"Hey, remember those general rules we set to help you make sure you were financially secure?! Well they're not obtainable now so just forget we said anything."
I’m a dual citizen, currently living in the States. I can say with certainty that there is some lingering fear mongering around single-payer healthcare. Lots of Americans have this idea that healthcare in other countries is terrible. I’ve had people flat-out refuse to believe that hospital wait times for deadly emergencies don’t regularly exceed 6 hours in Canada.
I’m guessing that the people profiting from the current system in the US have done their best to convince everyone that it’s the best way.
The modern economy has never been as productive, yet people increasingly struggle. Meanwhile, people like your minister of Housing generate incomes without producing additional wealth by capturing parts of the stock of homes.
Meta removing links to news is one thing but from Google is very big, and will be very bad for Canadians.
I can see it being shitty for you and I when searching for current news, the results being populated with low quality blogs/disinformation websites being the top results.
It's also going to be disastrous for Canadian news outlets that get organic traffic from Google. The news sites have ads on them which pay their bills.. so without traffic, there's no money. This will also kill any investment into the sector because who the hell would do that?
Not that anyone uses Bing for news lol but I can see them doing the same thing, and the other smaller search engines that are out there.
I know that a lot of people these days hate on the media but the internet being controlled like this by the government is not a good move, for anyone.
So as an American I’ve heard stories of such things happening here as well. Doctors weigh a lot and money is usually the last concern when it comes to potentially lifesaving procedures. Old age makes surgery risky and decreases how good good outcomes can get.
In general governments are more willing to pay to keep people alive than for profit corporations. And if insurance says no few Americans can afford to override it
Doctors definitely will in some cases say “you’re too weak for such an operation” or “you wouldn’t survive the operation” or some such. (Basically if the patient’s prognosis is better if they don’t get the common treatment for their condition, it’s valid to deny the patient the operation.) It’s not about age. The patient could be 30 and be denied for being too sick for the operation or 90 and be approved. Just depends on their condition.
All that said, even if there are legitimate reasons to deny treatments in some cases, doctors routinely deny treatments for bad reasons too. It’s plausible that it’s worse in the U.S. than other places (I don’t know, personally) but I doubt this is unique to the U.S.
I failed in the title! My apologies. I said in a class that single-payer care seemed it would be more accessible to more citizens, after introducing an article claiming (probably correctly, or close to correctly) that 40% of Americans forego necessary medical care because we can't afford it, yet the US spends more on health care, per capita, than any other developed nation. She then told the related tale.
I don’t know about Canada specifically, but doctors do routinely weigh operations against the possible impact on quality of life. For example anesthetic can be a significant risk for elderly patients and the cure may end up being worse than the disease. How and if this happened in this case I can’t say but it’s one possible explanation.
Yes, I think she's just anti single-prayer. She also read us the Hippocratic oath and emphasized the part about not euthanizing anyone or assisting in abortion, while completely not saying anything about the diet mention.
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