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[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

My doctor started handing off the fees to his patients. You want a skin tag removed? 50 bucks. You want a sick note? 50 bucks. Alternatively, you can pay for a subscription of like 200 dollars a year or something to cover all of those electives.

It's stupid. What happened to "do no harm"? I guess it doesn't count when it's financial harm.

I pay my fucking taxes. Allot them correctly so I don't have to double pay my physicians because you've decided to allocate taxes to nonsense bullshit instead of core social welfare programs.

Fuck ~~Rob~~ Doug Ford and the Cons. They're bleeding the healthcare system dry so they can claim it's a failure and privatize it. They spend more money subsidizing private clinics and hospitals than actually funding the regular ones.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Rob Ford

Do you mean Doug, or are we speaking ill of the dead?

[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

Yeah I do mean Doug.

Thanks lol.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I just want to point out that "speak no ill of the dead" is a fucking stupid idea, and nobody should ever say that phrase.

People should be remembered for what they did and who they were, even if (or maybe especially) they were bad.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I completely agree. Just last week I was saying to a friend how if we say the deceased, "were just the best/nicest/friendliest, etc." it minimizes the truly great people.

I was trying to make a joke and couldn't come up with anything better. Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―