• Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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    21 days ago

    Pick any rural county, and you can find a bus load of people who’ve been screwed over or denied care by health insurance. And for those who do not have a specific, personal grudge, healthcare options in the sticks are increasingly geographic monopolies run by a single provider, with a Byzantine network of in/out network insurers.

    Someone driving their mother four hours for biweekly dialysis or cancer care because the local provider is not covered is going to be pissed. A parent buying their child because the local provider ‘streamlined’ care while slashing nursing headcount is going to be a lot more than pissed.

    • Rakonat@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Reason #2193 we should have switched over to universal healthcare decades ago. For profit healthcare and services undermine the very thing they are supposed to provide

    • uis@lemm.ee
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      19 days ago

      Pick any rural county, and you can find a bus load of people who’ve been screwed over or denied care by health insurance.

      Any examples of country with public transport and without UHC?