthcare. Maybe it wouldn't make a huge difference, but I think it could change a few minds if the body who represents all doctors in the US didn't have the stance that we all just need more and better insurance.

This is from the American Medical Association. A body composed of some 270 thousand medical professionals.

Find out how the ACA should be improved, and why improving the ACA is preferable to pursuing Medicare-for-All:

://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/patient-support-advocacy/ama-vision-health-care-reform

Doctors aren't a different species my dude, they have the same capacity for assholery.

The AMA is officially opposed to a single payer system. I can't make it any clearer than that. The body of and for doctors thinks the problem is that we just need to get more insurance. Sure there are some who oppose that, and it's maybe even close to 50/50, but that still leaves a lot of doctors who like the status quo.

Woosh? I'm paraphrasing for comedic effect, but the sentiment was the same. I brought up socialized medicine and the doctor bemoaned medicare because the payouts to are too low. "I can't run a business on medicare patients." Is probably closest to what one actually said. You gotta read between the lines.

I live in Texas, where even the doctors are right wing nutjobs. Also, I'm paraphrasing for comedic effect.

I'd have to see further sources on this. It sounds speculative. The open pit mine I visited this summer in Arizona says they have 50 years of easily extractable ore at current rates. That was just one mine, there are others with similar or larger unrecovered deposits. There are also vast underground deposits with proposed mines awaiting approval. It's worth noting the environmental impact of these mines. The one I was at is a huge ugly scar on an otherwise beautiful landscape.

Summation of conversations I've had with a doctor about the healthcare system.

Doctor: "The system needs fixing."

Me: "Agreed, we need to socialize the healthcare system."

Doctor:"Not like that, I still wanna be rich!"

It's been a while, but I have a Coffee Sock. It wasnt easy to clean though so I stopped using it. I bet you could make something just as good if you can sew.

Great info. Thanks.

You diagnosed me with terminal late-stage capitalism. The term implies that you believe capitalism will soon end. If that's true you've misunderstood economics and history. If you don't believe capitalism is ending, you shouldn't parrot the buzz-words de jure without understanding what they mean.

Read what I said. I said we need to figure out how to let people make money off Lemmy. We need to be in control of how it happens. If we just let it play out, somebody is going to come up with a way to make money off Lemmy in a way that will kill it.

P.S. Implying that I have mental illness is a personal attack, and very bad form. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

I'm pretty sure I watched it on a streaming service, and I've seen that episode. The company buys smart lighting that can't see black people, so they hire white people to follow their black employees around.