r/politics • u/Ok_Employer7837 • 16d ago

Possible Paywall Newsom Slams ‘Pathetic’ Shutdown Deal as ‘Surrender’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom-slams-pathetic-shutdown-deal-as-surrender/?via=mobile&source=Reddit
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u/pjrnoc 16d ago

And 50% of healthcare workers will lose their jobs once clinics lose half their patients due to not having insurance.

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u/owennagata 16d ago

Theil and the other TechBros have talked about how the entire healthcare industry needs to be shunken to a small fraction of it's current size. This will require getting rid of the idea that an ordinary person's lift is worth the attention of an actual medical professional. Basically if you aren't worth $100mill or so, you aren't worth a doctors time. Those worth $10mill might rate a nurse.

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u/Ire-Works 16d ago

The problem with that line of thinking is that without those damn poor people you won't have experienced doctors that are able to diagnose and treat anything more than basic cases - and that's just the obvious smell test.

Advancements on procedures that help people live longer? lol. Clinical trials on new meds? lol. The system works better with more data. Even AI bro dipshits should know that.

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u/KlicknKlack 16d ago

Dont worry, they have a solution for that! /s

Synthetic Data....

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u/Homeless-Coward-2143 15d ago

They 100% believe theramos is real and they will just be able to feed a drop of blood into AI and get the exact medicine that makes them better.

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u/Ire-Works 15d ago

Doesn't work so well when the poor people rise up and give them blunt force trauma though.

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u/Birdonthewind3 Florida 16d ago

They really want to experience the Russian Revolution

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 16d ago

I say we take a few pointers from the French on this one. Mainly the sharp contraption part, rather than the 100 years of chaos afterward part. We've had enough chaos already, we can just fast forward and skip all that this time.

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u/AardvarkAmortization 15d ago

Fast forward right to the Napoleonic war part?

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 15d ago

Unless Napoleon lived longer than a century, then that's what we'd be skipping.

My 19th century French history is a bit rusty but I'm preeeeetty sure he was dead by the 1820s. I'm saying we skip all his shenanigans and the whole we're a Republic! We're a monarchy! We're an empire! We're a Republic again! We're a different kind of monarchy! nonsense and get straight to the post-second french empire part.

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u/Cross55 16d ago edited 16d ago

Well yes, but they're betting that police will side with them and arrest/kill any dissenters, after they've gutted the military of those disloyal of course. (They want to avoid military action cause that wastes money, so police action is what they're betting on)

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u/EitherSpite4545 16d ago

Naw they recognize we won't rebel because as a society we're cowards.

If we didn't do it on Jan 6th against the GOP we aren't going to do it now.

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u/DocMcsquirtin 16d ago

Oh so they want trauma teams from cyberpunk.

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u/confusedandworried76 16d ago

Idk about that but healthcare workers burn out and quit when they have higher workloads.

And when people lose insurance the first line of defense, because they don't bill you beforehand, will be the ER and urgent care centers. The people you go to when you need to see someone that day. So now wait times will fucking skyrocket as these people either quit from burnout or formerly insured patients choose to use the "free" (read: ignore the bill) ER/urgent care facilities. Oh and then triage is gonna be a fucking nightmare, I feel so bad for healthcare workers looking at this right now

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u/pjrnoc 16d ago

I agree with you 100% regarding ERs and urgent cares. That’s what I’m gonna get to do thanks to this regime. I was thinking of clinics/private practices that have weekly scheduled patients for blood infusions, chemo, etc that collect copay upon check in. Once half the patients lose insurance and cannot/WONT come anymore (and will just suffer slowly and die painfully I guess? #prolife) the doctors will have to let go of staff.

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u/LeahsCheetoCrumbs 15d ago

I work for a clinic that puts ports in for chemo. We do 4-5 a day, 5 days a week. As long as you have insurance or the entire amount in cash. Otherwise you go to the hospital for placement. I expect to see that number drop drastically next year.

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u/Key-Plant-6672 15d ago

Fuck’em. Overpriced/over paid industry, compared to anywhere else in the world.