Agreeing about universal healthcare but adding sufficient PTO to go to the Dr.
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rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
IMO, this is one of the consequences of not having universal health insurance that isn’t talked about enough. If the bar for going to the doctor is “about to lose a limb from infection”, then people become vulnerable to pseudo-scientific garbage, simply because they hardly ever receive advice from actual medical professionals.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Add to that the pleatora of fraudulent TV doctors
BreadOven@lemmy.world 6 days ago
100 % this. Also maybe overall education quality as well?
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Vaccines are often free here
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s great, but I’m talking about broad coverage of health care needs and a general habit of seeing a doctor when you’re sick, injured etc.
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
I agree with you 100%. When the prospect of a health emergency or chronic condition means bankruptcy, people can’t help but look for alternatives.
Under a capitalist system where anyone can sell ‘supplements’ and any other random ‘treatment’ under the radar long enough to make a quick buck, misinformation abounds and the desperate roll the dice.
Health care isn’t just that. It’s what keeps families together, it’s what keeps communities together, and it’s a tragic farce that too many of us see it as a privilege and not a right.
sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Many of my fellow Canadians fell for that shit, and they have free access to doctors.
(Not all of them, because our healthcare system is weirdly understaffed, but many of them)
robocall@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I noticed Canada is recruiting healthcare professionals from the US, and one of the things they really like is being able to provide healthcare without the middleman insurance companies denying healthcare.
howrar@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
The bar for a lot of us is also at “about to lose a limb from infection”. The only difference is that we don’t get a hospital bill to go with that visit.
architect@thelemmy.club 1 week ago
Great point. Hard to trust doctors when it’s $500 to not find anything over and over and over and over.