For context: The thread was about why people hate Hexbear and Lemmygrad instances

  • squiblet@kbin.social
    81·
    7 months ago

    People who have died trying to ration insulin, due to how in the US it’s made by for-profit corporations, diabetes care requires many other ridiculously expensive supplies, and the system is set up to require expensive doctor office visits and insurance to maintain a prescription, though type 1 diabetes is life-long. Plenty of other medical examples also.

    • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      513·
      7 months ago

      That’s because the US healthcare system is garbage.

      Look across Western Europe and they don’t have those issues, despite having a lot of private involvement in their healthcare.

      • squiblet@kbin.social
        111·
        7 months ago

        No kidding. But it’s specifically capitalist garbage and it’s the for- profit companies involved in it top to bottom who strongly resist reforms. They invest millions and millions in lobbying and with propagandizing the populace anytime Congress starts seriously looking at changing anything. And I mean hell, we even have TV commercials for prescription drugs.

        I’m sure it would be possible to make a capitalist, private, for profit healthcare system that isn’t abusive. For a while, maybe, since the nature of capitalism is to grow to extract as much from consumers as possible. In any event, that’s not what we have in the United States, and it does cause people to die.