Lots of focus now around the flaws of the american healthcare system. What can we do now to ensure a better future?

  • ian@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    Protest, riot, strike, etc. The government is owned by the robber barons. Aligning healthcare with a profit motive is violence of the highest order and we should respond in kind.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Yup. Peaceful protest doesn’t register to rich people. They can’t hear it over the clinking sounds of their champagne glasses as they toast their profit margins.

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        11 days ago

        For the rich to get the message you have to hit them where it hurts, in their wallets, their balance sheets, their portfolios, or their vital organs.

        Effective peaceful protests do this. If your peaceful protest doesn’t make a businesses have a loss it will be ineffective.

  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    12 days ago

    The current parties will do nothing. We would need to replace over half of both legislative houses with people who support single payer Healthcare (right now there’s like less than 5 iirc) to make substantial change.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago
    1. Saying “American Healthcare System” there’s no such thing.

    There are many, many disparate elements to medicine in the US. Understanding all those elements and how they relate is primary.

  • Vaggumon@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    I don’t know. But on November 19th I had a stroke, treatment and ICU stay of 3 days was over $200,000. Honestly wish I didn’t survive it, would have been much cheaper.

  • GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
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    11 days ago
    1. Civil War
    2. Revolution
    3. Societal Collapse
    4. Tribal, post-apocalypse
    5. Misinterpreted Bible leads to a few genocides
    6. Someone rediscovers the light bulb Pick back up around Edison on our timeline…

    You’re looking at around 2350 or so, so… good healthcare sweet spot is likely to be around 2420, supposing you ended up somewhere in the future that isn’t irradiated, or is irradiated in such a way that it regrows limbs, which could be good and bad.

    If you’re talking about working with what we’ve got, well… save some .PDFs in the war truck just in case you have to play field medic.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Two ways forward.

    1: Universal healthcare as seen in Canada.
    2: Private heath coverage with strict price controls set by the government as seen in Japan.

  • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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    11 days ago

    I know it may sound callous, but if you have skills. A lot of countries are looking to fill skill shortages, you could emigrate to somewhere with a sensible health system.

    Failing that, as someone else pointed out. Grassroots action!
    Get involved, change the narrative build up from local level. Shooting CEO’s is not a long term solution, yes it grabbed attention, yes it showed how fucked off the population really is… build on that momentum.