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- Deaths, lies and cover-ups: the case for a public inquiry into the ‘unthinkable cost’ of DWP’s systemic violencewww.thedepartmentbook.com ↗Submitted 11 hours ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
- Comment on The one who's coming was foretold to us has arrived 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 1 week ago:
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
Literally the subheading of the article
Complètement diminuées, des personnes atteintes de Covid long font face à des délais de plus deux ans pour savoir si elles auront droit ou non à une rente AI. Incapables de travailler, certaines finissent ruinées.
In english:
Completely disabled, people stricken by long COVID face delays of more than two years to know if they will have disability benefits. Incapable of working, some finish bankrupt.
Is this not an example of medical bankruptcy ie. bankruptcy due to a medical condition?
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
It’s about bankrupcy due to a medical condition.
Yes, resulting from lack of treatment and delay in paying disability benefits.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
Dude I’ve lived in France, Switzerland, Austria, and the UK.
I’m not trying to tell you universal healthcare is bad.
I’m trying to say the statistics on the meme are false and ignore a lot of suffering and death.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
My experience in; France, Switzerland, Austria, United Kingdom
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
That’s not how it works in my country. Great that that’s how your country works. The vast majority of those with universal healthcare don’t work like that.
I used to work for a disability advocacy organisation so I can assure you that.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
You’re vastly underestimating the number of disabled and poor people and you’re vastly overestimating the number of things that are covered.
I get your proud of your country or your system or whatever, but please don’t minimise the experience of already marginalised groups.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
An article just yesterday about the same happening in Switzerland
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
Sorry then.
I guess me living my entire life in a system with universal healthcare, being denied treatments that could have prevented me going deaf and needing a feeding tube is all in my imagination.
The treatments for these werent extreme. It was a fairly simple drug therapy that costs around 5’000 Euro per year and is sold in my country.
It just isn’t on the list of drugs covered by public health insurance. As I’m surviving on 12k per year disability benefits, I could not afford the treatment.
But just because it never impacted you you assume my experience doesn’t exist, because you have the privilege that the system never didn’t work for you, so you assume it works.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
For sure. But now imagine your disabled and on disability income, where you get payed 1k a month and are living in poverty.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
There are public healthy systems that just won’t offer that operation. Or you’ll have a 1.5 year waiting list. So in the end, unless you’re rich and pay for private insurance, it comes out as the same.
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
I know it would be covenient to accept this meme as true, but it very much isn’t.
Just like insurance companies in the US don’t cover everything you need, sometimes even lifesaving treatment, the same (though less extreme) happens in nearly all public health systems.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 1 week ago:
Same as the disability community.
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 1 week ago:
lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml 😭
Learnt this the hard way, my first account was on lemmy.ml
- Comment on Can the public expect to get to see Luigi Mangione's 3 page manifesto in its entirety in a reasonable timeframe? 1 week ago:
This was confirmed fake by NYT
- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 1 week ago:
Piracy, Linux, Self-Hosting, Anarchism
- Comment on Opinion | My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment 1 week ago:
I think I’ll cancel my subscription now.
Without Krugmann, NYT is just corporate media that sanewashes the far right and whitewashes neoliberal capitalism.
They have some cool maps on election night, and their investigations are very much high quality, but I don’t feel a need to be subscribed anymore. Especially since their sister publication — The Athletic, stopped reporting on small teams.
- Comment on The last thing Brian Thompson saw before he died 1 week ago:
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 1 week ago:
Vienna has 50% public housing and as a result basically no homeless population.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 2 weeks ago:
Not really. There isn’t a systemic problem where the lives of black people are valued more than others.
There is a systemic problem where the lives of people unable to work through no fault of their own are valued less than those who can work.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 2 weeks ago:
Well when politicians constantly use work and labour as a way to shore up support, it very quickly forgets and leaves behind those who can’t.
“working people deserve a living wage” (does that imply non-working people don’t?)
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 2 weeks ago:
That is completely untrue and shows you don’t really understand the complexity of disability.
I literally cannot.
I’m able to spend about 30 mins per day on my phone doing simple tasks.
I’m completely bedridden and unable to speak, deaf, unable to tolerate much sound or light, tubefed and slowly dying.
I cannot work.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
LOL.
The obsession with Soros is hilarious.
As if these far right people aren’t funded by billionaires with deep pockets.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 2 weeks ago:
They seem good, but as a disabled person who can’t work, the name is icky.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 2 weeks ago:
If you do. I think it’s a great idea.
But don’t fall into the “green party” loophole of just sabotaging neo-liberal democrats and helping literal facists get elected.
Start local. Run for seats you can win. Priosritise states with open primary systems.
We need a grassroots movement.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
Thank you, appreciate it.
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 2 weeks ago:
I see it more as the absurdity of capitalism.
We have people starving on the streets, people unable to afford healthcare, yet the jobs the self-proclaimed “efficiency” of capitalism creates, is labour intended to protect the people who caused these problems in the first place, not labour intended to help the people who face these problems.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
I’m donating to a small aussie charity who is mapping endangered populations and tracking responses to land use.
(not the san diego zoo ahah)
