Dr. Oz is a charlatan who’s allowed to exist because the vitamin and supplement industry lobbied against FDA oversight and won.
He’s the literal product of corruption.
And Snakeoil
Just wish the US would get a universal healthcare system like every freaking other developed country in this world. Will never happen. Ugh.
Wish granted. The government is now responsible for paying whatever premiums the health insurance companies demand. But everyone with a social security number is covered.
There’s a way of dealing with insurance company CEOs who aren’t good people don’t worry
It will happen, we just haven’t fought hard enough for it yet.
Ha ha ha. Pop pop pop.
Single payer healthcare is so complex to implement that only 22 of the 23 most developed countries in the world have done it.
The US system is grotesque.
The US system is state sanctioned terrorism of the civilian population by the plutocracy, for profit.
Part of the problem for the US is that such a huge amount of gdp is buried in the masses of beauracracy that makes up the US healthcare system, it’s essentially acting (economically) as proxy government spending to prop up a failing economy. The average US citizen is so heavily propaganda’d into hating government run projects that the sensible economic stimulus (government infrastructure projects or public services) are well and truly off the table.
What this ultimately means is fixing healthcare isn’t just breaking up the cartels, preventing price fixing and untangling the web of nonsense that makes up the US private system… unless you want to inspire a massive crash (which absolutely has real human cost), it also means redistributing government spending and implementing (unrelated) government run services and/or projects to keep all these people employed (which would also mean re-training and potentially relocating) - all of which needs to be done against the overwhelmingly loud voices screeching “government employee bad”.
While I agree with the sentiment (where this should be the case), this isn’t actually true for some of these countries.
Australia, for example, though not sure if we’re included in this 23, we have a private system also.
For all emergency care, it’s single-payer. Private health insurance / private hospitals are not permitted to provide emergency care, nor out of hospital car, but all other hospital care is allowed (I am simplifying, as I’m not super clear on it either). Further, private health insurance is not allowed to cover things that Medicare doesn’t at least also partially cover.
Sounds good right? Sounds like private health is kept in check? I mean, sort of, but it’s still really profitable, and you even get a tax break.
What it doesn’t stop, is prices getting higher and you having to cover the difference because health care employees are not necessarily employed by the stat, and can set their own prices (which is either covered by private insurance in hospital, or out-of-pocket outside hospital as private can’t cover that).
If you don’t have private health, you often have to wait way longer in the public system for non-emergency (but still medically necessary) care, like hip replacements, eye surgery etc.
It’s kinda fucked, everyone ought to be in the same queue, and if things are taking too long well then gee, I dunno, pay more / hire more / train more doctors, this doesn’t take a genius to figure out.
Healthcare should be provided by the state, in-full, covered by taxes. We (and the US for that matter) have plenty of tax revenue to cover this. And if you’re feeling really frisky, perhaps very slightly increase corporate taxes and tax breaks for the wealthy.
So we now have a two tiered system, where the wealthy get care first, or whoever can afford to pay. And you even get a tax break for it.
The US system is trash, and ours is utopian by comparison, but let’s not pretend like all 22 of 23 countries have true, universal healthcare.
We don’t, let’s aim higher haha
When the denying starts, the deposing starts.
“Those who make peaceful reform impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”
RFK Jr.'s Uncle is rolling in the grave
Probably his father too.
They do in other modern countries. Oh wait, except they don’t have “uninsured” people. If your government can’t guarantee you basic things like clean air and water, protection, health… what the fuck are you paying taxes for!?
what the fuck are you paying taxes for!?
dead brown kids!
Dont forget the billionaires!
Luigi didn’t.
More lanes for more roads, because more lanes will definitely fix gridlock
More of them, but no plan or resources towards maintaining them
He really has talent in choosing all his picks. “Ummm who could be the worst person ever to fill this role?”
Every one of those terrible picks has been a deliberate, careful choice to destabilize the country.
Except the NASA guy. He’s probably pretty good. But his job is to funnel contracts (and therfore billions of dollars) to spacex.
Anyone decent will be fired for not doing terrible things or quit because there’s too much pressure to do the terrible things (cf Trump’s first term). Most of them are happy to do the terrible things this go round, though, because they were identified in advance for being willing to do the terrible things.
Why should only the military pay for overpriced stuff they don’t need?
Being serious, it seems like he picked his people from a couple of pools.
- Republicans with a lot of social media clout.
- People plausibly accused of being Russian agents.
Don’t forget name-recognition (even outside the social media spheres.) When’s the last time so many cabinet picks were names the average American already knew? It’s not like we’re the most informed group of people. Yet out of all the millions of people in the United States, what are the chances that the best people for these jobs are ones the public has already heard of?
Trump has gotten as far as he has by treating his own name like a brand. It’s not surprising that he prefers to associate with others who’ve done the same.
Just think: you all did the right thing, holding your nose at the polls, voting for Fetterman to block Oz. And now you have both of them.
Life, uh, finds a way…
Not fucking happy about it. Worst possible outcome.
Brain damage causes conservatism.
Nah, I probably have some decent brain damage and am solidly progressive.
Same here. My brain injury made me even more radical. If anything has me wondering if I’ve gone paranoid and insane seeing all this coming danger while the rest of the world just goes about their business.
Hmm yeah fair point, I’m in the same boat.
Proposed amendment: enough brain damage causes conservatism.
We better lay off the concussions, got it haha
Isn’t life already pay to play enough? How much blood can you get from a stone?
They’re going to keep squeezing to find out.
I mean we still don’t have Soylent green factories and we aren’t using teeth of the poor as a cheap source of aquarium gravel yet, so there’s still some blood yet to squeeze from this rock.
At this point it’s less how much more can you personally pay, and more who can extract the most wealth from you to buy out the competition. They know people are beyond their spending limits.
Delay, deny, depose
Under your plan, UnitedHealth’s revenue from Medicare Advantage would roughly double to $274 billion annually,” the Democrats wrote.
That’s the point.
I’d like to see another outcome, like the government withdrawing their contracts due to fraud, but regulatory capture is strong here.
Behind the bastards podcast on this piece of shit.
what he really meant is that non millionaires dont deserve world class health care
