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usians are the most propagandized people on earth

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Basically anything related to Healthcare just annoys me to no end because the people who argue Healthcare use strawman en masse (mainly about part time / low wage workers) instead of actually debating real issues that affect employees like corporate culture forcing HSAs onto people who have no need for them to meet quotas (this might be tinfoil) or removing good HMO/PPO offerings for worse plans to cut costs on the employer.

“Poor people are just straw men. The real healthcare issues are with the middle class white collar bullshit job workers and PMCs.”

Beyond parody.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I hate when people act as improving the healthcare system is a "complex issue", when pretty much every developed nation aside from the US manages to do better. It's not even good from a "fiscally conservative" standpoint; the US has by far the highest healthcare expenditure per capita in terms of government spending alone. Yet even the (relatively) progressive politicians have to talk about additional taxes on the rich to "justify" universal healthcare or else they'll be treated as "naive fools who think money grows on trees".

Why do we need to "debate real issues" when it's plainly obvious that the American healthcare system is objectively worse than even other capitalist nations (the wealthy ones anyways) just from a basic observation? Even high-income PMC types would benefit from not having to deal with insurance and whatever. Though it sucks that in a lot of places that do have universal healthcare, politicians are actively sabotaging it to justify privatization. Comes to show that the "free market" can only "prove" it's superiority through deception.