68,000 Americans die every year from lack of healthcare. But sure, tell me more about the ‘real threat.’

Posted by Significant-Sir-4343

21 Comments

  1. Only American corporations are allowed to kill American citizens through action or inaction.

  2. Also Americans (not Iranians) killing Americans at schools. Yet Republicans ignore that too.

  3. >For-profit healthcare institutions are investor-owned entities that prioritize generating profit for shareholders, often operating like traditional businesses.

    Combine that with for profit war … I think we’re on to something here.

  4. “As long as us rich folk keep getting richer, who gives a fuck about anything else? Well, WE don’t give a fuck about anything else. And we don’t give a fuck about what anyone else gives a fuck about. Eat cake, motherfuckers.”

  5. Americans falling down stairs kills about 9k a year. It’s winter, figured Rafael would be in Mexico…

  6. 1000 Americans die every year from cold weather and can’t fly off to somewhere warmer.

  7. beekeeper1981 on

    Most of the deaths resulted from these forever wars which I thought they were supposedly against. Going to war under false pretenses (Iraq) and loosing people is to be expected.

    It’s almost like wars make more terrorism happen. So let’s continue repeating that mistake. Maybe we can kill our way to a peaceful world.

    Maybe Iran hates America for overthrowing a democracy and installing monarch and for their attacks and militarization of the region.

    Failing to prevent war is incompetence. Starting war is straight up evil.

  8. And we are now spending three times as much money attacking Iran each day as it would take to have medicare cover EVERY medical expense in the US not currently already covered by medicare. (about 1.3 billion per day).

  9. We need to be clear that many of them have insurance they have been paying for decades. Many of them have Medicare they paid for their entire working life. They just can’t afford the co-pays.

    This is the ideal profit model for capitalist healthcare: you pay for years, then can’t afford the co-pay and die. Maximum profit.

  10. Both_Lychee_1708 on

    Even more from anti-vax covid :

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/republicans-died-double-democrats-covid-b2227425.html

    >Nearly twice as many Republicans died from Covid-19 than Democrats did, a new study has found.

    >“The gap in excess death rates between Republicans and Democrats is concentrated in counties with low vaccination rates and only materializes after vaccines became widely available,” the study says.

    > Despite the fact that the initial runs of Covid-19 vaccines were developed during Donald Trump’s administration, many Republicans and conservatives refused innoculation. Response to the coronavirus pandemic was politicised, resulting in many Republicans refusing to take the vaccine, either as a result of misinformation spread by conspiracy communities and right-wing media figures and lawmakers, or simply due to a lack of trust in the Biden administration.

    and then in this term he went full anti-vax with RFK, JR and we have measles and deaths thereof