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Cool, now do eyecare. And while you’re at it, federally protect our healthcare from being privatized.
It's easier to fight for what we have than it is to get it back once it's gone.
and ban loblaws from being Around healthcare.
ban loblaws from being Around healthcare.
Anyone providing commercial healthcare solutions needs to run open books, zero profit, cap on admin wages.
My optometry was covered for up to $400/2 yrs through my job which is pretty standard (also garbage). I got lasik for $4k and my healthcare covered $25. How is that cheaper for them than $400 every 2 years for the rest of my life?
Also, fuck privatized healthcare and all the provincial governments that are making it harder for public healthcare.
My optometry was covered for up to $400/2 yrs through my job
You do understand how your job contracting with a mercenary healthcare organization like Great Northern or PBC to fund eyeglasses, and take that money away from you and the country, is wrong-headed in the way it's funded and administered, right? Since orgs can set whatever price to your job they want, and your job's only options are how badly they wanna be screwed and by whom, that it's very American in its setup.
A single-payer system that also doesn't pay for useless c-suite bonuses (and wages) and can dictate rates for the baseline lenses and UV coating needs only handle regulatory inspection and the rest of the savings is passed onto our tax proceeds.
in short: you paid $400 now, but it should be .025% tax on your gross instead, ensuring people below the poverty line pay $0.
Why is it only for some people and not universal?
It's not bad, actually. It applies to:
- People who don't already have existing dental insurance
- Families that make less than $90k/yr (which I think is higher than the median household income across the country)
This is probably (hopefully) a stopgap to prevent backlash from shortsighted (imo) employers and employees who had Dental and considered it a job perk.
only for some people and not universal?
- they're the most impacted
- the gov providing for them robs no mercenary-care provider lobbyists
- with proper voting our gov will soon expand it to support the lowest unsupported income tier and again and again.
If we vote for polyestre and his crew, though, it's gone.
Agree with other person that replied. Most people with healthcare through their job were already covered by basic plans ("job perk"). It's fine I guess as long as our teeth are getting dealt with!
Would love to see optometry up here next.
Great, now to just cover everything else, so non-terminal people aren't euthanized for nothing.
I'm not sure how this doesnt end in future austerity with interest, given it was not funded via taxes.
Its different in that way compared our universal healthcare, the NDP at that time made sure it was actually sustainable.
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