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Which healthcare would you choose? (discuss.online)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I can’t believe my fellow Americans who are so worried about how much a real healthcare system would cost when we are getting crushed under the most expensive fucking system in the world. It’s like they take all the current price tags from our corrupt, bullshit system that doesn’t serve everyone and apply them to the whole population, completely ignoring the price negotiation power of single-payer and all the gouging and waste we get from the corporations.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The 2024 election in particular has shown that we have a LOT of really fucking stupid people here.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I am probably just older than you but this hit me big in 2004. I was like “oh… you want more of this? What the fuck…”

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    That one could at least be explained by 9/11 "patriotism." Still stupid, though.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I was so disgusted by the Iraq invasion as a response to 9/11 that I felt sure the patriotic thing to do was get Halliburton out of the White House. But they managed to scare up all that WMD noise and then they invented “swift boating.” All this after they literally stole the 2000 election.

    I know what you mean though. And it was all extremely stupid. Hillary helped, which is why I never supported her.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    we pay 2-4times as much as the next country, plus we have worst heatlh outcomes in terms of mortality and morbidity even under an insurance. oh but we can pay 800+bn to fund defense contractors and ISRAEL own healthcare and military, soon to be 1.5trillion in defense budget because trump think this is a better distraction. oh and a nice fact, the military and thier family also has accessed to subsidized insurance, aka tricare.

    also healthcare for new mothers is pretty pisspoor, in both prenatal and post natal births. POC, and black people gets the worst outcomes(morbidity and mortality) over white mothers.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Do you know of any data about outcomes specifically for Americans with insurance? People without any coverage avoid getting care and that of course leads to terrible outcomes. I’m wondering how much that is factored in. It’s terrible either way: a healthcare system that leaves people out is not a healthcare system.

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