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Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 day agoYeah it gets a little bit… psychotically dystopian at that point. Most likely the child will be enrolled in medicaid (or CHIP or similar state programs, assuming we still have any of those I haven’t checked today…), and they will receive necessary care until they’re discharged. But hey, it’s the US, that’s not guaranteed.
flandish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
dystopian? this is bog standard capitalist formula, sadly.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How it possibly be “bog standard” when it’s the only developed nation on the planet where it’s true?
cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The united States is not developed, it’s metastasized.
flandish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
development is a spectrum.
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
On top of the other point.
Capitalism is uninterested in your healthcare policy. That’s your country’s failure, not capitalism’s, for once. Market pressures did not invent a gaggle of middle men siphoning the money between patients and care providers. That’s a result of government failures that ossified into a corrupt system benefiting a select few, a scheme which is not unique to capitalism and is actually reminding me of soviet bureaucracy.
The distinction is not purely academic, because correctly pointing out that you’re not fighting capitalism but corrupt bureaucracy makes reform a much easier sell, which is why healthcare reform is a transpartisan issue until donors and lobbyists get involved.