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healthcare costs are a potent force for radicalization (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 31 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Breaking Comrade

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    • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    I mean sure, the market will regulate itself...so why the fuck is the government bailing out companies for the shittiest finacial decisions. What do you mean this company is too big to fail? My brother in capitalism, it is working as intended.

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    [–] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    Me living in a country that has tax-funded healthcare system:

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    [–] 32 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    There are some things that should never be for profit and at the top of that list health and wellness care.

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    • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Apparently this was hasan's radicalizing experience as well

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Hes part of the rich class, he has no concept of having to pay large sums to healthcare where it affects him financially. thats why hes considered "resistance" grifter.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Engels, dude. Having money doesn't make you a grifter. If he wanted to be a grifter, the right has plenty of space and patsies available. He spreads the message and is consistent in that. What the hell you want from him? To take a pointless vow of poverty or something?

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    • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Arguably the prices of healthcare are what they are because of the legal institution of insurance and the system of middlemen involved, so it's not really an example of free markets, but I'll show myself and my logic outta here ok peace

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Free market retoric is used to uphold the current system as is. Which is more-so a weird type of socialism but only for bailing out the elite. If we had real free markets then we'd just let failing business fail

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That's one issue, but there's also the more general issue that healthcare can never be a truly free market - you cannot just decide not to get that lifesaving operation, and often your choice on with which doctor to get it is heavily limited as well.

    It is idiotic to think a free market ideology could ever work in an inherently non-free market.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Yeah I agree & don't have a solution. I've also lived under fully socialized healthcare, and that's quite problematic as well for various reasons including wait times & quality of care / options

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    • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Like having a working healthcare system is some kind of hardcore communist feat instead of something many countries have figured out.

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    [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    that $21,000 figure is a little low in my experience.

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