Don’t worry about school children supply. They’re going to ban abortion soon enough so you don’t run out of them.

Nothing weird, it’s just that they have a lot to catch up after the pandemic. The average of more than 1 shooting/day must be restored and they lost a lot of time without doing any.

Or for apnea. People overload their lungs with oxigen so they can survive the long periods without breathing in those dives.

But we’re at the same point then. They cover the basic stuff and the rest is on you. So people with less resources will have to pick between get the other things covered (out of their pocket) or spend that money in healthier lifestyle (and hope to not need the additional insurance).

Your problem is that you want to have less coverage and pay less taxes? Fine, but what would happen if you need healthcare that is not covered by your basic insurance then?

US Americans pay hundreds per month on their health insurance. And it doesn’t mean they have “free” healthcare after they pay those hundreds. In fact, they usually have to pay thousands in case of need (the difference is that with insurance they pay few thousands instead of hundreds of thousands). The reason our system is cheaper is because it doesn’t operate for profit.

If we had a system in which people doesn’t have a mandatory, they would need to pick too: between health insurance (that would be more expensive than the mandatory) or healthier lifestyle. And many would still pick the insurance because the alternative is what we see in the US. People would simply end up paying more than they pay now for the mandatory plan.

Thanks to that significant amount, if you happen to be diabetic, you don’t have to pay hundreds for a single insulin dose. Just to talk about a single thing. But there are many others. What do you consider “emergency needs”? A car accident? Good, but what about a long term illness? Like cancer. Or what about paid sick leave?

The problem is that you are assuming that you will never need the system. And that is a very risky stance.

Besides, considering US Americans pay hundreds in insurance anyway (and then they still have all the misery of their system), are you sure you’re paying too much for your public healthcare system?

The reality in the whole developed world is that of having a strong social welfare service while having a military spending that’s just the bare minimum needed. Priorities I guess.

How can Americans claim that their capital slavery is freedom is beyond me; but I find amusing that they look at Europe claiming they are living in a feudal society while not seeing how dependant they are on the capital.

I’m happy to live without the risk of going bankruptcy for going to the hospital. Can you say the same?

I have an idea: why don’t you stop being a racist ****? Or better, create your own instance where only “worthy” races are allowed so you openly declare yourself what you already are and everyone else can safely avoid your shit.

They got one thing right tho: the name.

I love how every pride month almost every company with internet presence becomes rainbow-y and post LGBT shit as if they’d care. But only for that month, because you know, in December it would hurt them if they’d posted something rainbow-y…

The thing that did it for me was when they posted a very controversial link about how the 5g is harmful while blocking comments to avoid any discussion. I’ve blocked them right after that.

Someone like that is obviously on a power trip and will do more harm than good to Lemmy.

I’ve reported it, block the idiot, and do not feed it

Everytime I need to use reddit (usually because a search on a specific matter gave me a reddit post as best result) I just use libredd.it instead of reddit.com.

E.g. if you have www.reddit.com/yourpost use instead libredd.it/yourpost.

Great news indeed! Less vaccinated usonians means less usonians surviving COVID! I’m actually OK with less usonians in the world, specially if they are the kind that won’t vaccinate.

It hurts to read this but what hurts more is that all this is not a result of the virus but of the society that decided to not work towards solidarity and choose instead individualism and the rule of “if I’m fine, screw the others”. The worst has yet to come ,and it will be bad. Because as long COVID settles and impairs people, they will be forced to cash their savings to pay for medical bills. Leaving millions of people in poverty.

This was bound to happen, COVID was just the catalyst.