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Ive been thinking all day about john fetterman thinking healthcare "for a family" costs $4k a year (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Like i dunno it's one thing for him to be outright evil and doing evil for evil purposes, but he's literally a fucking u.s. senator with all the power and authority and ability to find real information that entails, and he seems to genuinely think that that is what the american public is paying. I don't even know what that is. It's like an ignorance so deep and so profound and so thoroughly rotted from within that it's become evil in and of itself

I sincerely hope i live to see the day he becomes john fettered man

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[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

To be basically fine and still pay $4k a year (probably around 5% of gross income) just for basic preventative care is absurd.

That would sort of be the point of insurance, wouldn't it? To pay an inflated rate when nothing happens to you, so you can still afford treatment that would be impossible to afford without insurance.

[-] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

I don't think you're wrong in the sense that this is (mostly) how the system works but treating health insurance like any other kind of insurance is exactly why it is so expensive and unwieldy.