#universalhealthcare Timeline

1d

Why Canadian-trained doctors should be allowed to practise anywhere in Canada without additional licensing
#Canada #Healthcare #Doctors #MedicalLicensing #HealthPolicy #PhysicianShortage #UniversalHealthcare #PublicHealth #MedicalAccess #DoctorShortage
https://the-14.com/why-canadian-trained-doctors-should-be-allowed-to-practise-anywhere-in-canada-without-additional-licensing/

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8d

I stand corrected.
We received a bill for my husband's trip to the French public hospital ER.

That was early February, 6 hours there.
1 lab test.
1 electrocardiogram
1 brain scan
Total: 297.74 euros ($322.42).
I've put the detail in the alt-text.

That's the bill with NO insurance.

I'm pretty, pretty, pretty sure it's still way below what people would pay in the US.

#healthcare #insurance #UniversalHealthcare #health #travel #europe #er

Detail of the bill from the ER of a French public hospital.
It shows what you pay (in euros) when you have no insurance.
Flat-fee Activity check-up (age 75+): 49.17
Supplement for insurance: 19.34
Flat-fee Normal technical (I guess the basic tests they do at the ER?): 99.69
Flat-fee ER: 19.61
Supplement biology (age 45+) (blood test): 55.50
Supplement scanner: 54.43

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19d

"Bad thing in another country horrifies, driving support for the opposite at home"

I think it helped in #Germany

I think it will help in #Canada

So the fate of the #USA is to be an example of what poor #gunControl, no #universalHealthcare, and what an unchecked #plutocrat-#bigot #political axis does to a motherfucker:

Sane observant #citizens in other #democracies can avoid our fate

🥴

"Anti-#Trump sentiment drives dramatic upturn in fortunes for Canada’s #Liberals"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/26/canada-liberal-party-poll

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41d

#healthcare #UShealthcare #universalhealthcare #centrists

Shaun
@shaun_vids

the centrists can't abide being
asked if the sick poor deserve
to live because they can't
honestly answer it with a yes

Shaun
@shaun_vids

every single person who doesn't
support a universal healthcare
system thinks that some people
who get sick and can't pay
deserve to die. that's just how it
is. sorry if that makes you
uncomfortable

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44d

New server, new #Introduction
Greetings! I am a resident of the Pacific Northwest, USA. Currently surviving the mess in the US as best I can, so I occasionally drop an F-bomb. Sorry, not sorry.

#HealthcareIsAHumanRight #UniversalHealthcare #Medicare4All #MedicareForAll #ProChoice #BansOffOurBodies #BlackLivesMatter #ReparationsNow #AntiWar #NoWar #NoJusticeNoPeace #TransLivesMatter #HousingIsAHumanRight #ClimateChangeIsReal #ClimateChange #AntiFascist #COVIDIsNotOver

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52d

Tamsin's pinned post on anarres.family, my new home instance.

Hello, anarres.family, all other servers, and all ships at sea!

Welcome to Tamsin's Pinned Post, which includes a few things you might want to know about me.

Yes, this is a new instance, which I intend to be my new home on the fediverse... but it's the same old nonsense.

Please enjoy your stay, unless you're a fascist, a racist, a transphobe, a homophobe, or any other flavor of garbage person, in which case please fix your heart or die. Your choice.

So, who the heck am I?

Hi! I'm Tamsin: a white #GenX #queer #sapphic #nonbinary #trans #woman who likes doorstopper novels, director's cuts of movies, extended remixes of songs and albums, tabletop roleplaying games, 5-string basses, double-cutaway Les Paul Jr. guitars, beaches, forests, mountains, witchy things, late nights, lazy afternoons, writing down half of everything she thinks, and living places that haven't outlawed her.

I'm happily monogamously married to a polymath superhero, and we share our lives with my marvelous teenaged offspring, two adorable cats, and a host of delightful friends and co-conspirators.

Things I post about, in no particular order: #gender, #sexuality, #queerness, #QueerTheory, #transgender stuff, #transfeminine stuff, #magic, #witchcraft, #music, #books, #movies, #TTRPGs, #ADHD, #politics, #philosophy, #spirituality, making things, and whatever else is going though my brain at any given moment.

When I talk about gender and sexuality, it's probably helpful to know that I hold a bachelor's degree in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies (with a focus on #feminist history, queer theory, and trans studies) from the University of Washington. This doesn't make me "right" or "authoritative," but it does mean I've done some reading on the topics. Sometimes I joke that I had to get a degree to realize I'm a gay trans girl... which isn't quite true, but still makes me laugh.

I'm exactly the kind of person who likes #ProgRock, #PunkRock, #PostPunk, #TripHop, #GirlyPop, #DarkFolk, #BlackMetal, '70s #funk, old-school #RnB, #BritishInvasion, #ArtRock, #AcidRock, #AcidFolk, anti-fascist #NeoFolk, #SingerSongwriter, #blues, #EarlyMusic, #minimalist composers, anime soundtracks, and everything #Prince ever recorded. Among other things.

Sometimes I make things. I craft, I cook, I play (and occasionally run) tabletop role-playing games, I play (and occasionally write) music and songs. Most of all, though, I write: essays, poetry, stories, and—this one time at band camp, when I was feeling particularly sassy—a whole-ass book about gender, sexuality, queerness, and magic for witches, Pagans, occultists, and devotional polytheists. (If you want to check it out, there's a link in my bio to the publisher's page.)

Politically, I started out as a liberal in the 1980s, but—flying in the face of conventional wisdom—became increasingly leftist as time went by. I believe all life is sacred, hegemony and hierarchy are intrinsically inclined towards abuse, and bodily autonomy is fundamental to human rights. I believe people can own and control things, but that people are not things. As such, I believe fascism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, and ableism are all evils of the human heart. I support #UniversalHealthcare, #UBI, BLM, #antifa, indigenous rights, #TransRights, queer resistance, sex workers, undocumented and migrant rights, disability rights, autistic people, plural folks, defunding the police, and radical inclusivity. Whatever name fits those beliefs, that's what I am. I'm not a wholly uncritical leftist, though, and I'm probably not ideologically pure enough for most movements. (Then again, I'm a futch-y trans #lesbian, so many leftist movements don't want me around anyway.)

About following and followbacks:
I'm trying to be intentional and judicious in how I use social media, so here's the deal: folks are welcome to follow my account here, but I don't automatically follow people back. That's not a judgement on you, please understand. It's an acknowledgement that I have a limited amount of mental and social bandwidth, and it's easy for me to get overwhelmed by my social media feed if I don't tend it aggressively.

The odds of me following you back are significantly higher if...
• you have a bio I find interesting,
• you're somewhere under the rainbow (LGBTQIA2S+),
• we share interests in common,
AND/OR
• you interact with my posts in a positive way often enough that I think, "hey, I like so-and-so, I think I'll send them a follow request."

The last condition might override any of the previous three, but the previous three do sway things, just saying. Regardless, anyone's welcome to follow my posts here.

About alts:
I have several other accounts around the fediverse, but I'm designating this one as my main account, my home instance, my primary incarnation on fedi. My other active alts as of 25.01.25 are:
• @TamsinSays: This is my secondary account, and may wind up being a writing-specific alt.
• @TimTams_After_Dark: This is my "spicy alt," which just means I talk about sex a little more freely and often. It's set to follower-only visibility.

Okay, I think that's about enough for now. Further updates as events warrant, or as I think of them.

Cheers! 💕

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71d

#universalhealthcare #religionispoison #taxthechurch

Tax all the churches to pay for universal healthcare.

You know it's what Jesus would have wanted.

(image of Joel Osteen)

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88d

Like in the #maga movement #LuigiMagione has inflamed a misplaced rage against the CEOS of #Healthcare corps
They ARE NOT the cause of the problem
They are symptoms of a bad (For Profit) system

I believe in the #FreeEnterprise system

It just has no place in the delivery of proper #universalHealthcare

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91d

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-often-do-health-insurers-deny-patients-claims
How Often Do Health Insurers Say No to Patients? No One Knows.
Insurers’ denial rates — a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care — remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that.
#Healthcare #HealthInsurance #UnitedHealthcare #CEO #FreeLuigi #FreeLuigiMangione #SinglePayer #UniversalHealthcare #USHealthcare #GuillotinesWork #Regulation

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94d

#USHealthcare

We won't tell you how much anything is in our for profit system. You will have NO idea how much any procedure or surgery will be. We'll offer you tylenol in the hospital but won't tell you it's $15. Because of the Sacklers people can't get real pain medication anymore. Of course you have to do a course of physical therapy with a slipped disc. That will fix it. You can only talk about 2 things when you get an appt with your GP, who is NOT a doctor. Make another appt.

25% of hospitals and healthcare networks are #Catholic run. Many people don't have a choice if they want to stay in network.

We pay more than any other country to get shitty healthcare, be in more pain, be disabled earlier, die younger, and have our rights taken.

#UHC
#BCBS
#DeathPanels #AIDeathPanels

#CEOs automate your denials, suffering, disability, and death.

It's all a con.

We want #UniversalHealthcare like civilized countries.

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95d

Americans!
How much of your #Healthcare DOLLAR goes towards corporate profits (shareholder & CEO salaries) and promotional costs (TV & internet commercials, promotional trips etc) ??
In countries with #universalHealthcare (Universal Healthcare) all those costs are saved making quality Healthcare more affordable

#Politics #USpolitics #USpoli #enemywithin #CDNpoli

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96d

Qasim Rashid's article debunking every right-wing talking point about #universalhealthcare is fantastic.

https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/debunking-every-myth-you-hear-against

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101d

Extraordinary!

"top internet sleuths refuse to solve #UnitedHealthcare #CEO’s murder"

thatdaneshguy: ‘I don’t have to encourage violence. I don’t have to condone violence by any means. But I also don’t have to help’

Savannah Sparks, asked if she is on the case: ‘Absolutely the f**k not’

TizzyEnt: ‘I have yet to see anyone online posting “we gotta find this guy, we gotta get him off the street”'

https://metro.co.uk/2024/12/07/top-internet-sleuths-refuse-solve-unitedhealthcare-ceos-murder-22142141/

let's translate the sentiment to the positive: #universalhealthcare.

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117d

And fewer people would list to Group 2, if we didn’t have a system where people weren’t screwed over on a daily basis by multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies and a multi-trillion-dollar healthcare industry.

#capitalism #postCapitalism #universalHealthCare #peopleBeforeProfit https://qoto.org/@medigoth/113519695162979128

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118d

#USHealthcare #HealthInsurance #UniversalHealthCare

Max Kennerly
@MaxKennerly

A notable aspect of private health
insurance is the absence of any
reason for it to exist. It does not
contain costs, expand coverage,
or expedite care—it makes
those all worse. Its sole function
is to profit as a rent-seeking
middleman between patients and
providers.

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118d

#universalhealthcare #Corporategreed #maternalhealth #freecollege

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158d

#universalhealthcare #democrats #harriswalz2024 #berniesanders

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180d

Again, America ranks last in healthcare. Until we demand the only solution, nothing will change.

America ranks last in healthcare among industrialized countries. We should be ashamed that the richest country in the world is this bad at keeping its citizens healthy. #MedicareForAll #SinglePayerHealthcare #UniversalHealthcare

https://egbertowillies.com/2024/09/19/again-america-ranks-last-in-healthcare-until-we-demand-the-only-solution-nothing-will-change/

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183d

#awareness #ableism #disability #disabled #aging #safetynets #SocialSecurity #medicare #universalhealthcare #UniversalBasicIncome

Studnificent:

Your chances of being able bodied your entire life are slim to none. It's always in your best interest to advocate for a more accessible world

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197d

Ya know, we're told we can't have universal healthcare because of long wait times, but these days

- primary doctors can't do same day appointments

- urgent care requires an appointment >24 hours most of the time

- ERs have day long wait times unless you're literally dying right that second

It seems like we have the worst combo: high costs AND long waits

#healthcare #universalhealthcare #medicare4all #doctorsoffice

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217d

#universalhealthcare #MedicareForAll #commonsense

Upstream:

the fact that your doctor can yell that you need a specific treatment and some guy at an insurance company can just be like "no" should alone be enough make us burn this system to the ground

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217d

#universalhealthcare #MedicareForAll

southernbelle @fortunafiasco

Requiring doctor's notes to excuse absences due to illness is inherently classist in a country w/o universal healthcare and I really wish we talked about it more.

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221d

Literally the *only* story I'm going to share about the goddamn Olympics:

U.S. Rugby player Ariana Ramsey found out athletes get free healthcare in the Olympic Village and immediately booked a bunch of appointments for routine services many Americans living under our dystopian private healthcare regime simply can't afford:

https://www.si.com/olympics/american-athletes-taking-full-advantage-of-free-healthcare-olympic-village-france

"Like, what?” she said in a post on TikTok describing her new discovery: The Olympic Village offers free healthcare.

The United States, of course, does not. So in the days following her victory, Ramsey made appointments with the Village gynecologist, dentist and ophthalmologist. According to the Paris 2024 organizing committee, the Village also offers cardiology, orthopedics, physiotherapy, psychology, podiatry and, of course, sports medicine—all at no cost to the athletes. (Paralympic athletes will also have access to dermatology.)"

The best part of the story is that Ramsey not only convinced a bunch of other U.S. Athletes to take advantage of the program, but after realizing how beneficial having access to free healthcare is, she's decided to become an advocate for Universal Healthcare in America.

On a personal level and as someone who has spent time in multiple countries that offer free healthcare to their citizens, I honestly cannot stress how much it improves not only health outcomes, but also quality of life for labor class people; from increasing your lifespan, to freeing workers from dependence on bad employers just to keep their health insurance, this is one social policy that has ripples throughout almost every aspect of the lives of everyday people. And it says a LOT about the priorities of the American ruling class that they'd do almost anything to keep you from having access to universal healthcare.

#UniversalHealthcare #USPol #Capitalism #Olympics

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222d

While some athletes have raved about the muffins and others have complained about the cardboard beds, some American Olympians are taking advantage of the free healthcare. Team USA rugby player Ariana Ramsey didn't just get a bronze medal in Paris — she's had a pap smear, X-ray, teeth cleaning, and an eye test. She's posted about this on TikTok, influenced other athletes in the Village to visit medical professionals, and now plans to fight for universal healthcare in the U.S. Here's more from Sports Illustrated.

https://flip.it/AIB6n7

#Olympics #Sports #USA #Healthcare #UniversalHealthcare