• friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Well no shit. Have you seen these insurance policies?

    It’s like this: anybody who thinks they like their insurance policy isn’t using it.

    Edit: ITT: people describing the problem as if it’s not the problem.

  • unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    “even though most are insured” Of course they have debt - insurance is a scam, it’s not a solution to a problem, it’s a problem you accept to act as a middleman between you and other possibly bigger problems enabled by the incredibly shitty culture we’ve created which is not worth continuing.

    And the prices of american health care are a direct response to that scam, by the way. as far as they’re concerned every bill is directed at the insurance industry and is aimed at recouping lost costs due to the bullshit insurance companies pull.

    Just because it’s always been this way doesn’t mean it’s not incredibly, incredibly dumb.

  • LustyArgonian@lemmy.world
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    If the FDA, FTC, USDA, EPA, Depts of Transportation, and CDC wanted to guarantee and check their work, we’d have universal healthcare. And in fact I think that’s exactly the legal argument for why the government should be FORCED to provide us healthcare - how else would we be able to catch (and class action sue for) large community-wide health hazards such as:

    -asbestos in baby powder

    -lead and heavy metals in vitamins and supplements

    -consistency of dosing in medications

    -Deaths from auto accidents when we should be having trains

    -Deaths from contaminated eggs, meat, milk from bird flu or other pathogens

    -Products that are blatant lies/false

    -Companies leaking chemicals into water supplies

    -Lead in water supply

    -Heavy metals in water supply& in crops, from exhaust from cars and bits of tires

    -imminent looming climate change

    Gee, I wonder why corporations are scared of us getting healthcare?

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    Wanna know something? I’m Canadian with universal healthcare and I also have medical debt!

    They’ve cut so many essentials out of healthcare here that we now pay out of pocket for injury rehab, foot issues, and hearing loss, etc.

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      This is how they do it. Cut essential services, then point at the socialized system and say how bad it is.

      They’re doing the same to public education in America. Their end goal is to push people into private, read mostly religious, education. Evangelical Christians have had a hold on the GOP since Reagan.