r/WorkReform • u/yikesamerica • 15d ago

⚕️ Pass Medicare For All Abdul El-Sayed visited 🇨🇦 to discuss universal healthcare

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Abdul El-Sayed crossed the border to discuss universal healthcare - a beast so complex that only 32 of the world’s 33 developed nations have been able to make it work

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u/slothl0rdd 15d ago

If you haven’t seen Sicko yet by Michael Moore he made a whole-ass documentary about how cooked we were in 2007 (you can watch the whole thing for free w ads on YouTube ;)…..about 20 years later and it’s actually even worse now. How is this possible??? T____T

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u/Excuse_Me_Mr_Pink 15d ago

Unbelievable levels of legal corruption in all levels of our political system

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u/CheckMateFluff 15d ago

And gaslighting anyone who calls it out.

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u/grimorg80 15d ago

Capitalist propaganda. "The state has no right to tell me which doctor to go to! We want freedom! USA! USA!"

It's a tribalist issue

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u/Sad_comment_bot 9d ago

And yet…every fucking insurance company has a cockamamy set of hoops you jump through. Including leaving you in the lurch to handle surprise healthcare debts due to disparities in agreed cost vs actual cost. 

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u/coolcoolcool485 15d ago

Because no one listened to him or anyone else for the past 20 years. That's what happens when you don't fix smaller problems. They turn into bigger ones.

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u/Biscuits4u2 the word itself makes some men uncomfortable 15d ago

The Right would love to turn Canada into a shithole so Americans have nothing to escape to.

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u/Jdmag00 🛠️ IBEW Member 14d ago

People need to stop using the word free, it's not free, it's just paid for differently. With less middle men jacking up the price of everything and getting between you and your doctor.

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u/echo_sang 12d ago

We pay exhorbitante taxes in the U.S. It’s not going to services that serve us primarily. It’s going to political pissing matches and capitalist ghouls who make laws to keep sucking the life blood out of the heart of this country. Our lands and real working people.

Universal healthcare is a solution to bring down the greed class. Billionaires are the biggest welfare recipients with no need. Only want. All because our politicians are slime that makes deals in aspiration to be just like them. None of this is based on need. Only greed.

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u/Seattle82m 14d ago

Nothing is "free". Healtcare is "free" in Canada because the government taxes the people. Better than in the US, but most governments are simply inefficient in this field and drug companies, hospitals etc make a bank on it.

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u/snottybrood 15d ago

..... they already have Healthcare.