I see a lot of the 'we should prioritize cities over restoring rural healthcare' discussion and wonder how this is different than the 'Fuck the South' people that ignore the perfectly fine people living there trying to make things better.
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There *is* a good bit of that sort of discourse around, but OP isn’t engaging in it. Just pointing out that we’re helpless to avert it now. It’s awful.
aug 29, 2025, 8:16 pm • 1 0 • view
It is going to take an economic triage to fix healthcare. You can put money into hospitals that serve a population of 100K or 10K. And don't forget, there are still states that don't fund Medicaid expansion so healthcare providers are stuck with a high % of unreimbursed services.
aug 31, 2025, 3:29 am • 1 0 • view
Because this was all a preventable and well known thing that was going to happen if they kept voting Republicans over 40 years ago, and they kept voting Republicans. There have been literal decades of politicians trying, and failing, to stop this before it happened and they lost to the death cult.
aug 29, 2025, 8:46 pm • 8 0 • view
And it bothers people, btw. It bothers city folk cause we blatantly DO have the money to not just staff and run rural hospitals and urban hospitals, we have enough money to make medicine free universally and make it a significantly better system But deathpanel fearmongering made deathpanels happen
aug 29, 2025, 8:47 pm • 5 0 • view
Yeah, this is what pisses me off the most. We're probably the wealthiest nation ever - everyone should have safe housing, food and healthcare! We have the resources, collectively, but the assholes we keep voting in are determined to amass all the wealth for themselves.
aug 29, 2025, 9:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Ugh, apologies for the echo of 'very fine people,' not intended.
aug 29, 2025, 8:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep. And what too many people don't realize is that this started back in the Eisenhower era. The plan is to get it cleared of everyone but the rich, and leave rural areas for rich people to play without being contaminated by exposure to ordinary people.
aug 29, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
it’s different because resources are finite and are now severely constrained; it’s not about whether those people are good or bad and it’s not about what anyone deserves, it’s about deciding how to best allocate what we have left to work with.
aug 29, 2025, 8:11 pm • 29 1 • view
Tax the rich
aug 29, 2025, 8:24 pm • 3 0 • view