I think I can probably get MAID (Medical Assist In DYING) cheaper than I can get the health care I need.

It's been 1984 here for quite a while now and I'm getting tired..

this is totally crazy!

Glad I live in Australia, we may have a few problems with health care, but overall it is way better than the US!

@mhanson101

a trillion times, as long as they buy enough congresscritters to prevent any reform

Holy. Shit.

I guess the one positive is that doctors like her exist. Though, if this is the price she has to pay, I don't see that many of them standing up for their patients in the future.

So when United Health's CEO was assassinated, the lesson they learned was not "let's be less shitty and actually help people," but "Let's continue to be shitty but hide our identities."

It's time to burn the whole fucking thing down to the ground and start over.

Billionaires are funding the destruction of American health care.

Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein
https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2025/02/14/gop-and-koch-groups-want-to-slash-medicaid-to-pay-for-trumps-tax-cuts/

Voters didn't suddenly wake up one day & volunteer to die.

It's the Heritage Foundation that wants to remake health care into a revenue source for the 1%
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/09/koch-network-tries-to-counter-biden-public-option-obamacare.html

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/koch-cash-behind-latest-attack-obamacare/

Nationalized healthcare is better. It makes businesses more competitive moving healthcare to the public sector.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/thanks-koch-brothers-proof-single-payer-saves-money/

Koch network pushes private-sector health-care agenda to counter Biden's public option

The political network backed by billionaire Charles Koch is pushing forward with its own health-care agenda as President Joe Biden looks to build on Obamacare.

^{Brian Schwartz (CNBC)}

sarcasm doesnt communicate in text. you have to use the sarcasm indicator (/s)

we don't know you. and trolls and stupid maga people are real. for all we know you're being sincere. there's no indicator or way for us to know you're joking. it's your responsibility to communicate that, not our job to be mystified by your intentions and make assumptions

@theolodian @Oldfartrant @skyfire747 If you're trying to do a "Democrats are evil" thing while Trump has armed troops invading a US territory to arrest citizens while floating a ridiculous narrative that they need to "restore order" in a place that has a 30 year record low crime rate, I think maybe you should stop drinking the kool-aid yourself...

If that means something else, sorry for not recognizing it since you didn't exactly elaborate.

@Ambulocetus @zannesan

it's sustainable:

you're poor, just fucking die already

(i joke, but that's the plutocrats seriously)

no

europeans are not possessing of magical powers to divine someone's intentions in a straight text post

what you're writing here is bullshit, i'm sorry

the point is morons and trolls are real. who's to know?

unless you know the person, there is zero way for you to divine sarcasm over sincerity in a post without any inflections or facial expressions

this is just a pure communication issue

@nazokiyoubinbou @theolodian @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747

i think we have a culture clash here

what i'm understanding is the british are heavy users of sarcasm, so that's their first go to in reading a comment

and us americans require a clear indication of sarcasm, which the british are assuming is some sort of handicap

while i don't like to make cultural judgments, i'm coming down on the side of americans here:

do they not have trolls and morons in the uk?

how can one know?

@theolodian @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747 As a point of clarity for how we would be so confused by the extra tidbit in the reference, in America our two political parties use the color blue for Democrats and red for Republicans. So when you tell people they're drinking blue koolaid, it sounds like a political reference.

It wasn't an inability to understand sarcasm, but just that your reference came off as a political statement.

@theolodian @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747 So you mean "drink the koolaid." No one ever says blue koolaid in reference to that incident. You can definitely understand why we're confused since you added in that extra tidbit no one else has ever used.

Your original post still kind of comes off feeling more like you're saying *we* are the ones drinking the koolaid. You can definitely understand how it feels like a troll.

@nazokiyoubinbou @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747

https://study.com/learn/lesson/jim-jones-peoples-temple-what-was-jonestown-massacre.html

@MrInappropriate @theolodian @Oldfartrant @skyfire747 Actually, if you have to declare it...

you might just be using a text-only post on the Internet where spoken voice tones and inflections aren't carrying through because...

it's text only!

We didn't get the joke. We still don't. We aren't saying healthcare is communism in any of these posts either. We just don't get the local reference you're using of blue koolaid meaning... communism? Or whatever since you still won't explain

we are, here in america, indeed, living in a suicide cult

some of us are not willing participants in it though, it's forced on us

we encounter morons and trolls on a regular basis who speak as you speak, but sincerely. i have no idea who you are. i didn't know where you are from

an honest question for you:

are there no morons and trolls in the uk?

how do you know via a text only post who you're dealing with?

@nazokiyoubinbou @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747 I treat everyone the same, I make no judgements.

Yes, the UK has turned racism, privilege and parochialism into an art form. The real morons are the politicians though, all of them.

so let's say you're dealing with a british topic online and you see this in response to a politically charged post:

"just like a poor person"

you assume sarcasm, i assume

but how can you be sure? how do you know you're not dealing with an idiot?

i'm going to make a prediction

you will not like it:

online social media, in text form at least, is going to kill the longstanding british tradition of heavy sarcasm

@nazokiyoubinbou @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant @skyfire747 I’d be the first one saying it. 😉

I never claimed to be popular. 🙄

as long as us americans keep getting quality syndicated british television which is always full of heavy british sarcasm

it is delighful from the american point of view

i can't say "well met" but i gave you a follow

please reply to me one day or another in heavy sarcasm, unindicated

i will be amused only, i promise

i got your number now! 😆

see now i'm reading that as sarcasm, that you're telling me you'll obsequiously concede and conform

😆

by the way:

(/s)

@skyfire747 @theolodian @nazokiyoubinbou @MrInappropriate @Oldfartrant

oi, don't be a c*nt

australia: hey, don't be so daft
usa: what the fuck did you say to me you motherfucker?

😆

@moz @fixatedpersonsunit

tingo is specifically posting this in reference to american doctors

canada is poaching american doctors too

i don't blame australia, canada, or the doctors at all

@MrInappropriate @theolodian @nazokiyoubinbou @Oldfartrant @skyfire747

love through sarcasm

i dig it

THIS my Insurance company. My cardiologist prescribed Brilinta after my Angioplasty and Stent insertion and they denied it . They instead prescribed Plavix.

Brilinta (ticagrelor) and Plavix (clopidogrel) are both antiplatelet medications used to prevent blood clots, but they differ in strength, administration, and potential side effects. Brilinta is generally considered more potent and faster-acting than Plavix but carries a higher risk of bleeding. Plavix is generic so cheaper.

> your moronic country prefers you to just die

That's my preference also 🍦

we do get sarcasm

read further up:

the problem is unindicated sarcasm online in text only

the culture clash is the british person assumes sarcasm, while the american person assumes troll/ idiot

As a Brit, I fear the creeping privatisation of our healthcare system, because it means essentially entering a zone whereby insurance companies will determine whether we live or die.

And when the medical practitioners the insurance companies use to determine their decisions are so far removed from the specialisms they’re making decisions on…we’re *ucked. This video confirms that to me.

It already happens with disability benefits…this is the next horrific stage.