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It wasn’t so bad when we had Liberals and less neo-Liberals. We’ve also had Liberal governments that don’t fix as many of the Con failures of the past as they used to.

Also our medical is mostly provincial so as they flip Con we are losing more and more Universal healthcare. If you can believe it, we’re actually going towards more of the American model each election.

I hope your progressives turn it around a little, because it looks like young males all around the world are leaning fascist.

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oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Any reliable source/study on the global male fascist thing? I see it repeated a lot and would love details on how true it might be and why

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fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah, the medical industry in Australia is probably similar, sliding away from universal health care.

I mean it’s nothing like the US but I do feel that we’re headed in the wrong direction.

10 years ago it wasn’t hard to find a GP that wouldn’t charge you anything on top of the government rebate. Now the rebate is usually about half what the GP is charging.

That said, myself and those in my care have spent a lot of time in hospital over the last few years and we haven’t paid a cent for any of that. My partner gave birth to Twins, it was a “complex pregnancy”, all fit and well in the end but we spent 3 months in another city to be near a specialist hospital. Govt paid for a nice apartment for us for the whole time, absolutely gold standard care from the miracle workers at that hospital, just amazing honestly.

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- gift_of_gab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  That said, myself and those in my care have spent a lot of time in hospital over the last few years and we haven’t paid a cent for any of that. My partner gave birth to Twins, it was a “complex pregnancy”, all fit and well in the end but we spent 3 months in another city to be near a specialist hospital. Govt paid for a nice apartment for us for the whole time, absolutely gold standard care from the miracle workers at that hospital, just amazing honestly.
  
  That sounds absolutely incredible, absolutely fight with every breath you have to keep that. The right-wing is coming for it, and I’m worried too many of us are complacent and refuse to stand up to it. Good luck, and Love from Canada.
  
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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

our medical is mostly provincial

That’s intentional. And it’s precisely so Harper couldn’t fuck it up when he wasn’t signing away our rights to our own land. His people can only fuck over a province at a time while we can potentially show off better outcomes from places he hasn’t wrecked yet.

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- gift_of_gab@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  That’s intentional. And it’s precisely so Harper couldn’t fuck it up when he wasn’t signing away our rights to our own land. His people can only fuck over a province at a time while we can potentially show off better outcomes from places he hasn’t wrecked yet.
  
  The issue is people (particularly men) are falling for it, and once PP is our PM you can bet we’re going to get more of it. People aren’t seeing the worsening of it and changing their minds – Alberta voted the UCP in again after Smith had already been in charge. The BC NDP nearly lost to John Rustad. I’d love it if these bad examples worked, but they don’t seem to be.
  
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