https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/ukraine/2023/09/07/ukraine-russia-war-live-updates/70783569007/
A new defense minister, an encouraging visit from a U.S. official and more U.S. aid. Will they have an impact on the Ukraine war?
It's difficult to express in words how I feel seeing my country trip over itself to throw billions of dollars into a black hole while millions of my own people live in poverty and die of preventable diseases. How long have we been fighting for something as basic as universal healthcare and the answer is always "it costs too much." I guess money is no object when we're funding nazis
Universal healthcare saves money. It's kept private so that corporations can squeeze you for cash, feeding it to a bloated insurance and hospital industry, particularly to the owners of those industries.
It's also to chain people to their jobs. Plenty of Americans understand that their jobs are pointless, coercive, exploitative and only intended to increase the wealth of their bosses. No one would work at these places if it weren't for the health insurance.
The health insurance that, most of the time, doesn't even fucking pay out then you need it anyway.
no argument here, it's our representatives that keep repeating "it costs too much/it will lower quality of care"
It makes perfect sense when you realize the people making any of those decisions are, firstly, amoral monstrosities (and no, I don't mind dehumanizing anyone in the top levels of government- they are not humans) and secondly they/their buddies/their family, etc. profit DIRECTLY from the US arms/research industry and the US pharma industry/private medical industry, etc.
Universal healthcare for everyone and abolition of unnecessary insurance companies (a government agency would handle logistics, triage if necessary (oh no death panels!), etc.) would directly result in loss of money for congress and/or people/groups they personally want to see benefit. A truly anti-war stance, no sanctions, no additional arms to ANY country, military drawn and cutting off intelligence agencies completely would also directly cost them money or, at the absolute least, the least corrupt vector, cost them the endorsement of people/corporations that seek to see continuation of arms production and private healthcare.
When you really see the motivations and accept that anyone who lands in those powerful positions always seems to cave to the power or do far too little or simply can't do anything even in those positions (look at Bernie. He's only one man. He says this stuff out loud for like 30 years+ now in congress and what has changed? It's only gotten worse!) you start to arrive at the only solutions being outside the system which perpetuates these outcomes. And now that I have intrigued the assigned lemmygrad FBI agent, I should probably stop there.