even if you have public healthcare on your country, the strategy as of late is pulling more and more money from these services so they become garbage and they have an easy excuse to sell us privatization.
at least thats what currently happening in my country.
i only heard of canada doing this in the news, what other countries do you know? i don’t doubt you i’m just curious (search results gimme lame paywalled articles or listicles…)
they are doing this since about 2016-ish in brazil.
as a brazilian, heres some nuance: the “”““great progressive left wing””“” (notice the big quotes) in power today was expected to undo it, but they literally made it worse as one of their first decisions.
things are expected to get much worse this year. thats because up until 2023 we had exceptions for covid and the transition away from a literal fascist who wanted to military coup our asses.
if you want to know more about it, its a policy they are calling “teto de gastos” or more recently “arcabouço fiscal”. maybe they expect the new complicated, aristocratic sounding name will discourage our purposefully uneducated population from discussing it.
edit - let me use that opportunity to say fuck lula, he looks progressive and his mouth says progressive things but his actual governing is no better than biden today despite his glorious past organizing his ML party at the time and actually based strikes.
Hearing Cancer cost payments as someone who lost someone close due to cancer makes me furious. Like I literally cannot handle hearing the prices because it’s such OBVIOUS FUCKING PROOF that the bourgeoisie cares more about Cash than Human Life! Normally that would sound like a hamfisted portrayal of a bad guy in a shitty book, but it’s real, it’s all around us, people who could give less than one tenth of a fuck if we live or die, as long as the checks come in, the life-saving medicine does. Even if it ISN’T life-saving and they pass away soon after, they still charge amounts that -as Parenti says- would make the Pharaohs blush
“I need stitches”
“OK!”
Damn this made me laugh
