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2026-04-30 23:56 UTC

@violetmadder @TheGreatLlama I haven't seen any evidence to support that. The right is trying but it's very difficult to remove quality healthcare from people once they have it. Keeping people from getting it in the first place is a much easier fight.

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@violetmadder@kolektiva.social 2026-05-01 00:25

@weyoun6 @TheGreatLlama It's already been happening for years. Look at the UK, and the same process is there. Much the same as the process being used to destroy the US postal service too, while we're at it. First, change policies to reduce the funding, make sure the healthcare workers are understaffed and underpaid, reducing quality of care. Shut down small independent hospitals, especially in rural areas, and funnel resources into big corporate Walmart type hospitals. And so on. Until the quality of care is crashing and wait times go up-- then they beat the drum of privatization, and it's all downhill from there. Healthcare is being hoarded by the rich. Our life expectancy in the US is going down for a reason. COVID was left to run rampant, with no upgrades to ventilation and no masking in hospitals, for a reason. All other Western countries are being dragged along the same trajectory. Public health and preventative care get in the way of exploitation.

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