If it were exclusively the “Republican way” then this issue could have been resolved at several inflection points throughout US history.
It’s not a problem exclusive to any political party. It’s a problem because people like money. That’s the end of it. Politicians invest in corporations. Lobbyists provide kickbacks to politicians. Politicians bias their legislation to ensure maximum personal profit.
To isolate this issue to any particular political party or orientation is to perpetuate it.
Most Democrat politicians are conservatives by every international standard. They are often called neoliberals.
The reason we have a corporatocracy and do not have a legitimate healthcare system is because of conservatives, many of whom are Democrat neoliberals, unfortunately. We don’t have a progressive party. We have a conservative party and a more conservative party.
We need progressive minded non-politicians to say “fuck it” and run for office. If Boebert, Gomert, and Santos can do it, literally ANYONE can.
Looking for work? Run for office. The less of a politician and more of an honest progressive you are, the more needed you are! Do it! Do it now!
We act like these politicians are not friendly with each other regardless of D or R. Like they aren’t getting together in DC bars just like we do after work and joking around about the bills they blocked today or the votes they were able to get. They don’t care. They’re all on the same side they just have to appease different groups of people at home.
He was appointed to positions by Pence in Indiana and then Trump, but he has kept his public life to being about a doctor and not politics. Overall he was possibly the most respectable member of the Trump administration.
“If I’m in this situation with my knowledge and with my financial resources and with my bully pulpit, then the average Joe doesn’t stand a chance. The system is just broken,” Adams said.
To be fair to him, it seems to be a common thread with many in the medical profession, probably because they dedicate themselves to a system that is fundamentally broken. Even the likes of Doctor Mike (Medical YouTuber, whose content I really enjoy) have painted things like universal healthcare in a way that highlights the problems without painting the full picture of why (systemic underfunding to push privatisation).
I don’t want to excuse it, but it’s a very common problem that few want to address in the field.
I think doctors know as much if not more than anyone how broken the system is and how it constantly fails people, disagreements more about what to do about it and fears about change.
And there’s certainly some physicians organizing in support of single payer.
A lot of doctors are concerned about how much say or influence they would have in such a health system, but hey not like they have much as it is as everything has become giant conglomerates run by MBAs and private equity, so not much to lose. At least government is theoretically beholden to the people.
Doctor Mike lost any respect I had for him after his behaviour during the pandemic. He is a content creator far above being an actual medical professional.
On November 12,2020,[20] for his 31st birthday, Varshavski traveled to Miami to attend a beach party that was also attended by a number of other people without masks, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Footage of the event was posted on Instagram and went viral, particularly on Reddit.[21] On November 18, Varshavski apologized for his actions in a YouTube video,[22] saying he “messed up” and he needed “to do better”.[23] His attendance of the party was criticized by medical professionals. Bioethicist Arthur Caplan, director of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Health, said Varshavski “fails completely in being an appropriate role model and he should be called out, and he deserves even more criticism than he’s getting so far.”[23]
I mean… that’s kind of why we never stop ranting and raving… To force them to find new sources of compassion and to find empathy for the other which they weren’t taught by their family of origin. I’m tired of dealing with half the country being raised like thoughtless sociopathic fucking savages and eating the poor and each other.
Fucking tired of people who suddenly see a problem when a) it happens to them or b) when they’re no longer relying on the problem for their income.
It’s the republican way. They live in delusion land and when reality hits them in the face they get all pissy about it.
If it were exclusively the “Republican way” then this issue could have been resolved at several inflection points throughout US history.
It’s not a problem exclusive to any political party. It’s a problem because people like money. That’s the end of it. Politicians invest in corporations. Lobbyists provide kickbacks to politicians. Politicians bias their legislation to ensure maximum personal profit.
To isolate this issue to any particular political party or orientation is to perpetuate it.
Blame all of them. And vote accordingly.
Most Democrat politicians are conservatives by every international standard. They are often called neoliberals.
The reason we have a corporatocracy and do not have a legitimate healthcare system is because of conservatives, many of whom are Democrat neoliberals, unfortunately. We don’t have a progressive party. We have a conservative party and a more conservative party.
We need progressive minded non-politicians to say “fuck it” and run for office. If Boebert, Gomert, and Santos can do it, literally ANYONE can.
Looking for work? Run for office. The less of a politician and more of an honest progressive you are, the more needed you are! Do it! Do it now!
We act like these politicians are not friendly with each other regardless of D or R. Like they aren’t getting together in DC bars just like we do after work and joking around about the bills they blocked today or the votes they were able to get. They don’t care. They’re all on the same side they just have to appease different groups of people at home.
We have a long way to go, man.
What does that even mean?
Find a different team to support. These ones suck.
Yeah that’s it.
Fuck republicans and all that but was he republican or are we just circle jerking here?
He was appointed to positions by Pence in Indiana and then Trump, but he has kept his public life to being about a doctor and not politics. Overall he was possibly the most respectable member of the Trump administration.
Sometimes, it still doesn’t hit them though. They’ll get a $20,000 bill and say “thank God I don’t live in Canada or this would be even worse!”
“In shithole countries like Europe I’d just have died! Probably still waiting to see the doctor!”
“If I’m in this situation with my knowledge and with my financial resources and with my bully pulpit, then the average Joe doesn’t stand a chance. The system is just broken,” Adams said.
To be fair to him, it seems to be a common thread with many in the medical profession, probably because they dedicate themselves to a system that is fundamentally broken. Even the likes of Doctor Mike (Medical YouTuber, whose content I really enjoy) have painted things like universal healthcare in a way that highlights the problems without painting the full picture of why (systemic underfunding to push privatisation).
I don’t want to excuse it, but it’s a very common problem that few want to address in the field.
I think doctors know as much if not more than anyone how broken the system is and how it constantly fails people, disagreements more about what to do about it and fears about change.
And there’s certainly some physicians organizing in support of single payer.
Physicians for a National Health Program
A lot of doctors are concerned about how much say or influence they would have in such a health system, but hey not like they have much as it is as everything has become giant conglomerates run by MBAs and private equity, so not much to lose. At least government is theoretically beholden to the people.
Doctor Mike lost any respect I had for him after his behaviour during the pandemic. He is a content creator far above being an actual medical professional.
How so?
I’m out of the loop.
From wiki:
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I mean… that’s kind of why we never stop ranting and raving… To force them to find new sources of compassion and to find empathy for the other which they weren’t taught by their family of origin. I’m tired of dealing with half the country being raised like thoughtless sociopathic fucking savages and eating the poor and each other.