The legislation was opposed by companies such as Amazon and the statewide nonprofit Oregon Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, an industry group, where executives see private investment as vital to their business strategy. “We universally agree that the way to protect clinics from closure and maintain the broadest patient access to outpatient care is to keep the existing, and multi-ownership models alive and well,” wrote Ryan Grimm on behalf of the association and the Portland Clinic, a private multispecialty medical group, in a March letter to lawmakers. “In some communities, there is no hospital to swoop in to the rescue, or no hospital in a financial position to save a clinic,” he wrote. The bill does not go into effect immediately and it contains a three-year adjustment period for clinics to comply with the restrictions. Institutions such as hospitals, tribal health facilities, behavioral health programs and crisis lines are exempted.

Mein Gott, a ray of sanity! Listen it’s not everything a constituent can hope for but it’s a giant step in the right direction. Congratulations, Oregon!

I was remembering the article about Alabama, open raw sewage pits, and worms. A lot of red state residents can’t afford proper health care, let alone prescription medication. Depending on the price, this may be helpful for the not-insane parents and farmers.

When the world currencies reflect their true value, which is nothing, then what?

You and I see the world very differently. You see money as strength; I see it as a tool, a means to an end. Nonetheless, a coalition may be beneficial.

No one had the honesty or will to do it on easy mode. Child labor and slave fishers and mass natural wealth extraction for little gain is not only still going on, the world over. Sometimes in slow news cycles, the corporate media will toss out a reminder story, people may call their reps and do a little clicktivism for a month, then go back to trying to survive on less hours, for less pay, and working multiple jobs, then being surprised that now 70-80% of the population can’t make ends meet while shopping groceries on pay-over-time schemes.

In short, the fire under our collective butt isn’t hot enough to motivate us, yet.

I searched for a post but couldn’t find it now, and it’s too bad because it addresses exactly this mindset, but basically talked about how liberalism boils everything down to a zero sum game, among the general populace.

Somehow, the masses never develop enough unity to take that zero sum game to the ultrawealthy and global corporations.

That’s pretty callow, imo.

Is water good or bad? Are you drowning, or thirsty? Maybe you’re swimming. Maybe it’s in water where raw sewage or chemical waste is dumped. Maybe it’s pristine and you accidentally swallow some, but now you have cholera because an infected animal eliminated in that spot. Maybe it’s full of microplastics.

Instead, maybe you can picture life questions as one of those color picker sliders, and the slider can move infinitely in any direction.

Life isn’t black and white, you know?

I think red states need to be humbled, and I live in one. Not that they should be denied those things, but never given another opportunity or concession as in post civil war.

It always was complicity, too. Sherman should have burned it all, zero concessions given.

There are ways to survive without doing that. Most will do that though, because they already are. The oppressed would rather exploit each other than the system, because of the few that made the news, it didn’t go very well. For those that didn’t, enforcement apparatus was well-paid.

I bet a few red states are in for a surprise.

JRR Tolkien had smeagol a chance at redemption, but Sam blew it. There’s a yt video about it, if anyone cares to look.

Yeah, the last time a rebellion happened, it was to reinstate full blown fascism, and what few concessions were pissed away because we got too comfortable, and when that wore off everyone was too soft to venture anything, with a few notable exceptions.

It’s not doing well in the EU either.

The feds are breaking the law but my compatriots by and large have given them a pass.

I feel like indie news is more important than ever, even if it means hand-cranked mimeos and passing them from person to person. Telecom can be cut at any time.

They put it in quotes.

Kkkamala who jailed poor single parents when their kids couldn’t get to school because Mom was in the hospital.

Apparently.