I wanted to point out an interesting fact about medicine and healthcare and "self medication."
I self medicate. I order medicines from a reliable pharmacy in the uk, these are not scheduled drugs, but they are by "rx" only, wich basically means they aren't illegal to possess without a prescription. This includes medicines like high blood pressure pills, anti depressants, and stuff like that. I've found that as long as the place has a reliable reputation that its perfectly safe to order and have never had a problem.
Why am I mentioning this? Well, because I wanted to point out something really important here. In the rest of the west, EVERYONE gets healthcare, not just the breeders. In third world countries like India, Mexico, etc, no one gets healthcare without paying and there are no welfare systems for breeders. HOWEVER -- in third world countries, self-medication is allowed, as anyone who has ever been to a third world country will tell you, you can walk into a pharmacy and buy whatever medicines you want.
Now before anyone decries the system of self medication available in third world countries, let's examine what we have here in the states, which is BY FAR much more cruel and inhumane than the policy of the third world countries.
Here in the USA, socialized medicine is immediately and freely available to all breeders, and it's a fight, but also available to the disabled, if you can prove you are disabled and even then it's not anywhere near what the breeders get. Medicare for the elderly I do not consider socialized because we all have to pay into it with our social security.
If you can't afford healthcare or insurance in the USA, you are shit out of luck because you aren't allowed to "self medicate" either. How fucked up is that? If you live anywhere else in the west, there's really no need to self medicate because you can see a dr anytime you need it, in the third world countries, you may not be able to afford healthcare but at the very least, if you can scrape up some pennies, you can go to the pharmacy and self medicate.
ONLY IN THE USA do we have such a fucked up cruel system which not only denies certain people access to the socialized medicine that is already in place here, but also does not allow you to self medicate.
Now, I'm not saying self medication is a great thing or preferable to seeing a doctor, but fuck me sideways people, how fucking cruel is it to extort money from us for a socialized medicine system we are not allowed to use and then turn around and tell us we aren't allowed to treat ourselves either???!! Goddamned if I will go along with that shit.