Let the man cook God damnit

Yeah, I like the cut of his jib.

​@@garthenarI like the jib of his cut. And the potential for fire

Yes! Jimothy DOES have a point! A nice sharp point! 😅

Indeed, he seems to be onto something And honestly? The shit he deals with? I thunk he can have a little violence, as a liddle treat

You can really tell what the real message he tried to give with this vid: "We're all screwed, and our only functional option is illegal to incite ppl to do... but I'm just saying... But without saying, of course, clearly saying the 'opposite' here!"

Intellectually, I know that the system perpetuates itself, and knifing an individual is little impediment to that, but I'm sure there's someone at UHC / Optima that *deserves* a knifing. I say we let Jimothy find them. (j/k)

The problem with encouraging providers with actual patient care experience to become legislators is that we lose more doctors. Then we, as patients, get newly minted residents, or N.P.s and P.A.s who have all the arrogance of tired old M.D.s but no real experience. That's not a "solution". I think the gas can is a good solution. Thank you for this series - I'll be bingeing on reruns for some time!

Yeah, I think Jimothy is the only one who actually has a realistic approach to what needs to be done to deal with those people. Everything else is just a pipe dream.

The political power that these companies use against us and our personal finances is protected by the legal lethal authority of the state, ultimately. We're all just fighting over knives. However. It is better to fight over knives than with them. Dr. G doesn't seem like a political theorist but reminding these companies that they're playing with fire is always important.

I bet there's a sizable overlap around here with nerdfighteria (hellooooo!). we could absolutely do it.

They would conjure up a left-/right-wing conspiracy and scare people into inaction? Lying is just way easier than telling the truth.

We absolutely should. Tackle it one issue at a time as a large body of positive, peer-pressuring-companies-happy people.

I agree that focus is how one wins at Whack-A-Mole... but do we have time to play Whack-A-Mole?

Imagine what would happen if people actually cared about healthcare legislation more than they care about transgender teenagers in sports.

That Jimothy fellow had some good ideas!

How to have focused goals when fighting against corporations means organising. What is the best way for US citizens to run campaigns to change things Dr Glauc? John Green just had success leveraging the needfighteria community (along with international organisation's and affected governments to lower cost of Tuberculosis drugs and testing. By focusing public opinion on specific acts of greed they got big corporations to change specific policies.

He missed one, VOTE! Only 17% of eligible ppl vote and less vote in the primary! The bad guys only win if the rest of us stay home, and they are VERY close to winning! We MUST stand up and fight back! Vote with your ballot, your wallet, and your feet. You can vote every day, and it does matter! We have to get the word out! I won't bore you, but if America knew how close we are to losing absolutely everything, worldwide, forever? Their hair would be on fire (just like mine is every day 😱) Under current trends, we are *expected* to *lose* stuff like: Personal Liberty, human rights, economic mobility, body autonomy, free trade, the entire social safety net, the government's ability to pass regulation, the idea of Constitutional rule of law, democracy: the concept, not dying en mass to climate disasters, and a bunch of other stuff most people take for granted. It can all disappear, and it will if we don't show up to stop it on Nov 5th 2024. It's time to choose: What do you want the future to be? And a LOT of people are gonna show up and vote for a radical religious patriarchy and the end of legal accountability just because they're mad about trans kids, not realizing they've been fed a total lie. We must outnumber them!

I support this.

Ok, sure, but it also needs the light of day in the House and Senate, not just buried in a dark basement.

And the Smithsonian.

Thank you for your s work so far and for the difference you can make in the future. Could john Green's targetted social media spotlight on bedaquiline and TB tests that have been part of J & J and other companies finally dropping their prices and patent extensions a good model to follow? John is very focused on a particular change a particular company can make.

It won't make a difference if the elections in 2024 go the wrong way worldwide. UK, India, and the US all have critical elections and right now? The good guys are losing! We ALL have to show up and vote! Especially if you live in: Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida. Iowa and New Hampshire are first though, and very few people show up to their caucus or primary. If we can build a ground swell of support in those states, a bunch of young people all in favor of 1 outcome, we can easily overpower the old geezers who have been making our lives suck for the last 30years! But if we don't? However bad you think things are now? It WILL be worse! It can ALWAYS BE WORSE! We MUST protect what we have, and continue the fight our ancestors stood for every generation since our Founding. And if we win? America can finally take pride in being the greatest country in the world. And the "Free World" will survive, instead of losing to the really big countries west of Hawaii 🌏. Which will, functionally, mean the end of the world 🫠 Support Ukraine 🇺🇦 We are all connected 🌎🌍🌏 And We have the numbers! We CAN win! But we MUST show up to fight

How well has profiteering in healthcare worked for fellow citizens, and children, and the vulnerable? Not!

nah fuck that abandon capitalism asap lmao i dont fuck with communism but we need a weird third thing asap bc this shit aint it 🗣

We can do this ✊🏿 also dont forget to perform first amendment audits

I'll be honest- "no violence" sounds all well and good until you remember these people are killing people. The only difference is that they do it from behind a desk and have the system behind them. Why are the oceans of blood on their hands not considered "violence," yet smashing a window would be? That's absolutely insane and we need to very publicly talk about how absolutely insane that is.

@@miral6694 not to mention most of our reforms against corporations have involved a lot of violence

And as someone born in 1993. Pretty much 60% of what I see wrong is in direct correlation with Reagan and Bush. Bring back unions. Vote left. Single payer healthcare. All my uncles. And grandfather. Had pensions and 100% company provided benefits. While I pay 530$ a month for all mine. With no pension. A 401k that's a 2% match... While the Same General motors job they all worked. Pays 6$ an hour less in 2024 than it did in 2006 before the housing collapse.

whoa i rarely fill out surveys! that is terrible

i couldn't keep up with the month of health care terrors but great series! this is perfect ending. and yes to those who have experienced problems running for office. get the bought out people out!

The US healthcare system sounds like M*A*S*H .... except the service isn't as good

Holy crap, that is comically evil. If this was fiction I'd call it too farfetched and unrealistic.

@@neuralnetwork17 Truth is often stranger than fiction, because fiction is obliged to stick to probabilities, and reality isn't.

He's a studious follower of ethics! The greatest overall good is to be pursued. AT ALL COSTS

"what do we do" "murder" i wasnt sure if that was a proposed solution or simply a description of the problem with healthcare

It would be self defense at this point. DIsclaimer: Do not take this as legal advice.

the health insurance companies commit violence against innocent Americans every day. They do it from a distance and while wearing suits, but they kill even more people that way than if they personally stabbed them.

insurance CEOs have names and addresses~

He's a hero, I think! Oh, and best of luck to you. 😊 Just please make sure you LISTEN to elderly patients, specifically women.😀

Thank you for saying that, and I do hope that you'll be able to follow through. It's not easy to do what is right, but life wouldn't be worth living if everything was easy.

​@diane9247 no, not specifically women. Why should their voice mean more? Wouldn't that mean the voice of men should go unheard? How about equally. Treat every patient the same. Like a human fucking being...........with a life and soul. I'm so over this radical feminist(female supremacy) movement. It has done far far far more damage than good. It always has.

Go on and be the best doctor possible. Humanity needs you. Unfortunately, healthcare is not controlled by doctors. It is controlled by administrators: hospitals (boards), Medicare (federal legislators), insurance companies (executive committees who get to use Medicare payment maximums as a template, state legislators), pharmaceutical companies (executive committees who $influence the FDA and US Congress).

@@HappyLife693 keep an eye on the work strikes... healthcare doctors can demand better for their patients. And I think we need to do something about insurance. They are doing it for profit and it should be about making sure when a person has to go to the doctor that it isn't stupidly expensive. Time to move away from consumerism and discuss other, altruistic views. It's supposed to be "we the people" supporting each other, but right now we are "me myself and fuck everyone else" and we have to "compete" to get ahead instead of elevating all of us. Oh god... I almost feel like I sound crazy 😂

Any of us could be where you, unfortunately, are. Too many just refuse to think they could be, so it's not important to them, especially young people who generally don't have much need for health care. That's one part of the problem. Go ahead and "whine" to high heaven; demand all the help you need whether anyone heeds your call or not. No more silence!

@@virginiamoss7045 it’s actually *because* I’m so young that most people don’t take me seriously. I can’t tell you how often I hear “but you’re too young to have a chronic illness!” And it makes me want to scream. But I won’t stay quiet about it anymore, especially to the doctors that are supposed to be helping me.

​@@gracen8010You can be born with chronic illness. Wtf?

I've usually found that when someone in authority accuses you of being ungrateful, they know full well they're being as useful as Anne Frank's electric guitar, and dislike you calling them out on it because it means they have to do actual work to justify their increasingly egregious wage.

@@gracen8010 If you are female, there's that, too, you know, the old hysterical female syndrome from a hundred years ago and still around in some places. I wish you success and better health.

*huge hugs* I am so, so sorry.. there is nothing right about that..

Do you have type one or something. Or are you just so uncontrolled you absolutely need insulin.

"these corporations can't control social media!" Twitter files: "lol"

​@@Zwei22why is this relevant?

@@EternalAmmonite If you have type 2 diabetes, you generally don't need an insulin pump unless it's horribly uncontrolled. Now I'm not saying the price of the insulin pump is fair, it's bullshit, but I'm just curious about his condition. Type 1 diabetes means he can't make his own insulin, which would require the pump.

No. Like Fire Lord Ozai, they require a greater punishment than Death for their acts. The removal of their power, and being forced to watch as society improves without their 'Help'.

In nursing school during Covid, I just unashamedly ate directly out of the patient canteen during clinicals and nobody said a thing. Love me some vanilla pudding.

I love this character too. It just took until to day for me to get the joke in his name. That's why I'm NOT a medical professional.

Well those snacks are individually wrapped. Is different from getting left over from a plate. I hope you doctors are able to have more scholarships and maybe even a shorter time to graduate like in other countries. Unfortunately medicine became a way for some families to keep status and not really to better society. All those students loans are on purpose so just who can afford become doctors, lawyers, etc. I think people should get in jobs based on their hard work, intelligence and character not because their parent can pay their student loans. For all of you who go to Medical school anyway despite all that corruption and debt, thank you!

If you know the right nurses, they will bring you snacks from the potlucks and from patient trays that never get delivered the patient left (i put them in the fridge just in case a patient or coworker needs food).

Agreed!

Is there a dr glauglenflecken subreddit, discord or other place that his fans can talk. I really think as fans we can push this far and wide. Can maybe provide templates for emails that people can use? Something to consider.

TO ARMS! I opened up my face book. I havent dont that in years. Unfortunatly its my only social media.

​@@Zunip182 Every bit counts! Don't underestimate the ripple effect you can have by even sharing just a little/in just one place, especially as part of a huge motivated group like this! It's not about the size of any given drop in the bucket, it's about tons of us working together as a giant wave. You deserve to feel proud of taking action, no matter the size of the action. As my dad poetically puts it, "The difference between zero and one is infinitely greater than that between one and two"! :)

@@nicholasgignac7065 I totally agree. If I find some time soon I'll try to put some template/inspiration ideas in these comments, but I'm a homeless student and behind on this semester already and currently managing some minor life crises so I've got to try not to spread myself too thin haha XD I think a TON can happen if we really get the community to mobilize together, though! A little effort here and there from people with different skills can combine into some fantastic ways to make action more efficient for people and maximize our collective impact! I quit reddit after the API stuff earlier this year but IIRC someone did make a Glaucomflecken sub to hold the spot for him and the fans lest any impostor take it over, so that could be a thing, or I imagine there's got to be lots of fans already established on medicine-related subs. If there's a Dr. G Discord I'm not aware of it, but I'd join one! I already have a bad habit of starting servers that I don't steward well and which don't go anywhere, so I'll leave that task to someone better equipped and more responsible haha. I'm not super active on most social media myself, so aside from posting on LinkedIn and a couple other places to spread the word and also telling my classmates (tons of health sciences people), I'm going to focus on sending passionate personal emails gradually to my state legislators, especially those on relevant committees, over the next couplefew weeks. I'm decently vocal/networked in the local public health scene, don't really have clout by any means lol but I have an eensy bit of recognition as the Friendly Neighborhood Homeless Girl who pipes up about issues a lot, so I feel like focusing fewer-but-very-customized-and-targeted messages at my local level is how to maximize my personal impact. If I had more time and a bit more compsci skill, I'd love to set up a website or something where people can easily run through just a few clicks to send emails or tweets etc to a compiled list of legislators and such, but I think it'd be very inefficient for me to attempt to do that and I'm hoping people with more skills/experience in that area can throw in some work to create such tools. (I mean, there has to be a lot of precedent for making sites like that, right? There have to already be well-maintained lists of contact info for legislators, right? I live under a rock when it comes to political action at that scale haha, have to choose my battles/keep my scope pretty narrow unfortunately, otherwise I've learned I quickly slip into being mega passionate about everything all the time and get nothing done.)

@@nicholasgignac7065not currently, but if Dr. G wants one I’m more than happy to create one. I have experience moderating and have a small subreddit already.

Polite discourse has gotten us this far hasnt it?!

​@@patches.742Yeah, nowhere!

@@patches.742That's a good point to make. I call it "the human problem" because this isn't isolated to a race, gender, or culture. In every facet of human society, the more power and authority someone commands, the more chances they have to abuse it and the less likely they are to be competent enough to wield it effectively in a way that benefits anyone but themselves. Basically "once you have enough money, you get to write the laws" I'm sure though, that if we just try polite discourse ONE MORE TIME, the powers that be will investigate themselves thoroughly... and find no evidence of wrong-doing.

Riots are the language of a society gone unheard. Martin Luther King Jr.

Very well said!

Who's actually being silent tho? Everyone's vocal, especially when Bernie was running but the mainstream media shut him and everyone who listened to him out, like "nope, no one cares about what he said, he's not actually popular with anyone, look at Trump and Hillary instead please." We protested Bernie or Bust, they said "nope, that never happened." Look up Bernie or Bust protests, it was huge and still ignored, like it didn't matter, we're screwed.

I don't see much hope at the end. Such a large percentage of the population has been brainwashed into thinking these bought off legislators can be changed or that their office can be won by someone without the money they all receive from the medical industry. Jimothy however might be on to something.

Break everything down and then build anew. Yeah, that might be the only way for Americans to get what they need. In the meanwhile, I will enjoy my universal healthcare.

You know what also spearheads the issue? A spear. ❤

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

So if I understand correctly there are training classes being utilized to teach employees to be sociopathic? With the express goal being to desensitize employees from their own emotions, and they're not only getting away with this kind of reeducation brainwashing but it's most likely catching in the insurance industry and is therefore devaluing the client's ability to negotiate for even handed transparent treatment by a service provider they are paying for, their employer is paying for, or the American taxpayer is paying for? Sounds like adequate grounds to me for a willful damages suit. Possibly even resulting in criminal charges being leveled for accessory to a crime through incitement for desensitizing to dehumanizing. Basically the company could be held liable, if their actions which are blatantly purposeful (as they require staff to engage in these trainings) for the purpose of desensitizing staff from their humanity, with the intent of callous treatment of clients becoming normalized which would obviously have implications on the care available to the client. This could actually be actionable for recovering losses for patients wrongfully denied care because the work culture of the company deliberately trains their employees not to care for the client so something as simple as a code entry error that could easily be corrected by the company's employee through communication with the healthcare representative on behalf of the client has no incentive or inclination to do so, because of the adverse effects of the mental health trauma inflicted by their employer. Arguably the employee may have grounds for recovering damages for counseling costs to undo the mental heath trauma their employer deliberately inflicted for their asset protection purposes. All in all it's not good business to teach desensitization and dehumanization for a multitude of reasons and could become quite costly to their profit margin if continued.

​@@marymeloy1804people who can shut out their emotions function better logically. I wish we had those classes for EMS. emotions running hot can skew judgement pretty bad in a hurry.

None of this reach them unfortunately.

The knife was to cut the yach loose like Betsy de Voss nothing else 😂

Vocal minority. The U.S. has aost a century of propaganda that any class war is unlikely and even if it did, the militarization of the police would quash it quickly.

@@rufen78 there are ways they're still people with names, addresses....and loved ones

They, like the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and JFK before them, literally think it can't happen to them. It's like people who think they'll never get cancer, or that they'll never be in an auto accident. If one tempts that fate enough, it becomes inevitable.

Can we start with plan B and use that as part of the messaging that if things don't improve right now there will be more insurance company CEOs, PBM executives, Senators, Representatives and any and all other bureaucrats associated with the evil and greedy intent of the US healthcare system in line for for the gallows?

Oh my god pls I’d watch this as a whole movie

I think Dr. G is saving that for something profoundly profound, like maybe the advent of real universal health care when and if it happens.

And if that don’t work? Use more gun.

Nah. Bronze bull.

Make these corporate execs and puppets fear the people again

​@@seanheath4492*S C A P H I S M*

All for the guillotines.

French revolution, baby

Agreed. 🔥🥰⚔️🔥

Everyone’s a commodity and a throwaway item in this dystopian capitalist nightmare.

Thank you for bringing that up, improving worldwide access to TB care (partially) through the power of PR is a great case study