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@servelan@newsie.social
2024-03-11 00:34:20

Denied care: How #racism caused America's expensive health care crisis
dailykos.com/stories/2024/01/1

Denied care: How racism caused America's expensive health care crisis
This is part one of a two-part series on racism in health care. Part 2 is here. Despite being the sole high-income nation in the world without universal health care, the United States government refuses to recognize basic medical care as a fundamental...

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2024-05-01 14:59:20

Happy Dental Care Day Canada!! (at least if you're over 70 without private insurance)
I hope that in time this will become part of universal single-payer healthcare (along with Drug Coverage) and eliminate private insurance for health needs, but it's a start at least. And it happened because a centre-left party, the NDP, has an agreement to work with the minority government.
#CdnPoli

Canada's dental care plan begins today. Here's what you need to know | CBC News
Canada’s national dental care plan begins covering 1.7 million seniors today — the first phase of a massive public oral health-care insurance program that eventually will cover one quarter of Canadians. But many patients may still be kept waiting to get their dental visits covered.

@MediaActivist@todon.eu
2024-03-19 23:31:53

Please don't use terms like "mainstream media" (or "MSM") when referring to establishment media. There is nothing "mainstream" about under-representing, dismissing, or ignoring popular policies like taxing the rich, public ownership of key industries, investment in free universal health care, or addressing the climate emergency -- and certainly nothing mainstream about using state and corporate media networks to provide public relations for the 1%. That is t…