US "Healthcare" is making Covid-19 Worse.
That's neither my cynicism nor hyperbole. It comes from a column or article by Kat Eschner that Popular Science dropped into my inbox yesterday: The American healthcare system is only making COVID-19 worse “We don’t really have a system.”. It's pretty short and you can read it here: https://www.popsci.com/story/science/healthcare-paid-sick-leave-coronavi... Some highlights:
Researchers say that the American healthcare system could make the outbreak much worse. In fact, “We don’t really have a system,” says Lynn Blewett, a professor of health policy and management at the University of Minnesota who studies access to care. The term “system” implies a unified plan, she says, and the patchwork of public and private care providers and millions of uninsured people that currently characterize American medicine isn’t that.
Speaking about the lack of nationwide sick leave requirements, the author notes that:
And it’s part of a broader picture of lax health-related national policy, says Nicolas Ziebarth, a Cornell University professor of policy analysis and Management. Ziebarth is the author of several studies on paid sick leave that confirm White’s findings. In two recent papers, he says, “we find clear evidence… that infection rates decrease significantly when cities and states pass these mandates.”
The United States is at greater risk than other industrialized countries from the COVID-19 outbreak, he says. Why? “We have a really bad social safety network.” Things like universal access to healthcare and paid sick leave mandates are just two of the things that could improve it, he says.
The really bad news, per the author and Ms. Blewett, is that things are unlikely to change despite what should be a wake up call. That has be be the understatement of the year; Joe Biden is the insurance companies' insurance against the institution of anything resembling a real healthcare system and the bosses protection against any sort of sick leave legislation and you know that Trump sure isn't going to do anything that might improve things either.
Give it a read, it's worth it.
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Afternoon, doh, very cogent points. Thanks.
have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
We are being told that there is no money for us
and yet the fed is bailing out Wall Street by $1.5 trillion!
We can just die if we can't afford treatment. Nice.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
^^^This!^^^^ (n/t)
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
$1.5 trillion today and it still plunged 10%
Will it recover tomorrow as that $1.5 trillion makes its way through the bond markets? Or will the response from the market be, "Nice try Fed, but we need a lot more"
A certain someone is paying attention
RIGHT?!
That's enough to wipe out student debt ffs. But sure, let's throw it at the stock market instead, why not!
This is fucking insanity. I want off this ride!
This shit is bananas.
I will pick you up
on my way out of town. I want off this ride too.
How many years have people been bitching about how we can't afford to pay off student debt and yet looky here they just gave that amount of money to rich people..... hell yes I want off this effing ride.
I don't know what more people need to see for them to finally get it through their heads that their government doesn't give two shits about them. And congress just decided not to pass anything that would help us and now they are going out for two weeks on recess. Sweet huh?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
BuT HoW wILl wE PaY fOr iT??!!?!
Just like this, fucking create the money!
I dunno man. Time for guillotines!
This shit is bananas.
Democrats are asking for merely $2 billion for us
But that is too much for McConnell.
McConnell said that democrats are asking for the kitchen sink and he won't stand for it. Of course not. His donors have worked very hard to roll back what companies pay their workers.
But there is some good news. McConnell has cancelled recess and congress will stay in town to get something for us.
Hmm $1.5 trillion - $2 billion = ? I'm lousy at math.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
There is also plenty of money for massive war games
30,000 US troops deployed to Europe for war games in 9 countries just in case Russia decides to do something that they are not planning on doing. Just in case things weren't dicey enough. And they are not being given masks. Well done.
And we just took our nukes out of Turkey. Yay. Except we moved them into Poland. One of the countries Russia warned them to not do. But yeah Trump is totally Putin's puppet right? Good lord will this get the stupid people to wake the hell up and see that they have been lied to?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
math
1.5 trillion = 1500 billion
1500 billion - 2 billion = 1498 billion = 1.498 trillion
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
What were the words Paul Simon sang?
. . . and the people bowed and prayed
to the neon god they made (1964)
A scary observation for those that have read Klein
no teleprompter here
Houston "region" testing capacity: 29 tests/day
What of the "world renound" Medical Center? 29 goddamn tests per day?
The greater Houston area has "6,997,384 people as of 2018 census estimates", according to Wikipedia.
Approximately 10,000 square miles!
29 tests per day.
Wow.
Just.
Fucking.
Wow!
Source: 10pm, ABC, Houston news, heard, re-wound, listened to it again, by me.
The mayor (Sylvester Turner) shut down the rodeo yesterday afternoon, 11 days early, which has never happened, not ever. The day before, it hit record attendance. They inducted Selina into the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Hall of Fame or whatever it's called, that day. A positive case has already been traced to the rodeo.
Italy, here we come!
Hand Me My Leather.
[video:https://youtu.be/qXoCCUCnhow]
Good thing I didn't get a ticket
to see the animal abuse !
Take care, chica, and always let me know if you need anything, ok?
I am headed to bed.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I've been pondering this for a few days
as the reported number of tests administered has been very slow -- even for those stuck on that cruise ship. The original claim was there was a shortage of test kits. Could be true, but if so, it means that increasing the production of the test kits isn't feasible. More likely to me is that the bottleneck is the labs and a shortage of those skilled workers. They can't afford to waste the lab resources on millions of negative tests. And just because a person tests negative today, doesn't mean that she/he couldn't become infected tomorrow. However, a negative test result would give many people a false sense of security and overlook or dismiss early symptoms because they believe they are in the clear.
At this point the tests are being restricted to those that exhibit symptoms similar enough to CoVid-19 to guide and protect health care workers and manage the patient to prevent him/her from transmitting it to others. However, it's also probable that the test can only detect the virus once the person is symptomatic.
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