Murder Cultists are about to @ me
Frank Casa @ frank @frank.casa Posts 0Comments 69Joined 8 mo. ago
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How? I never said we abolish hospitals run by charities or religious organizations. You can have a government-run healthcare system run alongside charities and religious organizations. I don't think hospitals should be for profit, though. But the government does not have to be your only choice.
Of course, this just highlights the problem with centralized care. If local universal care run by the government turns away people because it is underfunded, what do you think a nationwide government run healthcare system will do when it is underfunded? The same thing! They will deny care just like the insurance companies do. And you won't have any choice in the matter since they are the only provider and/or they control the money spent on your healthcare.
As I said, the system is not perfect and it needs to be improved. And it is better than Canada telling people to choose euthanasia because the government doesn't want to pay for their care, or when the UK denied care to a little girl, and then refused to let her leave the country to get healthcare elsewhere. They don't provide universal healthcare either, despite their claims.
Yes, unfortunately it does not get a lot of publicity. Most people outside of Texas don't even know something like this exists.
Here is the one for Harris County, Texas. #^https://www.harrishealth.org/about-us/harris-health
Other major counties in Texas have this as well.
Yes, we already have that in many major counties in Texas, and it seems to be working very well. We provide universal healthcare, unlike the rest of the country, and yet taxes are still low, and people have a choice of providers.
I would still make some recommendations that would make it better. Now we just need to refine and duplicate the model nationwide.
Before the greedy consolidated healthcare into mega-organizations and privatized hospitals, most hospitals were run by charities, religious organizations, and local governments (usually counties). People paid cash for routine healthcare, which kept prices low, and had major medical insurance for major expenses. People had control over their healthcare.
The system was not perfect, but it was a lot better than what we have today. And we can do a lot of things to make such a system better, such as requiring hospitals to provide indigent care to those who cannot afford to pay (i.e. free or reduced cost healthcare) in exchange for not paying taxes. If they chose not to provide indigent care, then they are taxed, and that tax money is used to fund government-run hospitals and clinics.
You don't have to centralize healthcare to provide universal healthcare. There are a number of ways to do it.
How decentralized is Funkwhale? Does everything go through their website, or do you host your own version and you get the music directly from the artists?
This is what I suspected. I can get behind blocking actual Neo Nazis and hate groups, and illegal content, but when it becomes "blocking anyone who disagrees with me" that can easily be abused, especially if the people running the list can't tell the difference between Nazis, MAGA, Republicans, Centrists, and Libertarians. Or someone who can't tell the difference between a tankie, a communist, a socialist, a democratic socialist, or an anarchist. Contrary to some people's beliefs, all of these things are not the same.
People are welcome to block whomever they wish and have the power to curate their own feeds, but when someone else does it, and there is no way to opt out of that, then it becomes censorship or suppression of information.
Context: If you want to give people choice and power in healthcare, you need to decentralize it, not centralize it. Because greedy people like centralization since it gives them money and power.
Makes sense. Universal healthcare advocates and insurance CEOs both want a monopoly, one by the government and the other by capitalists. Either way, you have no choice in the matter. They dictate whether you get healthcare or not.
And someone who is against Nazis might want to read Mien Kamph, not because they agree with Hitler, but because they want to understand the enemy so they can be better equipped to stop Nazis.
Are they blocking illegal content (such as content that promotes violence or issues threats) and content against the terms of service (like hateful, trolling, or disrespectful content)?
Or are they banning people based on their political beliefs or who they voted for, even if their content is not political in any way whatsoever?
And how are they defining alt right? A literal Neo Nazi? Or someone who voted Republican?
There has been a power struggle in the Democratic Party, and the old guard that were centrists have largely been replaced by those who lean farther left. But both are still fighting over power within the party. In fact, one of the main complaints of Democratic voters is that their beliefs had not changed, but the Democrat Party moved farther and farther away from their beliefs.
I agree, in the sense that I think that a lot of Democrats are indeed centrists, and the Green Party is probably more consistent with what Europeans think is left.
But the current Democratic Party is not was it was 15 to 20 years ago, when it was a centrist, arguably corporatist party. It is not the party of Obama anymore. Now it is divided between corporatists and socialists. It would be inaccurate to call them status quo now, at least on the social end of things, considering all of the changes they are trying to embed into society.
I am not sure if that is the case anymore. In many countries, like the U.S., the left and right have moved, and the center is not really represented by any party anymore. And considering the economy and the problems they see in society, the center wants change these days, not the status quo.
Sounds interesting, but how would these currencies be translated into fiat currency (USD, EURO, YEN, etc.)? Because ultimately people need to pay for housing and food with their country's chosen currency, and that is one of the main reasons why people sell stuff.
Please! He's probably the only person fit for the job.
And that is why I take drama-mean.
Interesting. So, basically allowing both.
It is good to have open discourse, but generally with things like this, the most vocal and active people determine what is acceptable or not. Rules or not, when everyone in a community disagrees with someone, most people go somewhere else sooner or later. Unless they are a troll or evangelist or masochist.
Open discussion can work in some communities, but there has to be a mutual interesting in finding the truth. If, instead, everyone is out to promote their agenda, it does not work so well.
Flat earth? Were they trolling or really believed that stuff? A lot of flat earthers are just trolls that don't even believe what they are posting. They're just trying to get a reaction.
The United States is huge. You could fit all of Europe inside the U.S. Yet they don't have ONE Europe-wide healthcare system. Each country has their own. At the very least, each state should have its own health care system, although a local network would be better. And we should not abolish charity and religious organizations from running hospitals. They should be part of the health care ecosystem as well. That way people have a choice in care since there are multiple providers.