Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

nttnypride t1_jbawk82 wrote

But how would universal healthcare for all work in the US? There’s so few examples, just Canada or France or Germany or Costa Rica or Spain or Ireland or Tunisia or Portugal or Norway or Australia or Japan or Netherlands or Iceland or New Zealand or Sweden or United Arab Emirates or….

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jkooc137 t1_jbauzx6 wrote

Ah yes, the go fund me healthcare method, one of the main defects of the American medical system. If only there were some way to just take a little bit of money from everyone's paycheck and put it towards covering the cost of healthcare for literally everyone. "This naive take that everything should be free" like universal, tax funded, and not for profit healthcare systems just don't exist; not to mention they function better because people are more likely to go to the doctor regularly and catch health problems earlier which makes them significantly cheaper and easier to treat. Obviously these guys are saying that EVERYTHING should be free, and definitely not that extortion by price gouging the things people literally need to survive is wrong. It must suck to have to come up with flawed arguments to defend a system that generates a demonstrably worse outcome. Can't be one of those radicals who think taxes should go to social services instead just to the military industrial complex.

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HomicidalHushPuppy t1_jbaupqi wrote

The list of doctors who are authorized to prescribe is hilarious - dermatologists, hair loss specialists, plastic surgeons, etc. Almost none of the qualifying conditions are treated by such doctors. There's one on the list who's registered address is his personal house, but I can't find any records of him actually practicing in PA. The bureaucratic BS citizens have to put up with is infuriating yet there seems to be little oversight of the prescribers.

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awuweiday t1_jbas4a6 wrote

It's such a dumb take too. The packaging is completely different, usually including child-proof locks. We have a wide variety of alcoholic drinks flavored and styled after every kind of soda. I'm a grown adult who wants to get high off desserts in my living room. Why does the government have any say in that?

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drxdrg08 t1_jbardx6 wrote

Why don't both of you send a check to cover her expenses?

Doctors aren't going to work for free, and medical equipment costs money. Somebody has to pay for it.

This naive take that everything should be free, and if it's not then it's a grave inhumane injustice is getting old.

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