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Re:Telehealth will be free, no copays, they said. But patien... by ab_testing on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @12:39AM (#23003427)
The most interesting thing is that most of this healthcare is tied to employment. So now in the past few weeks when 25 million people have been laid off, they have also effectively lost their health insurance. Now they cannot afford to go to the doctor and cannot afford their prescriptions.

As of December 2019, 26 million people in the US were inunsured. Since then, around 26 million more have lost their jobs - effectively losing their healthcare. So now as of today, around 52 million people in a country of 320 million have no access to primary healthcare.

https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/key-facts-about-th...

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Re:Telehealth will be free, no copays, they said. But patien... by blackrock on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:16AM (#23005477)
The more I think of it, the more it seems like..

COVID-19 is the symptom.

Capitalism is the disease.

This comment will of course, get heavily downvoted, and likely flagged.

But, it appears we are reaching a reckoning. This virus does not give a damn if you’re rich or poor. Insured or not. It’s going to take out anyone that it can. And the poor, and those on the fringe, are going to get hit the hardest.

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