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even in canada, we are the 99 %
Um, this rather muddles the message. I’m pretty certain that the reason she can’t get a “decent doctor” or “affordable coverage” is because, as a civilized country with a national health system [they even call it “Medicare” (for all)], Canadian medicine is healthily skeptical about the existence of fibromyalgia as a discrete disease, or at least it’s treatability as one.
Actually, among the more grotesque innovations and exports of 1% everything-for-sale America is all the paradiseases and other medical quackery that people convince themselves they have the right to have taken seriously: see vaccines-cause-autism, or colon cleansing, or, my favorite, Morgellon’s disease. In a single-payer, truly universal health insurance scheme—which I’m pretty sure everyone can agree is the only rational thing to have, if you were starting from scratch—fibromyalgia would rightly be taken less seriously than cancer, or diabetes, or the common cold. Indeed, coverage for fibromyalgia might be “rationed,” or even denied entirely, if it happens to be a bad year for colds. In medicine and otherwise, some form of triage is the only way to fairly meet the needs of the 99%.
Do little personal stories (claims, if you will) like these actually undermine the solidarity of the 99%? It’s perhaps easier to believe in a society where if I had more money, people would have to fix my problem even if it has no obvious etiology, diagnostic criteria, or physical manifestation.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lswwvhiFND1r25y9yo1_400.jpg)
even in canada, we are the 99 %
Um, this rather muddles the message. I’m pretty certain that the reason she can’t get a “decent doctor” or “affordable coverage” is because, as a civilized country with a national health system [they even call it “Medicare” (for all)], Canadian medicine is healthily skeptical about the existence of fibromyalgia as a discrete disease, or at least it’s treatability as one.
Actually, among the more grotesque innovations and exports of 1% everything-for-sale America is all the paradiseases and other medical quackery that people convince themselves they have the right to have taken seriously: see vaccines-cause-autism, or colon cleansing, or, my favorite, Morgellon’s disease. In a single-payer, truly universal health insurance scheme—which I’m pretty sure everyone can agree is the only rational thing to have, if you were starting from scratch—fibromyalgia would rightly be taken less seriously than cancer, or diabetes, or the common cold. Indeed, coverage for fibromyalgia might be “rationed,” or even denied entirely, if it happens to be a bad year for colds. In medicine and otherwise, some form of triage is the only way to fairly meet the needs of the 99%.
Do little personal stories (claims, if you will) like these actually undermine the solidarity of the 99%? It’s perhaps easier to believe in a society where if I had more money, people would have to fix my problem even if it has no obvious etiology, diagnostic criteria, or physical manifestation.
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