Literally the subheading of the article
Complètement diminuées, des personnes atteintes de Covid long font face à des délais de plus deux ans pour savoir si elles auront droit ou non à une rente AI. Incapables de travailler, certaines finissent ruinées.
In english:
Completely disabled, people stricken by long COVID face delays of more than two years to know if they will have disability benefits. Incapable of working, some finish bankrupt.
Is this not an example of medical bankruptcy ie. bankruptcy due to a medical condition?
It’s about bankrupcy due to a medical condition.
Yes, resulting from lack of treatment and delay in paying disability benefits.
The main message I get from the cartoon is.
“Deaths that result from bureaucracy are murders just like deaths that result from weapon use”
It’s true that this cartoon was specifically made in response to Luigi’s case and is intended to represent Brian Thompson. But I think it can be applied more widely.
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
Trump has killed far more people than Luigi
wait do english speaking people know Asterix et Obelix???
I never expected to see it referenced here
Dude I’ve lived in France, Switzerland, Austria, and the UK.
I’m not trying to tell you universal healthcare is bad. I’ve never said the US system is better, in fact it’s far worse. Don’t straw man me.
All I said is the statistics on the meme are false and ignore a lot of suffering and death. And you took that as a personal attack on universal healthcare.
Doesn’t every county Texas hand one out to you as a coming of age gift when you turn 18? Or was the cartoon I watched as a kid lying.
That’s not how it works in my country. Great that that’s how your country works. The vast majority of those with universal healthcare don’t work like that.
I used to work for a disability advocacy organisation so I can assure you that.
You’re vastly underestimating the number of disabled and poor people and you’re vastly overestimating the number of things that are covered.
I get your proud of your country or your system or whatever, but please don’t minimise the experience of already marginalised groups.
An article just yesterday about the same happening in Switzerland
Sorry then.
I guess me living my entire life in a system with universal healthcare, being denied treatments that could have prevented me going deaf and needing a feeding tube is all in my imagination.
The treatments for these werent extreme. It was a fairly simple drug therapy that costs around 5’000 Euro per year and is sold in my country.
It just isn’t on the list of drugs covered by public health insurance. As I’m surviving on 12k per year disability benefits, I could not afford the treatment.
But just because it never impacted you you assume my experience doesn’t exist, because you have the privilege that the system never didn’t work for you, so you assume it works for everyone.
For sure. But now imagine your disabled and on disability income, where you get payed 1k a month and are living in poverty.
There are public health systems that just won’t offer that operation. Or you’ll have a 1.5 year waiting list. So in the end, unless you’re rich and pay for private insurance, it comes out as the same.
(Edit: since someone thought my take is because I’m american and don’t understand. I’m european, have lived most my life in europe, this is from lived experience)
Queensland's new laws will see children found guilty of serious crimes given harsher penalties.
> The Australian state of Queensland has passed laws which will see children as young as 10 subject to the same penalties as adults if convicted of crimes such as murder, serious assault and break-ins.
> The government says the harsher sentencing rules are in response to "community outrage over crimes being perpetrated by young offenders" and will act as a deterrent.
> But many experts have pointed to research showing that tougher penalties do not reduce youth offending, and can in fact exacerbate it.
> The United Nations has also criticised the reforms, arguing they disregard conventions on the human rights of children and violate international law.
> The Liberal National Party (LNP) - which won the state election in October - made the rules a hallmark of its campaign, saying they put the "rights of victims" ahead of "the rights of criminals"
I know it would be covenient to accept this meme as true, but it very much isn’t.
Just like insurance companies in the US don’t cover everything you need, sometimes even lifesaving treatment, the same (though less extreme) happens in nearly all public health systems.
I say this as someone who has gone through this and become tubefed and deaf as a result.
I’m deaf so watch with subtitles, guess it means basically nothing changes for me ahah!
Same as the disability community.
!gifs@lemmy.world is basically the same as short form videos.
Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16048514
> > Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/19499264
> Women’s health research is underfunded in both the private and public sectors. A recent reportfrom The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine found that about 9 percent of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) research spending between 2013 and 2023 went to women’s health research. > > The report also found that NIH grant funding has increased overall since 2013 in funds spent and projects funded. But the agency’s funding for women’s health research shrank every year between 2013 and 2023.
Complètement diminuées, des personnes atteintes de Covid long font face à des délais de plus deux ans pour savoir si elles auront droit ou non à une rente AI. Incapables de travailler, certaines finissent ruinées.
https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing---10-december-2024
Women’s health research is underfunded in both the private and public sectors. A recent reportfrom The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine found that about 9 percent of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) research spending between 2013 and 2023 went to women’s health research.
The report also found that NIH grant funding has increased overall since 2013 in funds spent and projects funded. But the agency’s funding for women’s health research shrank every year between 2013 and 2023.
Could they reasonably survive? If so, what would be the effects of such an introduction?
Dear Mom, Thirty years later, I finally understand. Do you remember the year 1994? You got sick when I was a child, and you weren’t ever the same again. At first, it was a cough and congestion But as days gathered into weeks, you spent more time in bed Why are you so tired, I asked myself. What happ...
I’m looking for news sites that offer anarchist perspectives.
I stumbled upon: https://www.anarchistnews.org/
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That can leave those suffering & grieving without the answers they desperately need.
As a person in the chronic pain community, I have watched that lead to immense suffering, unending grief and so much loss…and as a result increased self medicating, recklessness, suicides, requests for MAiD.
I understand how it gets there, because I live with #ChronicPain too. (Several types.)
And I struggle to hang on most days.
Especially in the face of the additional minimization/gaslighting we face in healthcare/society due to poor quality research and a serious lack of understanding of CP.
So what do we do about it?
First, HOW we talk about these issues matter.
We need to stop referring to “lifestyle choices” (places fault with patient) and start recognizing and addressing the real systemic barriers to healthy living that exist (where the faults actually are).
Misogyny, ableism, racism, financial insecurity, food insecurity, housing insecurity, lack of disability supports, and more are very prevalent barriers to healthy living.
The people creating this language in healthcare and research are some of the MOST privileged among us.
#Inclusion of our patient community means choosing a variety of backgrounds and experiences, and creating safer spaces for real discussions to happen about the realities and needs of those living with #ChronicPain.
But also the opportunities. And there are so many.
We could start respectfully tracking #ChronicPain in healthcare.
Acknowledging and believing it, counting it correctly, creating new tools to measure it…all respectful, inclusive and co-designed with patients.
No more shame, blame, neglect. Compassion and respect.
#Doctors could display #humility and #curiosity when they don’t understand the chronic illness-fuelled chronic pain they see.
They could read up on things like #hypermobility, #mastcells, #glial cells, neuro #inflammation research, etc.
They could believe us when we say it’s a 9-10 today.
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Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignificant when contrasted with other real and potential uses of the UK’s extensive uplands.
Please consider donating to the Open Medicine Foundation to help people suffering from extremely disabling and underfunded lifelong illnesses with no know treatment.
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