turboskanker 2023-08-17 17:53:54 ET step 1. pRiVaTiZe EvErYtHiNg and DeReGuLaTe cause ReGuLaTiOnS bAd and pRiVaTe SeCtOr GoOd!! let the pRiVaTe SeCtOr run everything!!1 step 2. the private sector running everything.

Chuck 2023-08-21 11:36:24 ET they're doing everything they can to privatize healthcare up here in Canada and a bunch of short sighted people are cheering it on.

turboskanker 2023-08-22 00:51:17 ET the UK seems to have a bunch of idiots doing the same. why anyone on earth would want to emulate the US's outlier system which produces, by far, the absolute worst healthcare outcomes for the most people while wasting the most money in the process and driving over half of the country's population into medical bankruptcy is utterly beyond me. canada did certainly seem to go rather apeshit (especially at the government level) over the past few years. surprised the shit out of me since, i guess as an american outsider, it didn't seem this dysfunctional up there before. i mean canada had problems, but it feels like it's gone just as far off the rails as the US has almost. i'll keep my fingers crossed for ya. it's amazing anyone is so propagandized as to go along with that idea. i guess when people have certain needs met for a long enough time, and then other problems show up, they lose sight of how much worse it could be and can be led in a far worse direction without even knowing it. ...and, boys and girls, that's how fascism happens! 🎉

Drake 2023-08-26 00:35:05 ET Honestly, I'm really happy I have Tricare.

turboskanker 2023-08-26 10:36:26 ET yep, my brother is in the army and he definitely feels the same way

Drake 2023-08-27 11:11:47 ET I don't understand how something like that can't work at scale for us.

turboskanker 2023-08-27 17:58:09 ET i mean, pretty much every other country on the planet large and small has some version of that, so there really isn't any reason it can't be expanded to all US citizens other than the fact that we seem to have a government in the US that is more unduly compromised and corrupted by corporate lobbies than virtually any other country on the planet. this is also why the US is one of only 2 countries on the planet (new zealand being the other, for some reason) that even allows pharmaceuticals to advertise on TV. the idea that healthcare should be for-profit and tied to capitalism is basically considered unethical in the rest of the developed world. san francisco, where i live now, actually does have fully "socialized" healthcare so long as you're basically not making six figures, and it's absolutely better and more versatile than any private health insurance i've had anywhere in my life, or that my family (outside of my brother) has. but, yeah, i don't really know what the US's problem is in this regard. tricare is clearly a system that works very well. even medicare is vastly more popular amongst consumers than private insurance. but the insurance industry has clearly bought off enough politicians to keep things like this from just being nationalized for all citizens. imagine if they tried doing the same privatization shit for, like, policing, or fire fighting. also how are these things functionally different, from a human rights standpoint, from healthcare? it's just ridiculous.

Drake 2023-08-28 10:44:45 ET The only recent change to Tricare/military medicine made was you can sue doctors for being shitty, which I would have loved from the botched heel surgeries that left me incapable of running well.

turboskanker 2023-08-28 11:51:34 ET huh. wonder why that wasn’t an option before.

Drake 2023-08-29 12:33:55 ET I'm honestly not sure. I do love me some accountability though.

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