• artisanrox
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    1311 months ago

    This won’t work in the US because we NEED some sort of national health care system first.

    We’ll be shoveling money into medical debt even with UBI.

    • be_excellent_to_each_other
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      211 months ago

      While I agree with you overall, it’s not like it would be a bad thing if a whole bunch of folks who currently choose between healthcare and eating could start choosing both.

    • @Smoogs
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      -111 months ago

      The health care system in Canada isn’t that great right now. There is a huge shortage of doctors. You have to get prescriptions diagnosed and filled from the pharmacist and they are moving people into urgent care (you don’t see a doctor you see a nurse) as there is no doctors. the best you can hope for is you’re not in a situation where where you’re looked at by spiteful nursing staff who determine if you’re allowed to live. Or that you’re not in a hole between antibiotics where you’re hoping you can live long enough that someone will see you before the sepsis takes you.

      • @[email protected]
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        411 months ago

        Every single one of those things is also true in the US. After factoring cost, Canada still wins.

        • @Smoogs
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          011 months ago

          And what’s the end game point here? You win the shit Olympics? Then have at it. Meanwhile it still needs fixing regardless how you feel about it.

          • @dragonflyteaparty
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            211 months ago

            No… I’m pretty sure the point was that Canada is still doing something right.

            • @Smoogs
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              -111 months ago

              That’s your perspective. The underpriveged who are getting assisted suicide because the system left them behind would disagree if they were still alive.