Mia Wong
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Then there is the issue, and this is an issue that we've covered on the show from other lenses, which is that like, yeah, like we're dealing with these like large scale waves of hospital closures.
And the less hospitals that exist in an area, and particularly in the sort of working class areas where these people are living...
The more those hospitals close, because those are the ones that are closing because they're losing a whole bunch of funding from the government.
And, you know, there's a series of other economic pressures there.
The more those options disappear, the more reliant people are on these Catholic hospitals, which have just implemented an adult healthcare ban.
Like, the Republicans in Congress aren't pushing that right now.
I cannot emphasize how unbelievably draconian and reactionary this is.
Well, and also they're doing it the same time that you have major progressive media figures, legislators praising the current Pope for uttering some words about universal healthcare.
They don't practice universal healthcare in their own networks.
Not just with trans people, but definitely not with trans people.
It's like they have the money to like they could.