The more I read about what it's like to try and get Healthcare during a medical system collapse, the more it sounds like how it's felt to try and get medical care as a trans person this entire past half-decade.

Needless, interminable waiting?

Difficulty getting the tests you need?

Prescriptions hard to get, or given with odd moralistic strings attached?

A lack of compassion as a baseline, verging on hostility if you're too much trouble?

Having to be 100% up on what you need, with the spoons to self-monitor?

Feeling utterly on your own?

Gaslit by the country's leadership that things aren't as bad as you can see they are?

Blamed and treated with hatred by other patients who see you as expensive competition?

Subject to painful and dangerous mistakes of negligence?

Having to seriously weigh whether pursuing medical care for one issue will leave other issues you have worse off?

This is what I've experienced for five years, as a trans person, especially one with a separate chronic illness. It's how it has always been, for millions of minorities.

Now it's hitting the mainstream.

Wish I knew what else to say.