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@TrevorGoodchild @dissidentsoaps @sickburnbro @Shadowman311 @LostShakerOfSalt @transgrammaractivist the entire "payment problem" boils down to the ugly problem of how much it is reasonable to expect somebody to pay for "reasonable" (not necessarily even "heroic") medical care over the course of a lifetime and how you can force them to do it once they consume the service; medical care is one of those goods for which there is approximately infinite demand, especially in a culture that values life, youth, and health above all else

there are all kinds of notional permutations, but they all wind up looking like something we already know about and don't want: the HMO, the insurance company, gummint healthcare, and so forth

there seems to be a limited amount of novel ideas in this equation, and some new ideas are sorely needed

@VaxxSabbath @TrevorGoodchild @dissidentsoaps @sickburnbro @Shadowman311 @LostShakerOfSalt @transgrammaractivist If
1) The condition itself is curable or treatable
2) The illness is teratogenic or a life injury or infection, and cannot be passed onto children
3) Children can in principle be had, ie the patient is of breeding age
Society has an interest and benefits from covering and expediting the cure fully.

In all other cases, private healthcare and insurance is the only option, and where that fails and the person is suffering too much, charity is the option. I believe we are a charitable people, and without nonwhite leeches on the system, charity can handle a LOT.

(Its also in the interest of the nation to fund preventative measures, and research new cures and treatments, but thats not healthcare per se)

@epictittus @VaxxSabbath @TrevorGoodchild @dissidentsoaps @sickburnbro @Shadowman311 @LostShakerOfSalt @transgrammaractivist >research new cures and treatments, but thats not healthcare per se

FWIW, this is hugely expensive. For many reasons, but fundamentally it's just hard. Because of this, sticker price on treatments for boutique diseases is hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nobody is paying that. Nobody can. But by any fair definition it certainly is healthcare.

(Pharma has gotten a black eye recently, but there is quite a lot of non-shitty things going on in that sphere. Dismissing our alchemists and sorcerers out of hand is not a good idea.)

Charity can be useful, but it's not a magic wand. Charity is a byproduct of wealth, and we're not in a great place for that now. It's one thing to give excess canned food to a food pantry; it's an entirely other thing to gift an MRI.

Healthcare is insensitive to price signals because it's a different beast than other services. It is highly sensitive to regulation. And it operates on a long timeline, requiring a certain amount of inertia or it falls behind quickly.

IMO, any solution that does not involve the medical schools and teaching hospitals in a prominent role is not going to work. They are the flywheels of this engine, and you risk ruin if you don't keep them spinning. This falls quite clearly in the public sphere.

@JoshuaSlocum @epictittus @TrevorGoodchild @dissidentsoaps @sickburnbro @Shadowman311 @LostShakerOfSalt @transgrammaractivist Pharma gets a black eye because between Hollywood accounting, "screw-the-American" price-gouging, and their customary array of dirty tricks, half-truths and outright lies (and we haven't even gotten into the iceberg of ethical collapse that is the COVID debacle), they are transparently in need of Serious Supervision and they are certain to get it, it simply hasn't happened yet

a White American being told that he's in a position where he needs to liquidate his life earnings and sell his house to pay for a treatment that

niggers in his own country get for free
niggers in other countries also get for free
Eurofags get at ridiculously reduced prices
chinks and pajeets just outright steal

....after having paid for the development of the thing in the first place in a multitude of ways both gross and subtle inspires the very reasonable belief that "there is something wrong with this picture", and that belief is going to transmute into action in the not terribly distant future

(this action may start out retarded, but it won't stay there)

there are a lot of people who will make noises about how that's all unpossible, and lmao, well, no it isn't and that will be demonstrated very clearly; the first demonstration will be when all of the executives of the various pharma companies are hauled out of their HQs and hanged, at which point further reforms happen at high speed and with lots of enthusiasm

there's nothing about the high risk of failure in pharma research that indicates that its current structure is either necessary or desirable, and indeed that structure, examined from a distance, clearly suggests that the entire thing is a giant Ponzi scheme that needs to be bathed in Zyklon to return to something vaguely resembling "social utility"

@VaxxSabbath @JoshuaSlocum @epictittus @TrevorGoodchild @sickburnbro @Shadowman311 @LostShakerOfSalt @transgrammaractivist The American White man is the tax cattle that pays for everything you listed, and our political leaders let us get gouged because they don’t care about us.
European countries simply dictate acceptable prices to pharma companies.

@dissidentsoaps @JoshuaSlocum @epictittus @TrevorGoodchild @sickburnbro @Shadowman311 @LostShakerOfSalt @transgrammaractivist yeah, it's funny how it be like that

the proper cure for that is to tell the eurofags that either they split the costs for the research and we pay the same price for the drugs, or they get stomped and lose access to everything; if the research is taking place in (what used to be) a high-trust community such as the US, with all of the benefits of doing that work here, then that has an attendant cost that everybody else is gonna pay too for access to the same goods or they're not gonna get them

this requires that we be "an actual real country" and not simply a bazaar/resource colony bridging the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, though

Ok Today is the day SEATTLE WASHINGTON FALSE FLAG FAKE NUKE OR A CONTROL DEMOLITION

Saudi Arabia Just Ditched The US Dollar (How This Affects You) https://youtube.com/watch?v=yolCkHT1S_o&si=Osqic4AAMQW3Zfb2

"Traditional dating is gone"

There is no traditional dating. It's by definition progressive, before dating it was courtship under the father's supervision

Trope Talk: Loners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kDgvpa5k4g