It’s more than just insurance companies
Capitalism as a whole.
Edit: at least late-stage, or whatever is going on in the US.
2nd edit: For those of you who are commenting on my “views”. I do not endorse capitalism in any way. I think everyone would be better off without it.
Capitalism = bad, hopefully that clears up the confusion.
MF nowhere else as shit healthcare like the US, don’t drag everwhere else into this.
Oh the Tories want US style healthcare so bad, the way they’re cutting into NHS.
I can’t speak for Australia, but from the corruption bullshit I hear coming from their whatever socialized medicine they have right now is at risk of dissolving.
Hopefully, the EU knows better than to go the same route.
I’m Brazilian. Brazil have a free healthcare system called “Sistema Único de Saúde” (“Unified Health System”) or, as we often call it by its acronym, “SUS”.
While I personally had a fair good experience with it when I needed medical care, SUS is not perfect. There are notorious disparities between Brazilian states regarding to how many public health financing from taxes each city any state gets. For example: the state of São Paulo has better public healthcare than, say, Minas Gerais (and I’m talking about two states that I personally know and resided in, so I’m not talking about something I read somewhere or something I heard from someone). Even when they’re neighbors. It’s not because Minas Gerais is worse than São Paulo, because it isn’t, it’s because São Paulo gets to get more tax funding.
The following is recent news (as from this week) from a major Brazilian news television program, translated to English:
That man is hospitalized through the Brazilian public healthcare system. Cases like his happen on a daily basis throughout the Brazilian territory, especially in the northern states, but not limited to. It’s just that his case got to get the attention of the media. Several Maurílios (and Marílias) face similar bureaucratic slippery slopes every day.
Is the private healthcare better, then? Hell no, of course not! Our “convênios médicos” are as bureaucratic as the US healthcare insurance, perhaps even worse. The only thing that’s far from bureaucratic is “particular healthcare” because the patient pay directly to the doctor, but it’s generally expensive and far from the reaches of the reality of millions of Brazilians, and they don’t really cover all the medical needs (e.g.: paying directly to a doctor won’t cover the need of MRI scanning, because individual doctors often have no MRI machines for their own medical service).
The “Sistema Único de Saúde” is something to be improved and it’s far from perfect and it needs lots of fixes, but it’s undeniably a public healthcare system model to inspire Americans so they can begin with a proper healthcare system nationwide. I don’t really know British NHS or Canadian public healthcare systems, but Brazilian system is probably unique because of how many people it serves (216 million people, more than UK and Canada populations summed up).
Not for lack of trying, the corruption of the US spreads wherever it can. When a large tree is dying, it rots from the centre of the trunk first. The rot at the core of capitalism started where the most power resides, and that’s why the US is such a horror show. You aren’t immune from it, it just hasn’t rotted as badly where you are.
Nothing really. Just wanted to make sure people knew I was referring to late-stage capitalism. (I’m also not from the US).
What about mercantilism? I think Trump’s going to give that one a go. Hopefully we can establish some nice colonies, say in a tropical place where we can grow pineapples.
You didn’t raise your pitchfork high enough and yell loud enough so the extremists in the group are attacking you for being a traitor to their group even tho you’re on the same side. Happens in any political group on any side whether dictator antifa whatever. If your outward appearance isn’t 100% For, they forcefully Align you until they are comfortable with you. Notice how you are now trying to adjust your words to be acceptable. I’ve seen it everywhere and still find it annoying so at this point i just block. Anyway, human nature; it isn’t always enjoyable.
