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You mean like the every functional county on earth?
The sponsored cans during a speech 🤡
just notice it, its the worst brands too. FOLGERS, honey bunches and oats. remember goya, one of our local chains was carrying it up until the time he started promoting the brand, and hten it disappeared from the store completely since that time, never came back. was replaced by better beans anyways.
FOLGERS
They made their decision with the incest commercial.
Reminder that every time conservatives are given power chaos ensues and everyone’s stress levels (and cost of living) skyrocket.
Every. Fucking. Time.
well, the way i think about it: if you’re a desert fox, does more rain and more food harm you?
well, consider: more rain -> more plants and more food -> it’s no longer a desert. but you’re a desert fox. what happens to you when you’re no longer in a desert?
basically the americans (especially the republicans) see themselves as semi-desert animals. they can live in a habitat where almost no-one else can live. but if you make the place more friendly, everybody could live there and then they would lose their habitat, due to being out-competed by others who are more adapt to a friendlier climate. or at least that’s how i imagine that they think; that’s why they keep their country shit and eternally semi-broken intentionally, in the hope that no-one else but them can live there, and so they have the whole country to themselves.
In his mouth, yes, because it includes ThE miGrAnTs
i dont mind throw me in there
The only way you’ll ever give me free health-care is to pry it into my cold, dead hands.
Ha, Democrats can’t even pass higher minimum wage with a house majority. Even when it was Biden’s platform.
Not one standalone bill. They had two years of a majority.
There will be no universal healthcare in the USA until Amazon and Meta decide that we should have universal healthcare.
To be fair, the Democrats had control of Congress during an earlier term too (2009-2011), and in that term they passed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). When was the last time the Republicans passed anything beneficial at all, let alone as beneficial as the ACA?
I’m be real, and ain’t nobody wanna hear this but…
Even with full health insurance, most hospitals and doctors in my 50 mile radius area either do not accept patients or are booked out to 5 months. I really think we have a educational problem that’s leading to not enough qualified doctors. I also see a lot of “Nurse Practitioners” and actual MDs that are running rounds at multiple area hospitals.
Not only does DJT know that Democrats won’t pass Universal Healthcare (setting them up for failure), but doing so would lead to cutting corners on actually educating qualified doctors, possibly leading to more harm than good.
IMO the bigger issue is education, planning, and prioritizing. We (as a Nation) can’t go all in on Universal Healthcare without planning and prioritizing education and ensuring that our system can handle the flood of new patients.
It’s something like 90% of Americans avoid going to the doctor at all if they can help it, 5 months is a lot less time then never. Also demand drives supply, more patients means more need for clinics, imaging centers, hospitals, doctors, nurses, universities etc. universal healthcare could be a financial boon
i have aca plan, and it barely covers surgeries, er visits(though managable just not chronically). with the changes to medicaid/snap curreently, i suspect the ACA will be attacked soon, much last year.
unless you are on a employers dental/health plan, dental is not covered in anyway, if you try to buy a individual plan from a thier specific websites, they are more less the same in the coverage, barely anything outside of cleanings and xrays, not even cavities are covered entirely and they have a very low maximum yearly, mostly 1-2k.
They are booked out, because the insurance makes them go thru mutliple loops, wasting an insane amount of time. My dentist had to make 4 separate appointments for a root canal/crown, because the insurance required proving each sub-procedure, with x-ray for each one of them, that otherwise wouldn’t be required. and I could’ve had it done in two.
is your dentist charge for each appt? i had to go 3 different dentists before i was able to get a crown, after root canal, after a emergency visit, i am pay out of pocket, i mininmized the cost by using yelp, and other review sites.
Healthcare is being run as a business with “just in time” supply and demand, overworking the workers who are willing to work overtime to save patients, cutting fat and trimming operations until it is a lean machine that when you take anything away would sputter. That is the ideal neoliberal image of healthcare. We saw how that worked out with Covid. Some areas should be inefficient and have “fat”.
And of course the burocracy mandated by private insurance.
Education isn’t the bottleneck, residency is. Plenty of qualified doctors coming out of med school that don’t get residency, so they have to try again next year (and compete against fresh grads).
Raising residency limits is, of course, unpopular because it means more doctors, which means less demand, so less pay to cover med school loans…and nobody wants med school to cost less. Least of all the people buying up those loans. Read: rich folk that live on investments.
I don’t understand why we need a plan.
When cheif of the fire department needs more people; They hire more.
When the chief of police needs more deputies; They hire more.
When the chief of medicine needs more nurses… Wait we don’t have a cheif of medicine? Hu. Werid…
the chief, is actually the hospital admin, think CUDDY from house, shes the 'boss" of that hospital.
The rate at which new doctors are trained in the USA has historically been bottlenecked by the number of residency program slots available. Hospitals financially benefit from each resident they employ, but not as much as they do from adding other roles, instead (such as nurses). Also, it is not trivial to create a new residency program or expand an existing one (accreditation requirements, other fixed costs, etc.). This is why 25 % of USA physicians are immigrants. The Republicans have also made it more expensive to get loans for medical school, which will discourage some people from going to med school in the future, although the insufficient supply of residency slots might still end up being the bottleneck.
But even if we did not increase the supply of doctors, moving to Single Payer would still benefit us by reducing cost. I don’t think Single Payer would need to be coupled to increasing the supply of physicians.
nurses are making bank, they deserve it. when 2 billionaires made it free for the current students, i think columbia and one other. the schools selectively excluded less well off/wealthy students(people that can stay home all day and study) from medical school from being accepted, so it isnt an easy fix, because med school is not something you can have a job and still study, thats why most tend to be wealthy MDs or well off.
alot of the MDs in our area are asian, ME, or indians, and whites. the 4 well off demographics, black and latin ones are rare, others like indigineous are almost non-existent.
this is very similar to 2 other health programs i looked at radiology technologist, and CLS. both ahve decent high income but very small bottlenecked amount of schools that teach it. Community colleges, while very cheap have horrendous acceptance, and wait times, many years(4 years sometimes), many students find it not worth it and just get a degree instead, because they only ever accept 20-30 per semester or per year out of 20k people waiting for any number CC that teach it(lucikly is not by competition, but by a lottery system).
CLS has a same problem but reversed, low number of schools that each it, and even lower for the adjacent MLT program(that can be used to bridge the gap for a CLS program), plus everyone is trying to come to the west coast for the schools(only 9 schools in the west teach it, imagining hundreds and thousands trying to get into the program at any given semester). this ensures the salaries remain high i guess, by limiting how people and how much schools are teaching it. CLS significantly more competitive than Radio techs(because it requires alot of 4 year university classes. CLS is appealing because it is a very cheap grad program(less than 20k for the whole year), compared to something like pharmacy from a nearby university which is more than 10X the cost and 3-4times as long, but thier starting salary is very similar.
radio tech people can choose to go to a university, which has expideted acceptance, but way more expensive, also similar income levels. oh and there are shortages of cls and radio techs in general, but im guessing its on purpose so they dont lower the salaries.
Damn, it’s a more multi-faceted issue than I had guessed. The U.S. sure has a long uphill battle ahead…
They have been purposely fucking shit up for a long time. They just keep layering more shit on so there’s never a chance of any real progress.
You’re really falling for the fascist lie of “people are getting dumber”
Is it really a fascist lie?
At least in the U.S. the educational burden has certainly increased. The cost of living, the closing of schools and combining of districts, the stagnant wages of teachers, the shortage of teachers due to the stagnation, the automation of jobs is removing apprenticeships, LLMs do not teach as well as doing things hands on. The influence of social media is still a strong pull and media literacy feels like it’s at a low in the U.S.
I have a feeling in the next decade we’re going to start seeing the consequences as boomers age out of legacy jobs and automation takes the place where educated workers used to.
Yes. It is a fascist lie.
And education != intellect, education teaches people how to harness the intellect they already have more effectively. A metaphor is “everyone has flour, education teaches you how to make it into bread”
Another key point, to fill the gap caused by extremely expensive Higher Education, self-teaching has become a booming market.
Stuff like Online Courses that give a degree if you pay, but all the material is given for free.
wages are definitely stagnant for teachers, we had people arguing in the subs, that they are relatively “high” in certain places, but the COL negates the wages a bit. like here it takes 10years being a teacher to get even 100k, with the hcol, its way less than that. i wonder if teachers even stay that long and, if 70k is really the starting salary. im also hearing districts are using SUBSTITUTES instead to lower the cost of hiring a full time teacher.
The number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the USA is healthcare. At this point, what is worse, losing everything to a massive dumpster fire, US healthcare, waiting for treatment or croaking because your health insurance sucks shit.
2nd one is likely student debt loan, from expensive private universities.
The hardest part of American healthcare is buying the tickets to Europe or Mexico for the affordable operation.
Edit: wait, I can see the tsunami coming, I made the mortal mistake of commenting on American affairs. Fuck this shit I’m out.
You can open the floodgates but if a plan is not in place to displace the water it’ll overcome the system.
The for-profit system is also already slow as balls. It chugs along fine at a snails pace.
To say there’s not a educational shortage on degrees that take up to 8+ years in a country that is already facing an educational deficit I think is the real irrational. Planning is an important step that shouldn’t just be left as an afterthought.
In Canada when they implemented dental care they did it progressively by age group, that could help a bit with the issues you’re describing.
Why are Democrats never as cool as Republicans say they are? Like they controlled the entire government under Obama and the best we got was making it illegal to not have health insurance.
if you know which DNC are elected , you know some of them are actually conservative, but not R enough to be elected as a republican, they just pretend to be a dem to get elected. we dont have a significant number of AOCs, or bernies in congress, its mostly schumerites, and hakeem politically speaking. because the old guard will never agree on AOC and bernies agenda, they would rather get rich by placating GOP and thier donors.
But that’s how single payer systems basically work. It’s illegal to not pay into the system because it’s illegal to not pay your taxes.
No, single payer system means a legal guarentee of public health care.
What they did was make it a punishable offense to not have health care. That is very very different. They aren’t giving a product that are forcing you to buy a product.
mroe than welcome to have a single pay and regulated private insurer, like canada maybe?
Registered car owners are already forced to have an expensive service (car insurance) in most (all?) states
to be fair car insurance should be required, because cars are potentially very dangerous, and the cost to infrastructure and people is very high if damage was incurred. also certain areas will have even higher rates than surrounding areas due to the demographics that are likely to cause accidents or collisions. thats why its important to invest in public transport more, like HSR, this will totally eliminate the need for cars in many areas.
And? That’s still not single payer care insurance.
Also owning & operating a vehicle is a privilege whereas living & receiving medical care, should be, a right.
Except it’s not a single payer health system is it? It’s just giving corporations even more money and therefore power.
Republicans always make Democrats sounds way cooler than they really are
They have more faith in the democratic party than I do LMAO
Yeah this is just another lie Trump told
This is from the 2024 campaign. Which he won, bafflingly.
Sure he did, same way Bush won Florida when his brother was in charge of the count.
and the DNC refusing to even investigate they knew what actually happened.
Are those ads in the corner of the screen? What’s going on there lol?
I thought it was a random pile of salsa, but it’s a random pile of coffee and cereal just hanging out with the stock ticker.
I get paid every time I say Carl’s Jr. Carl’s Jr.
I just assumed that they were on his desk and would be related to some kind of grocery prices discussion.
“EVEN THE BROWNS???”
- His fanbase.Until medical costs are capped, ain’t gonna happen and the shithole US healthcare system will expand.
OZ/rfk jr already is forcing a working stipulation(hrs/week) for medicaid holders now, i think snap is included. yea it already is going to automatically kick off alot of people as it is.
That’s literally the point of Universal Healthcare provided by gov, they force medical costs to go down by going to the drug companies “well if you don’t reduce price, we won’t buy it, and we’re the only shop in the whole country”
Look at the price Germany pays for FLUOROURACIL VITANE 50ml - €3.66
Same exact drug, same exact dosage in USA - $15.99
(Looked up a price comparison and copypasted the first price I found)
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