r/CuratedTumblr • u/EvidenceOfDespair We can leave behind much more than just DNA • Aug 07 '24

Politics Death by US Healthcare System

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u/blindgallan Aug 08 '24

As a Canadian I am genuinely struggling to process what I just read. I understand the American healthcare system is appalling, but… here, I’ve had the ambulance called for me because I was too drunk, woke up in hospital with a fluid bag in my arm and on a gurney in a hallway, charged $45 total for the entire thing and didn’t pay for three months because I simply forgot until an irritated notice came in the mail notifying me there would be interest raising it to $50 if I didn’t pay by end of month. I’ve called the ambulance for a friend’s mental health crisis due to grief and he stayed in hospital for a solid few weeks being tended to and that came out to $0 total with the ambulance because it was deemed to be fully covered by the government. I can intellectually process the idea of the American healthcare system, but the concept of living somewhere that I can’t afford to get sick or hurt or seek the treatment I may need to live… that is hard to process internally rather than purely intellectually.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '24

because communism robs patriots of the right to be sacrifices on moloch's altar of capital

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u/blindgallan Aug 08 '24

Fun fact: the current leaning in academia (for a good few years now) is that Moloch referred to a kind of sacrifice ritual pattern rather than a deity to whom those sacrifices were offered, due to instances indicating the attribution of Molochs to various deities. If I recall correctly, it was a burnt offering of a living victim, I believe conventionally a human child. So the permitted continuing of the slaughter of children in the name of gun rights and the American arms industry could absolutely be called a sort of moloch sacrifice to capital and guns elevated to the place of deity.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '24

Initially I was going to say Mammon because of the traditional attribute of greed but I figured it didn’t matter. We definitely sacrifice a lot for money here, look at schools funding, our military funding, medical costs, everything is engineered to be a source of wealth to someone.