What can we do about healthcare?

Protest, riot, strike, etc. The government is owned by the robber barons. Aligning healthcare with a profit motive is violence of the highest order and we should respond in kind.

Assuming you're a US citzen:

0. Identiy that the fault is how we fund healthcare, not "government meddling" or "bad researchers".
1. Pick a major political party.
2. Register as a member and find out where your local meetings are.
3. Make clear that the ONLY issue you care about is fixing healthcare.
4. Volunteer, donate, or run if you can.
5. Vote in every general, primary, or special election for whomever makes fixing healthcare a priority. Spoil if you must, but VOTE.
6. Dont fall for lies.

Fixing healthcare funding is itself broadly popular, but since its inherently unprofitable to care for sick, disabled, or elderly people all possible fixes are either "socialism" or "die quickly"

Healthcare should be like roads or schools or calling the police, not like cars or contractors or hiring a lawyer.

People seem to want to kill insurance company CEOs.

Collectivize it, Cuba has a much better system at much lower costs.

Vote better.

The current parties will do nothing. We would need to replace over half of both legislative houses with people who support single payer Healthcare (right now there's like less than 5 iirc) to make substantial change.

I don't know. But on November 19th I had a stroke, treatment and ICU stay of 3 days was over $200,000. Honestly wish I didn't survive it, would have been much cheaper.

Right now the US is basically a two-party system with both parties bribbed by the same health insurance companies. The will of the people demands change, yet both parties refuse to implement change.

Withholding your vote does nothing as it's essentially a two-party system. Voting for one party or the other does nothing as they're both paid off by the same health insurance companies.

In desperate times when the government no longer represents the people, people turn to vigilantism to solve ongoing problems, as we saw with the killing of the CEO.

It's going to get a lot worse, there WILL be more killings.

elect different lawmakers

Elect lawmakers that would pass single payer, like they have in europe. However, this is an unrealistic expectation in our modern political landscape. So we need to change the political landscape to make that possible.

• find a way to dismantle the right wing propaganda machine, or make one as powerful but not a fountain of lies. Difficult since the right wing has the full support of the billionaire owned news media. They are pros who have studied pyops inside and out and excel at it.
• join the democratic party and attempt to overthrow its pro-rich leadership. difficult. Is it really a democratically run institution?

create alternative orgs

create coops and/or nonprofits to provide better options than predatory insurance companies. maybe easier because its grassroots and small compared to changing our national leadership. There's a danger of genuinely helpful institutions being outlawed due to mainstream medical lobbying.

direct action

we've already seen how successful propaganda of the deed can be. but will it actually produce change, or just lead to repression? it has at least communicated the extent to which Americans are disgruntled - not just the deed itself, but the overwhelmingly positive reaction to it.

general strikes, boycotts, other demonstrations might be a possibility. you need an effective campaign to get people on the same page.

Two ways forward.

1: Universal healthcare as seen in Canada.
2: Private heath coverage with strict price controls set by the government as seen in Japan.

Get involved with Mutual Aid groups.

Learn some basic First Aid.

Make connections with doctors and nurses who want to escape this broken system and get them involved with Mutual Aid groups.

This last part shouldn't be too hard, depending on where you live. I live in a progressive city with lots of doctors with good values who already do tons of charity work as it is. Getting them involved wouldn't be too difficult because they're likely already involved at some level. I've had doctors and dentists who volunteer at our free clinics for those without medical coverage, so it seems like taking the next step into Mutual Aid is probably something they're game for.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Ummmmm, we have a perfect example in the news right now

As a Canadian... try and snag us some good doctors as the American healthcare system collapses.

1. Saying "American Healthcare System" there's no such thing.

There are many, many disparate elements to medicine in the US. Understanding all those elements and how they relate is primary.

I think you're worried about the deck chairs on a sinking ship, at this point.

The healthcare costs in America will ensure there's no transfer of wealth between generations.

I know it may sound callous, but if you have skills. A lot of countries are looking to fill skill shortages, you could emigrate to somewhere with a sensible health system.

Failing that, as someone else pointed out. Grassroots action!
Get involved, change the narrative build up from local level. Shooting CEO's is not a long term solution, yes it grabbed attention, yes it showed how fucked off the population really is.... build on that momentum.

In the USA, single payer. But that will never happen under fucking Trump

Paul Cockshott - Obstacles to the China path in Latin America.

M4A

It's not complicated. When it becomes more profitable for politicians to help the oligarchs than it does for them to help the working class, things will improve. So pick a politician helping the oligarchs and make it very "unprofitable" for them.

1. Civil War
2. Revolution
3. Societal Collapse
4. Tribal, post-apocalypse
5. Misinterpreted Bible leads to a few genocides
6. Someone rediscovers the light bulb Pick back up around Edison on our timeline...

You're looking at around 2350 or so, so... good healthcare sweet spot is likely to be around 2420, supposing you ended up somewhere in the future that isn't irradiated, or is irradiated in such a way that it regrows limbs, which could be good and bad.

If you're talking about working with what we've got, well... save some .PDFs in the war truck just in case you have to play field medic.

What have you tried?

Deregulation