Mastodawn

Bypass Blues 🌻 🇪🇺 🇺🇦16h ago

@EUCommission
#HealthcareIsABasicRight ✊

Markus Sugarhill

@EUCommission so, don't talk, but work against the decline.

KuboF Hromoslav bio/acc 🧬12h ago

@MSugarhill @EUCommission, let's do both!

Reiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺16h ago

@EUCommission Please share this info with the German government.

☑️ Cath 16h ago

@prefec2 Please inform the Dutch too! Thank you @EUCommission

#healthcare

Gina 16h ago

@Kletskous @prefec2 @EUCommission I was just about to say, please inform the Dutch government that paracetamol ≠ healthcare.

Angela Scholder 14h ago

@Gina @Kletskous @prefec2 @EUCommission Same here.

Neo Ehproque 15h ago

@Kletskous @prefec2 @EUCommission this may be news for the Spanish regional governments

gerry 14h ago

@prefec2
LOL yes! And plz share it with the #Belgian gov as well.

In #Belgium, only banked ppl can pay the public administrative fees for public healthcare because cash is refused.

@EUCommission

#warOnCash

The_Universality 16h ago

@EUCommission Privacy is basic right as well.

@EUCommission hey @poni eu commission says that quality healthcare is a human right even in czechia is this true

@ww @EUCommission lot of things are human rights and then turn into kinda shit

@poni @EUCommission damn this is like. an indictment of the human civilization.

@ww @EUCommission there is a lot of fun rights, i mean, you have a right to have a name and then you have czechia which won't really let you because they may not like that name unless it's like Karel

@poni @EUCommission is it like denmark with a whitelist of acceptable names?

@ww @EUCommission no it's more arbitrary and humiliating than that really

@poni @ww @EUCommission there is a whitelist actually

@poni @EUCommission @ww i'd know i contributed to it

@katka @poni @EUCommission what was that experience like?

@ww @poni @EUCommission just gave someone money to issue a fancy paper, took it to the registry, and later on it ended on a list

@katka @poni @EUCommission icann-ass country

@ww @katka @EUCommission we could probably have cz nic run this

@poni @ww @EUCommission we sure do have a lot of nic in cz

@katka @EUCommission @ww happy to meet a fellow czechizen in her proper czcech mood today

@poni @EUCommission @ww me trying to find a flag air carrier
me trying to find a train to the airport
me trying to find a train that goes at least 230km/h between the two biggest cities

nic

@katka @EUCommission @ww > the airport

laughed a bit

@poni @EUCommission @ww i suppose the best cz airport is vienna schwechat

@katka @EUCommission @ww i always kind of think it's an irc client for some reason

@poni @katka @EUCommission schilling wechat

Lili (T'lapka?)16h ago

@katka @poni @EUCommission @ww I half-expect they canonized the whitelist recently purely because people found ways to work around the old rules and have cooler names than the state thought appropriate

FrankieBeast 16h ago

@EUCommission Please remember this to the Italian government, thanks.

Reid

@EUCommission good that we're on the same page. Now do something about the Romanian Government doing their damned hardest to ruin and fully privatise our public healthcare system

Softspeak 16h ago

@EUCommission
While we address the US Government, let's throw in more they do not understand:
white phosphorus is a chemical weapon and shouldn't be used in war
white phosphorus is a chemical weapon and shouldn't be used in war
white phosphorus is a chemical weapon and shouldn't be used in war
Depleted Uranium shouldn't go in weapons, that's evil
Depleted Uranium shouldn't go in weapons, that's evil
Depleted Uranium shouldn't go in weapons, that's evil
Don't use AI for warfare, war is already inhuman
Don't use AI for warfare, war is already inhuman
Don't use AI for warfare, war is already inhuman
Torture rarely gives you proper intel, don't do torture
Torture rarely gives you proper intel, don't do torture
Torture rarely gives you proper intel, don't do torture
If this war is about Uranium, then why are we attacking an island with oil?
If this war is about Uranium, then why are we attacking an island with oil?
If this war is about Uranium, then why are we attacking an island with oil?

Peet Tetteroo 16h ago

@EUCommission

Not in USA at the level of the republicans - they only want to make money from others suffering - sociopaths ..

Ulmo 15h ago

@EUCommission Could you perhaps remind yourselves (through the policies you promote in the Member States) that privatising public healthcare turns the right to healthcare into a perverse by-product designed to enrich a select few, which has nothing to do with the ‘free market’ and even less to do with health?

Thank you!!!

Veza85UE 13h ago

@Ulmo @EUCommission How does the Commission "promote" health policy in the member statelets?

Ulmo 13h ago

@Veza85UE @EUCommission Not health policies. But how resources for those policies are managed. It’s different, but it has a huge impact.

Veza85UE 13h ago

@Ulmo @EUCommission What resources do you think Ayuso would use for healthcare if only the impact of the European Commission's... guidelines (¿?) would let her?

Ulmo 12h ago

@Veza85UE @EUCommission Put simply, you can either invest tax revenue in public spending or divert those funds to pay private companies to run both private and public hospitals, thereby reducing resources for the public health service (fewer staff, fewer beds). It comes down to political will and decision-making. And it is a matter of legislation and economic policy.

The decline in public services in general, and in healthcare in particular, has been exacerbated by such diversions of funds across Europe since the pandemic. And this is driven by EU-backed policies.

As for how these publicly funded companies operate through care ratios or the reuse of medical equipment, it’s best not to even mention it. Their aim is profit and the highest possible profit margin. Let us remember that a public service seeks to meet a community need or to ensure a right is upheld. Not to make a profit.

When you break your arm or have an accident and lose consciousness, you’re not thinking about who will provide you with the best service on the market. You want to be treated. Healthcare is the very opposite of what market competition is supposed to improve.

So the intention is not to improve the service, but to siphon off public resources to enrich certain players. It is a political and ideological decision driven by Brussels. This isn’t a recent development; it has been going on since 2008. The pandemic has exacerbated the situation in the area of public health.

Veza85UE 12h ago

@Ulmo @EUCommission I think we're in agreement on a lot here, probably north of 90% (there's emergency healthcare and there's health-nice-to-haves where market competition can and probably has improved outcomes, but I genuinely defer to your expertise). I mentioned Ayuso because at the core of my disagreement is this: "driven by Brussels". Who is "Brussels", particularly for health, foreign policy, taxation, defence, etc.?

Ulmo 12h ago

@Veza85UE @EUCommission Brussels is in charge of the EU’s economic and monetary policy. And that is HUGE.

I can see you’re focusing on the wrong policies. You don’t need to suggest, or even ‘hint’, at what defence or health policies (over which it has no jurisdiction) should be pursued when you’re setting the guidelines on how resources should be used, or the economic and budgetary guidelines, or how those policies should be managed within a general framework and how they are funded.

Veza85UE 12h ago

@Ulmo @EUCommission Monetary (and there are caveats there too, on top of PL et al being out) is Frankfurt. On everything else, the guidelines on how resources should be used are written by lower level experts and advisors as they are in every administration anywhere, but the guidelines are decided by the member states governments without whom NOTHING moves in the EU. The ultimate decision maker is in the hummus room of the European Council. "Brussels"=member states, so... a disfrutar lo votado.

Ulmo 12h ago

@Veza85UE @EUCommission Are you joking? Just because the European Central Bank is based in Frankfurt doesn’t make it a separate, alien entity. Are you telling me that the division of powers between the various European institutions is completely compartmentalised?

That the decisions taken in Brussels, Strasbourg or wherever the Council of Europe meets are made without any connection or planning whatsoever?

You must be joking. Right?

Veza85UE 12h ago

@Ulmo @EUCommission The Council of Europe is not an EU institution. The European Council = our heads of state and government, the executive decider of EVERYTHING in the European Union. They are "Brussels", no joke. That's the point, not that the decisions of our national governments are not planned. Read again: our governments are the EU, they are "Brussels", they make these guidelines, they make these decisions, there is no EU or Brussels as an external force alien to them.

Ulmo 11h ago

@Veza85UE @EUCommission Of course. The EU is an amorphous entity that hovers over Europe without having the slightest influence on the policies of its member states.

Much less on monetary policy (over which member states have no say whatsoever) or, of course, in any way on economic policy.

Sure, of course. Save that story for someone else. You’ll excuse me for withdrawing from this nonsense. Read Article 13 of the TEU and perhaps I might deign to continue.

Veza85UE 11h ago

@Ulmo @EUCommission The member states MAKE that policy. The economic policy is dictated by member states in the European Council (executive) and the Council of the EU (legislative). #WTFistheCouncil

A disfrutar lo votado.

Mastodon's Billionaire Owner 15h ago

@EUCommission

Importantly - BAN private healthcare, so that rich people also have an interest in maintaining an excellent public system!

Coq 4h ago

@bluewave_kiwi
Solving through banning? You'll be tagged as extremist!
That sounds great, but only with true democracy. Otherwise we'll face cominism as it was in USSR.
@EUCommission

Mastodon's Billionaire Owner 27m ago

@coq @EUCommission

Yes, I know what you mean. I am not suggesting everything be nationalized, just certain key things where private ownership doesn't work in the interests of society. Goal with education and healthcare is to encourage a "we're all in this together" approach.