It’s funny. I’ve been called a “tankie” too for stating truths about China that are uncomfortable to its critics.

It’s almost as if “tankie” is a word that has no intrinsic meaning outside of “you are someone I disagree with and I need an epithet”. Pretty much the same as every other political epithet this way.

So I pretty much take anybody using the term “tankie” unironically and give them as much credence as I give anybody who uses words like “woke” or “DEI” or even “sheeple” unironically. I assume they’re a) ignorant cunts, and b) assholes.

If u break your leg - is hospital going to turn u away?

They will do the minimum amount of care to stabilize you and if you can’t pay, send you away.

If u don’t have insurance - are u going to owe 200k for broken leg?

Not 200K. Not even in RMB. A broken leg will be a few hundred. But yes, if you do not have insurance you’re paying.

If you cant pay for treatment - do they take your house?

If you can’t pay for treatment you may just die. A student of mine got hit by a bus and took tremendous head trauma. The surgery for this was 30,000RMB. He was from the countryside so he and his family didn’t have 30,000 RMB. He got no treatment beyond basic stabilization until his classmates and teachers gathered up a substantial portion of that 30,000. Then they saved his life.

In. That. Order.

I think u maybe confused about what universal health care is.

I think you may have no clue what you’re talking about vis a vis China.

Now all that being said, if you’re employed at all, by anybody, anywhere, you automatically have health insurance, mandated by law. And, being state-run insurance firms, they’re not the utter steaming shitpile that American “health insurance” is. But if you’re not employed, or if you’re self-employed, you either get insurance on your own, or you pay out of pocket. There is no universal health care.

P.S.

An AMERICAN telling a CANADIAN that she doesn’t know what universal health care is is hilarious. Also, an American telling someone who’s been living in China for almost a quarter of a century how China really works is even more hilarious.

What’s next? Are you going to tell me what the city of Wuhan is really like?

China does not have universal health care (if that’s what “uhc” means).

Source: I live here.

It hinges on whether Canadians will continue to tolerate Americans in general or not.

Signs point to “no”, if prevailing trends are anything to go by.

Why don’t you stay in your homeland and fix the problem you had a hand in creating instead of exporting it?

The fact you’re using “fee fees” unironically says enough about you that I’m pretty sure that Canadians don’t want you. We have enough assholes, thank you very much.

And here you come SO FUCKING CLOSE … and still fumble the ball. Tsk. Tsk.

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(Hint: Check your assumptions. And while you’re at it check the thread history.)

I’m pretty sure that any murder is a death sentence.

(Hint: check your assumptions.)

Yes it is, actually.

I hate you so much right now.

Ouch! That hurts!

I know. That’s why I was so touched!

It’s a bit lame tbh

Why thank you! 😀

I am not sure what you mean by saying the CPC isn’t Communist anymore.

The CPC has never been communist.

It’s socialist.

The number drops a bit when the polls are done in secrecy. Still far higher than any western government, mind.

To clarify for any pseudo intellectual who happens to be reading:

“<X> is true for <reason> you utter idiot” is not an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

“<X> is true because you’re an utter idiot” is an example of the ad hominem fallacy.

Glad to be of service.

Have you considered taking a communications course so you don’t sound like a pretentious, obfuscating jackass?

Eschew gratuitous obfuscation. (See what I mean?)

In AI alone, we lead the world.

*Deep Seek has entered the chat.*

I think even darker (as the response to @Glide@lemmy.ca indicates). When I see incel behaviour from a man, I make damned sure that man is always in my sight and at a distance. And I won’t accept any drink from him, nor any invitation to go somewhere else, even if it’s in the same building.