Imagine if every state had a different cell phone carrier or go back even further to when it was long distance even just blocks or cities over. Now imagine a technology comes in that doesn’t care what carrier you are on, or if it’s long distance.
That is kind of what happened to countries. Especially if you have people who work in one and live in another or have clients in another.
So even though now maybe it isn’t long distance, or carriers talk to each other, everyone is used to the way they have been doing it for free.
turdburglar@piefed.social 5 days ago
sure but first, as an american, you have to make sure the doctor in question is ‘in network’
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 days ago
None of our doctors, in network or otherwise force us to Zuck’s apps lol.
turdburglar@piefed.social 5 days ago
sorry, the joke was about your ‘weird’ whatsapp communications vs our totally fuken stupid healthcare middlemen only exist to extract money from the doctor/patient relationship.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I wouldn’t call being forced to use a privacy invading, personal data harvesting, foreign-owned company by ever facet of your society “weird”. I’d call it “deeply troubling”.