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2025-01-06
of care and affordability

apartment wall motif, Helsinki, Finland

2019-11-27 – Google Pixel 3a
apartment wall motif, Helsinki, Finland

🎵 (youtube) Gunship «When You Grow Up, Your Heart Dies»

Europeans pay for health care,
Americans pay for health insurance.

I’m of the age that my health care “provider” has been sending out colon cancer screening kits – and when I get one, I pause and give serious consideration to not returning it – knowledge is important, but sitting in the back of my mind is the thought «if it’s positive, can I afford to do anything about it?» – and I’m moderately well off (the last vestiges of the dying US middle class) – with 60% of the US living paycheck-to-paycheck, that same thought is enough to induce panic attacks

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⬅️ the month before
⬅️ the season before

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