To my US-based folk with eyes on a trial of the century set to come up in 2026… and please do note that this type of action which may seem random and weird on an individual level, but when made known in greater numbers has a potency to spread like wildfire… I encourage all relatively healthy and relatively young adults in the workforce to waive company-provided healthcare coverage in protest… even if it is free. Even if it heavily subsidized… Even if your other family members might need it…
Because the injustice of the system of care and repair of human mind, bodies, and spirits which has perpetrated great harm on individuals in the United States is by great consensus BROKEN. Please think of someone in your network who can go years without needing even so much as one doctor’s appointment and still feel perfectly healthy and place in them a grand idea, which I suspect may result in a non-trivial, pleasantly surprisingly higher number than believed by the healthcare systems and pull out of the system until single payer is fully achieved.
Purchase necessary medications through the black markets you can find in great quantities and at not so great expense, and DM me for instructions which I will send to your email address if this is you… or if you’re afraid of that, just tell me what you’d need and I’ll work out an automated order entry system and let us break free of the chains of people who hold the health of their fellow human in such low regard that they would lock that basic human right behind a paywall. For example, for myself, I have stocked up from our brothers in India indirectly.
If any of you lurkers out there might wish to join with me on my journey, 3 years on going without healthcare, semi-electively and partially due to being bounced around by unsuitable employers like a ping pong ball, then you need not out yourself by engaging with this post in positive manner, but please instead simply take an action. I suggest not mass protest, but instead a mass Kaepernickian kneel is called for by these times.
Excited to see the trial unfold in real time which may be a zeitgeistian happening to gather great interest and that I intend to follow ascribbedly on my website which I have been promising myself so much that I wish to write much more on.
I am vehemently proud of myself for not having healthcare though in theory one in my position could afford it and does possess life-altering injury (looking at my pinky which prevents me from becoming a piano virtuoso to woo my ex and lover of an alternate future who loved mysterious boys who could bang a piano). 1-2 punch of a Malcolm X type beat by LM followed by MLK-esque demonstration which if partaken by a collective, is certainly large enough to deplete all invested faith in future versions of such parasitic companies on the market of failed civic ideas Change can happen. Change should happen. Charles, my friend would say in his dialect of English – Please do the needful.