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[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Anyone who believes health insurance is about healthcare is deeply blessed to have not had to use it before.

It’s an industry built on denying care.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

When you right wing nut friends are gloating with you as left wing nut, you know that these "leaders" fucked up big time.

I never seen such alignment within my life time.

Christmas is finally gonna be a proper family affair too!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

There's actually way more agreement than people think about what's broken in society and the causes of it, at least at a surface level. The problem is our differing views on how to fix it all.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

At the same time, how is it the right-wingers hate health insurance companies so much that they support the assassination of one of the CEOs... but they don't support universal health care?

Probably for the same reason a bunch of people voted to protect abortion while using the same ballot to elect the guy who got the protection taken away in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All insurance is built on denying payouts. That's the entire mechanism by which they extract profit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You’re absolutely right.

Maybe we should have a health system based on providing a good standard of care for all our people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Too Much Common sense.