• artisanrox@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This won’t work in the US because we NEED some sort of national health care system first.

    We’ll be shoveling money into medical debt even with UBI.

    • While I agree with you overall, it’s not like it would be a bad thing if a whole bunch of folks who currently choose between healthcare and eating could start choosing both.

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      1 year ago

      The health care system in Canada isn’t that great right now. There is a huge shortage of doctors. You have to get prescriptions diagnosed and filled from the pharmacist and they are moving people into urgent care (you don’t see a doctor you see a nurse) as there is no doctors. the best you can hope for is you’re not in a situation where where you’re looked at by spiteful nursing staff who determine if you’re allowed to live. Or that you’re not in a hole between antibiotics where you’re hoping you can live long enough that someone will see you before the sepsis takes you.

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          1 year ago

          And what’s the end game point here? You win the shit Olympics? Then have at it. Meanwhile it still needs fixing regardless how you feel about it.

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              1 year ago

              That’s your perspective. The underpriveged who are getting assisted suicide because the system left them behind would disagree if they were still alive.