A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.
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Awww we have abundance? The world is always getting better? Science is so cool? We can do so much more?
Who's we? I had to stitch an injury up with a sewing kit last week. I didn't get antibiotics. Half my friends don't get to sleep in houses. I'm the only person I know who regularly eats real food without fear of shitting myself because my entire apartment is shelves full of dirt and grow lights.
What's shocking is our inaction.
The survey that the article is based on seems pretty fishy to me. It's conducted by some financial services company that is mostly involved in selling financial products, not doing research. The methodology section is pretty threadbare and they don't provide the survey data itself.
The figures are also way out of line with more reputable research organizations like the KFF which estimates that 17% of Americans delay or avoid healthcare due cost.
Is 17% still really high and an unethical travesty in the wealthiest country on earth? Yeah. But there's no way that 92% of people are skipping the doctor due to cost. Just as an example, the top quintile of earners in the US make more than 300k per year. I doubt that anyone in that group in delaying or avoiding healthcare due to costs and yet the survey would mean that a good chunk of them are.
Exactly. There was an article on here that said that self check out saved grocery stores 300 billion dollars a year when total revenue for the entire grocery industry is a trillion dollars.
This sub needs significantly better fact checking and moderation. This is obviously a nonsense article with a nonsense number with a % sign after it.
There's no way it's only 17%. The percentage of uninsured was estimated over 8% in 2024, before insurance premiums skyrocketed and Republicans voting to kick millions off of Medicaid.
I guess there's also different levels of "skipping". If I was an American, I'd be skipping it unless I'm deathly suffering, whereas here I'd go if it's sufficiently debilitating.
The US is corporate greed shithole, film at 11.
For me, I think it's more the unpleasantness of being ripped off than affordability. It's such a fucking scam.
Can we please gets some socialism up in this bitch already?!
Go take it? Aren't you Americans supposed to have it in your blood to combat tyranny?
They will never give it to you.
You will have to take it by force.
Actually the Luigi way. Trust me a couple or 10 dead easy to put some strain. They’re not in fear of their mortality.
Can you imagine, and I’m not saying it’s wrong, but the initial wait times if/ when it becomes free? Like it will take 3-5 years to sort itself out
"shocking"? I feel like anyone living here could tell you this 💀
Yes, not "shocking" at all when literally everyone you know is doing this...
Edit: with the exception of Boomers on Medicare.
Is this true? How do people vote for parties that don't change it?
Which parties change it?
For roughly 40 years now, no party has been all that serous about changing it?
They don't have preferential voting in the US so they're effectively limited to two parties
Many are convinced you can't have freedom and an affordable doctor at the same time. Americans are subjected to extraordinary levels of propaganda.
Propaganda has some people convinced that universal healthcare means having to wait for weeks for a medical appointment, and also that even that (made up) problem is worse than not being able to afford to go to the doctor at all
Meanwhile, even if you can afford it, you have to wait for weeks for an appointment under the current system anyway.
I don't think the freedom part is accurate, but the propaganda certainly is. The news tells them what to think and they don't try further. They are convinced the United States has the best healthcare in the world, so nice, it cannot be put into a more affordable model without becoming unusably bad. They believe the Magic Market has created the absolute best and cheapest option out there, and the government can only mess that up. Individually, to those who use it, you almost always get complaints as we find ways to make it MORE inaccessible and MORE expensive (eg, concierge doctors), but even those people believe this is the best and cheapest way to do it. They themselves just got unlucky for their personal and not unique situation. The news told them so.