Mastodawn

Bypass Blues 🌻 🇪🇺 🇺🇦1d ago

@EUCommission
#HealthcareIsABasicRight ✊

Markus Sugarhill

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

KuboF Hromoslav bio/acc 🧬1d ago

@MSugarhill @EUCommission, let's do both!

European Commission 9h ago

Hi @MSugarhill! We are taking action. We support EU countries in protecting and improving the health of their citizens. You can find more information on how we are doing this here: https://link.europa.eu/NCCdqT

Overview

EU countries hold primary responsibility for organising and delivering health services and medical care. EU health policy therefore serves to…

Public Health

Reiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺1d ago

@EUCommission Please share this info with the German government.

☑️ Cath 1d ago

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

#healthcare

Gina 1d ago

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

Angela Scholder 1d ago

@Gina @Kletskous @prefec2 @EUCommission Same here.

Neo Ehproque 1d ago

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

gerry 1d 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 1d 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?)1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

@EUCommission

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

@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!!!

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

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

@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?

@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.

@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.?

@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.

@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.

@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?

@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.

@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.

@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.

Rien 4h ago

@Veza85UE @Ulmo @EUCommission we will have to repeat this message over and over again: our own national governments are the executive power of the EU. Do not let them hide behind a fake story about 'what the EU is doing to them'.. they are cowardly stepping away from their own decisions (especially when there is some not so popular element in it, otherwise of course everything is their accomplishment).

Thanks @Veza85UE for your patience in calling them out!!

Veza85UE 3h ago

@rien @Ulmo @EUCommission 🫡

Ulmo 3h ago

@Veza85UE @rien @EUCommission Save the memes for X please. If you are not going to contribute anything, have the decency to behave like an adult.

@Ulmo @Veza85UE @EUCommission I like your passionate contribution, but would it hurt to keep it friendly and refrain from judgements about contributing anything when someone posts one meme you do not appreciate?

@rien @Veza85UE @EUCommission For God's sake, I'm telling you the same thing I told the person in the meme. If you're not going to contribute to the debate, step aside with dignity. As for those kinds of debates where people attack the speaker to divert attention from the topic (because they have no arguments), I already have the TV talk show hosts for that.

@Ulmo @Veza85UE @EUCommission see my other reply - I try to reason with you about the topic. AND I ask you to maintain a friendly tone. Not too much to ask for right?

@rien @Veza85UE @EUCommission I’m still really curious about how ALL the member states are privatizing healthcare (I just hope they don’t want an American-style healthcare system—God forbid such utter stupidity)—driven by the European Commission.

Considering how difficult it is to reach an agreement, as we’ve seen with our wonderful “ally” Trump, I’m fascinated by how this has been achieved at the European level.

@Ulmo @Veza85UE @EUCommission from my perspective we all make the same mistakes (austerity, privatizing healthcare etc) because at the time governments belief they have something to gain. And then the pendule goes further than intended.

(And it is my big frustration that we as voters chose political parties that advocate privatizing healthcare, budget cuts on public services and blame everything on migrants. And when these parties do as they said we are angry at the EU? Beats me..)

@rien @Veza85UE @EUCommission I completely agree. But that’s at the national level. Not to mention that the major parties (regardless of whether they market themselves as conservative or left-wing) ultimately act the same way on this issue.

But I still wonder what the Commission’s goal is in pressuring member states to privatize their healthcare systems. I suspect it’s an ideological and economic issue.

@Ulmo @Veza85UE @EUCommission agreed, a broad coalition of parties has embraced privatizing health care. (Not that the NHS is a big hit in the UK, but still I firmly believe privatizing has gone wat too far.)

Maybe member states ask the EU to put more pressure on this topic to enable the scrambling of additional budget for patching up our neglected armies and collective defense?

@rien @Veza85UE @EUCommission Of course, I’ll ignore that unfriendly comment in which you tell the other party how they should behave in a debate when faced with behavior that strays from the topic at hand.