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Healthcare system is so fucked šŸ’€
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Anonymous 4w

It has been that way since Obamacare was started. Everyone thinking ā€œyay!ā€ When it drove up insurance premiums and medical costs since Medicaid doesn’t cover the full bill even if the patient pays zero

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Anonymous 4w

It’s similar to the education cartel where both see the money a family generates and adjust the prices to basically take the whole family budget. Education prices tuition so the parents pay or student is in debt due to the buying power of the parents. Medical system runs the credit of the patient and knows their assets so in civil court they can claw it.

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Anonymous 4w

That’s why I stopped healthcare too many sweats

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Anonymous 4w

Health became a cartel. Cartels are not a good thing in economics. It’s basically an oligarchy where hospitals, insurance, and pharmaceuticals collude. Medical professional licenses use to have a seat on the table but got kicked out when private equity came in and bought the hospitals.

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Anonymous 4w

It’s a cycle of industry where in time a cartel forms and it’s a scam on the public. The medical staff get treated like maids pressured to clear each room like some hotel rather than see the patients for what is wrong with them to treat.

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Anonymous 4w

Cartels are about asset striping the society with no competition. Such extremes is how corporate towns formed where one guy owned the whole city. Seeing what big tech is up to lately, they are seeking their own corporate towns after so much bad policy destroyed San Francisco.

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Anonymous 4w

what do you mean the nurses, the FRONTLINE OF HEALTHCARE, struggle to pay for healthcare and are now on strike because they’re trying to take healthcare benefits away……from the healthcare workers

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Anonymous 4w

Glad I got out of Healthcare

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Anonymous replying to -> dawn_broom86 4w

or maybe we just stop exploiting the system. theres no reason the top five execs of NYP make 100m a year combined. that’s exploitation of nurses, doctors, and patients.

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Anonymous replying to -> dawn_broom86 4w

Tell me you don’t understand insurance without telling me you don’t understand insurance LOL

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Anonymous replying to -> dawn_broom86 4w

Not cus of Obamacare. But insurance is a scam. We need universal healthcare.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

At what point does it end? What do we do about it? It’s my top voting priority and yet my local and national electoral candidates rarely make it theirs unless they’re third party and then they lose

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 4w

I don’t get how people think free universal healthcare isn’t gonna cost them a dime lmfao

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 4w

Weird because that’s my job keyboard warrior

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Anonymous replying to -> dawn_broom86 4w

Strawman argument: I didn’t say it wouldn’t cost anything. Right now private health insurance spends over 20% of their operating budget on administrative bs. That’s not including the 9 figure CEO salaries and stock buy backs. Government healthcare on the other hand spends around 8% of its operating budget on administrative bs and doesn’t pay a ceo tens of millions of $ a year to maximize shareholder profit.

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Anonymous replying to -> dawn_broom86 4w

If you’re spending 20% of your income on healthcare. And universal healthcare is a 10% tax increase, you’re saving money AND there would be no more uninsured people. No more deductibles and copays. No more in network/ out of network. No more switching doctors every time you change insurance. Eat my ass

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 4w

So you’re telling me that someone who makes 30,000 gets the same benefits as someone who makes 50,000 or 60,000??? Explain to me how that makes sense

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Anonymous replying to -> dawn_broom86 4w

It’s actually my job and I’m pretty sure you’re unqualified

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 4w

You still have yet to explain how that makes sense. So tell me why I should pay more than someone else when we are getting the same benefits? Also you know that trying to be seen by a physician with a country that runs that makes it substantially harder to be seen. The U.S. is already short on doctors as is and next to impossible to be seen in a timely manner.

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Anonymous replying to -> dawn_broom86 4w

Do you understand how Medicare disperses funds or how government gives insurance companies subsidies? Do you know what that even means? Let me break it down for you. The government gives insurance companies money, from our tax dollars, to fund payment for people’s treatments. That’s on top of you, paying the insurance companies premiums and deductibles, and on top of that, insurance companies can still refuse to cover or pay for your treatments. Even if they themselves have ā€œauthorizedā€ it

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Anonymous replying to -> dawn_broom86 4w

So in reality, insurance companies are double dipping from the government (aka us) and us directly. lol So yea, universal healthcare will cost some money, but they won’t have to tax us more. It’s the same propaganda that makes people fall for stupid shit all the time. And how do I know? You call it Obamacare instead of Medicare/Medicaid.

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Anonymous replying to -> dawn_broom86 4w

Wait, so someone who makes less than the rich gets the same service as the rich person. We better stop all of that. End the postal service, the fire department, the police department, the roads, and everything used by the public… It makes sense because the health of Americans is in the best interest of the state. We’re letting the rich rip us off.

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