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Very few completely eschew the option to get medical services when they decide they need them.
by rtkwe 2y ago
Very few completely eschew the option to get medical services when they decide they need them.
- gruez 2y agoThe point is that being far away from critical services is part of the rural-urban tradeoff. It's like being upset that there isn't a level 1 trauma center within a 30 minute drive, because you live in the middle of nowhere. Nobody is going to deny the importance of living near a level 1 trauma center, but you kinda signed up for it when you decided to live in the middle of nowhere.
- fdsseghy 2y agoEasy there. Just because you can afford a computer, internet, car and rent doesn’t mean everyone can. A common theme of rural America is getting out if you can.
- bobthepanda 2y agoIt costs money to move, and if you don’t have the money I wonder how kind the GP commenter would be to someone fleeing a rural area and living out of their car or a tent in their community.
- femiagbabiaka 2y agoSome people do not decide.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoI think the "you signed up for it" rubs me the wrong way. Particularly when it doesn't have to be that way, wasn't always that way, and there are specific policy choices causing a change. Sure, most places never had a level 1 trauma center, but they did have hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies. Many of these medical institutions are leaving despite increasing population due to changing healthcare economics and policy choices.
- soco 2y agoYou signed up for it by deciding to be born in one of the families living there, with no money nor possibilities to move away. Now what? Receive the irony of the well-situated IT workers for it?