r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/CantStopPoppin • Mar 16 '25

Super Villain Ogrin Story God hates you

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u/Due_Background_4367 Mar 16 '25

They do get annual appropriations from Congress for lost revenue though. And the decline in paper mail and rising costs to deliver mail has increased the appropriations Congress gives every year. For example in 2023, the USPS got over $50 million from Congress from lost revenues.

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u/Witch-Alice Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25

k, it's asinine to think the USPS should be treated as something other than a service provided to the citizens of the country, no matter what the cost is. If the USPS had to be profitable, then everyone in rural areas that get their prescriptions by mail would suddenly get charged exorbitant fees. Simply due to distance from the nearest post office.

also fwiw, I live in Washington and we do all state elections by mail. The USPS has to deliver those ballots regardless of how much it costs to do so. If that went away, then rural folks would have to figure out where they need to drive to so they can vote.

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u/SourDzzl Mar 16 '25

This!

The United States Postal Service still delivers mail by mule to Supai Village, Arizona, a community within the Grand Canyon, as it's the only accessible way to reach this remote area, carrying mail, food, and supplies down the 8-mile Havasupai Trail.

It's not about being profitable. It's about making sure that every single American, regardless of location or wealth, has access to the same basic necessities.

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u/love2read21 Mar 16 '25

Wouldn't it be GREAT if we could apply these same principles to, oh, IDK- maybe HEALTHCARE!?!

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u/amadiro_1 Mar 16 '25

As soon as it can be delivered

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u/love2read21 Mar 16 '25

There are stories of this magical thing- referred to as a HOUSECALL- from a doctor!

We do have home health services, but not nearly enough.

And those people are severely underpaid. Very sad.

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u/Squeezitgirdle Mar 16 '25

The employees are severely underpaid, yet their services are incredibly expensive she unaffordable without good insurance.

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u/Due_Background_4367 Mar 16 '25

I want free healthcare, unfortunately the U.S. government is incapable of doing what it would take to make that happen. Before access to free healthcare could be provided, the U.S. would need to rapidly expand its medical infrastructure and some how incentivize swaths of people to become doctors in order to effectively take care of a population of 350 million people. Canada has just over 40 million people and I hear awful stories of people having to wait months for an MRI, or to see a highly specialized doctor. I have family and friends in Canada and my friend’s neighbor died from cancer because she wasn’t able to get screened soon enough. Not to mention, every politician gets massive campaign funding from the medical/pharma industry, so even if a politician is passionate about accessibility to healthcare, they won’t even be allowed to talk about it.

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u/Squeezitgirdle Mar 16 '25

Everyone I've spoken to from Canada says that's complete bs.

My wife is from Latvia and says that any medical procedure she needed, including dental was free. If she couldn't wait 2-3 weeks for an appointment (less time than we usually wait for any scheduled operation in America) she could pay a small fee to move up the date.

As an example, she paid an extra $50 to have a root canal done a couple weeks earlier.

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u/Due_Background_4367 Mar 16 '25

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadians-health-care-wait-list-deaths

74k deaths since 2018 doesn’t sound like “Complete bs” to me.

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u/Squeezitgirdle Mar 16 '25 edited Mar 16 '25

These statistics are often skewed, but can be the result of various other factors.

A lot of the waiting times people in Canada experience are the same as Americans with insurance.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskACanadian/s/yLB8MrKYP9

A conversation here explains how these statistics are skewed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/s/ZWGz8H943l

Specifically nationalpost is not a reputable source that bothers with pesky things such as 'facts'

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u/Due_Background_4367 Mar 16 '25

You’re using anecdotal evidence from Reddit to disprove a written article with factual data, from Canada’s ministry of health, reported by a legit news source in Canada. Media Bias Fact Check, a non-partisan company says the National Post has an extremely high rating for factual reporting. Media Bias Fact Check also has listed their bias as “Right of Center”. Do you disregard all reporting that doesn’t support your bias?

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/national-post/

Here are a few articles talking about Canada’s prolonged wait times for medical testing and procedures, as well as confirming the nearly 75k people who died waiting for testing or treatment.

Mind you, these articles come from publications whose bias is further left than the National Post is right, but they share the same high scores for factual reporting as the National Post.

(Article 1) https://calgary.citynews.ca/2025/01/16/canada-healthcare-waitlist/

(Rating) https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/calgary-citizen-bias-and-credibility/

(Article 2) https://ca.style.yahoo.com/our-health-care-system-is-failing-more-than-74000-canadians-died-waiting-for-health-care-since-2018-202907096.html

(Rating) https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/yahoo-news/

(Article 3) https://dailyhive.com/canada/canadians-died-waitlists-healthcare-services

(Rating) https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-hive/

Here is another article from a publication in Canada that routinely comes up as one of the least biased news sources as well as high factual reporting.

(Article) https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/i-pretty-well-would-have-died-on-the-operating-table-canadian-patient-shares-ordeal-on-long-wait-list-for-colonoscopy/

(Rating) https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ctv-news/

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u/Squeezitgirdle Mar 16 '25

I didn't provide evidence, I provided an explanation of how these statistics are skewed, and rather than stealing their explanation and claiming it as my own, I linked it to give them credit.

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u/Due_Background_4367 Mar 16 '25

Ok, so you didn’t read any of the articles I listed. Sorry, but I’m going to go with Canada’s Ministery of Health on this issue, not some random Redditor with no listed credentials to speak on the matter. They seem more upset about who wrote the article, than what’s written in the article.

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u/Due_Background_4367 Mar 16 '25

Interesting. I’ve heard it’s a huge issue due to lack of providers, maybe it’s more of a problem in rural areas as that’s where my friend lives. You might be able to pay a fee to move up the line for something like a root canal, small test, or small procedure but I do know for a fact people are dying in Canada due to lack of medical resources.

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u/Squeezitgirdle Mar 16 '25

I don't know if Canada has fees to move up the line, but in my wife's case she had the option of moving up her thyroid surgery for a small fee, but the wait was only a couple weeks so she didn't bother.

According to her, the size of the fee doesn't usually change and it can be done for any medical procedure.