Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 13/02/2024What’s harder to believe? That universal healthcare is so radical and complicated that we’re the only country in the world without it. Or… The millions of dollars in insurance and pharma campaign donations each year to members of Congress are actually just bribes to block it. 28745287
Alison Denham @paddymaid.bsky.social · 13/02/2024We’re heading to the same situation in the UK. Increasing influence of private healthcare companies in Government decisions. Corruption. 010
Onceler @oncelerwagon.bsky.social · 13/02/2024The problem with universal Healthcare was never that it was radical or complicated. The issue has always been that rich people, mostly in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries, would not be able to make nearly as much money under that system. 040
KarlTheMarxiest.bsky.social @karlthemarxiest.bsky.social · 13/02/2024It was congress’ biggest pharma bro who traded endorsements in a quid pro quo with Joe Biden Clyburn chose him to be president, and Biden moved the primary to the Republican and anti-abortion/union state of South Carolina Clyburn, THE king of pharma donations 020
scare-cadus (is this anything) 🎃 @birdapp.rip · 13/02/2024I will never understand how Americans are simply okay with mass bribery and corruption of their government officials in the name of "lobbying". 3120
Jay 🇨🇦 @fatalzio.bsky.social · 14/02/2024I have definitely sat though the former explaination dozens of times. Some effective propaganda at play. 000
Kaia Vintr @kaiavintr.bsky.social · 13/02/2024would there be a similar graph for post-secondary education (if you could find the right metric)? 010
jointfitter1968.bsky.social @jointfitter1968.bsky.social · 14/02/2024What is worse is doctors in other countries find cures for illness, but they’re not allowed to practice medicine in this country. If it affects the pharmaceutical companies bottom line. Dr Chaudhury in India has found a cure for diabetes. 000
MaryES.bsky.social 😻💙📎 @maryes.bsky.social · 14/02/2024Makes absolutely no sense, does it? We have to get Dems in charge all the way from the top down to the city levels. 010
Dakota Jones @kkaiser.bsky.social · 13/02/2024I would say our lifestyle has more to do with life expectancy that health care although I still think we should have universal health care. My wife is a type 1 diabetic so we get the full health care experience in America 000
Matthias M. M. Meier @matthiasmmmeier.com · 13/02/2024Switzerland's already on the luxury line here but I still wonder what we could learn from Japan. 000
Rob DeVeets @robdevita.bsky.social · 13/02/2024Hmm I wonder if any US presidents horribly influenced things in America in the 80s but are somehow celebrated for it now 0280
r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 13/02/2024I've seen some people from the US use a reverse exceptionalism argument that's basically just that people in the US are shitter than other people so it can't happen. It's incredible tbh. 030
OmegaMom (she/her) @omegamom.bsky.social · 13/02/2024Ronald Reagan’s administration has a lot to answer for. 😟 020
Julia Van Dyke, the ðude 🏳️⚧️🦋 @imrustyokay.bsky.social · 13/02/2024That somehow politicians in countries with better healthcare want to switch to a version of our system 250
T1D Jgroce @jgroce.bsky.social · 13/02/2024What if, this system is too far gone. Meaning that you know it is time to rewrite the constitution. I think there are numerous examples of how the current constitution is failing the "all people" and only allowing the elite to succeed. Why not fix it? why not update the constitution 2 current needs? 000
Raj Thamotheram @rajtham.bsky.social · 13/02/2024I wonder what the USA would look like if you separated folk by their income? 120
Blue skies has put a label on me @usmc.bsky.social · 13/02/2024Obamacare was going to be answer You can keep your doctor what’s the issue? 000
Shane Littrell, PhD @metacognishane.bsky.social · 13/02/2024Well, we're not the only country in the world without it (e.g., Egypt, South Africa, Iran), so that one's tougher to believe mainly because it's demonstrably false. 110
Pvnk'd @cynickal.bsky.social · 13/02/2024We literally have generations of data from existing universal health care systems to select the best practices from each And continue to choose not to 010
Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 13/02/2024I like to fantasize about a world where 10% of political discourse on social media was focused on this single issue. 020
Annie B Kay @anniebkay.bsky.social · 16/02/2024Exactly. Look at all those models of delivering better healthcare for cheaper. 🤔 000
Sgt. Pigeon @sgtpigeon.bsky.social · 13/02/2024There is one that makes a LOT more sense, isn't there? 000
Keith Brady @keithb-oz.bsky.social · 14/02/2024I'm simply gobsmacked at the lack of results for the $ put in. Who's getting it all? How bloody senseless! 000
David @Unimatrix Zero @wildpalmsltd.bsky.social · 13/02/2024We really have no more excuses. For years the justification for keeping our benighted system was availability of the best care. But outcomes don't bear that out and access is actually retreating. #M4A 1100