u.s. govt: we can't? hold my beer.

49 billiion+ dollars of inefficiency.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Maybe you Americans should wait until there's 50 so you can evenly distribute them to all of your states for consumption.

Although I think you would then want 56 of them If you include American ~~vassals~~ territories

Okay but it was kinda easy for a connect the dots puzzle

but defense budget can afford universal healthcare for servicemembers, although it tends to be low quality, and also congressmen have universal healthcare.

I don't live in the US. But from the outside....

We can't keep tying healthcare to employment

You can; and you will.

I unfortunately don't see structural reform in your short to medium term future.

Here is a list of the 49 individuals. Names help give weight to accusations of wealth hoarding.

https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2026/03/18/healthcare-billionaires

From the article: Forbes divided its list of billionaires into several categories, including industry and country. The billionaires from the United States in the healthcare industry were:

48. Thomas Frist, Jr. & family, founder of Hospital Corp. of America ($41.1 billion)

49. Carl Cook, current CEO of medical device manufacturer Cook Group ($11.7 billion)

50. Robert Duggan, co-CEO of Summit Therapeutics ($11.6 billion)

51. Charlie Mills, chair of medical supplies company Medline ($11.4 billion)

52. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a physician and inventor of the blockbuster cancer drug Abraxane ($10.5 billion)

53. John Brown, former chair of medical device and software company Stryker Corp. ($8.5 billion)

54. Ronda Stryker, current director of Stryker Corp. ($8.5 billion)

55. Li Ge, chair and CEO of Wuxi Apptec, which provides research and clinical trial services to biotech and pharmaceutical industries worldwide ($7.6 billion)

56. Reinhold Schmieding, founder of Arthrex, an orthopedic surgical tools company ($6 billion)

57. Andy Mills, director and former president of Medline ($5.7 billion)

58. Jon Stryker, grandson of Homer Stryker, founder of Stryker Corp. ($5.7 billion)

59. Wendy Abrams, shareholder in Medline, which was founded by her father Jon Mills and uncle Jim Mills ($4.7 billion)

60. Nancy Mills Barnett, shareholder in Medline, which was founded by her father Jon Mills and uncle Jim Mills ($4.4 billion)

61. Steward Rahr, who expanded Kinray and sold it to Cardinal Health in 2010 ($4.3 billion)

62. Pat Stryker, granddaughter of Homer Stryker, founder of Stryker Corp. ($4.1 billion)

63. Margaret Baker, shareholder in Medline, which was founded by her father Jon Mills and uncle Jim Mills ($3.9 billion)

64. August Troendle, CEO of Medpace, a clinical research company ($3.5 billion)

65. Keith Dunleavy & family, founder of Inovalon, a cloud-based software and healthcare analytics firm ($3.4 billion)

66. Wayne Rothbaum, founder of investment firm Quogue Capital and successful biotech investor ($2.9 billion)

67. Leonard Schleifer, cofounder and CEO of drugmaker Regeneron ($2.8 billion)

68. David Dean Halbert, who built the diagnostics firm Caris Life Sciences ($2.6 billion)

69. Jason Murray, cofounder, chair, and CEO of PACS Group, which operates skilled nursing facilities ($2.4 billion)

70. Mark Hancock, cofounder and EVP of PACS Group ($2.4 billion)

71. Vivek Ramaswamy, biotech entrepreneur, author, and Republican politician who ran for president in 2024 ($2.4 billion)

72. David Paul, founder and executive chair of Globus Medical, a spine implant manufacturer ($2.4 billion)

73. Phillip Frost, a long-time healthcare investor, inventor and founder who now runs diagnostics maker Opko Health ($2.3 billion)

74. Alan Miller & family, founder of Universal Health Services ($2.1 billion)

75. Randal J. Kirk, former attorney and executive chair of investment firm Third Security ($2 billion)

76. Amy Wyss, daughter of Hansjoerg Wyss, who founded the medical equipment firm Synthes ($2 billion)

77. John Abele & family, cofounder of Boston Scientific ($2 billion)

78. James Leininger, founder of Kinetic Concepts, a medical devices company ($1.9 billion)

79. Noubar Afeyan, founder and CEO of life sciences innovation firm Flagship Pioneering ($1.9 billion)

80. John Oyler, CEO, cofounder, and chair of global oncology company BeOne Medicines ($1.9 billion)

81. Forrest Preston, founder of Life Care Centers of America ($1.8 billion)

82. Gary Michelson, a retired orthopedic and spinal surgeon who holds roughly 340 U.S. patents for orthopedic and spinal surgery instruments ($1.8 billion)

83. George Yancopoulos, chief scientific officer at Regeneron ($1.8 billion)

84. Martine Rothblatt, cofounder of Sirius Satellite Radio and founder of United Therapeutics ($1.7 billion)

85. Hao Hong, chair of Asymchem Laboratories, which provides pharmaceutical outsourcing services ($1.7 billion)

86. Lee Sang-hoon, founder, chair, CEO and chief research officer of ABL Bio ($1.6 billion)

87. Rick Workman, founder and chair of Heartland Dental, the largest dental support organization in the United States ($1.6 billion)

88. Herriot Tabuteau, founder of Axsome Therapeutics ($1.5 billion)

89. Jeff Tangney, cofounder of Doximity, also known as "LinkedIn for doctors" ($1.4 billion)

90. Ed Park, cofounder of Devoted Health, a healthcare company focused on older Americans ($1.4 billion)

91. Todd Park, cofounder of Devoted Health ($1.4 billion)

92. Joe Kiani, founder of medical technology firm Masimo Corp. ($1.2 billion)

93. Yu De-Chao, chair and CEO of Innovent Biologics ($1.1 billion)

94. Timothy Springer, an immunologist and professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Harvard Medical School ($1.1 billion)

95. Michelle Xia, cofounder, chair, and CEO of biotech firm Akeso ($1.1 billion)

96. Wu Jinzi, founder, chair, and CEO of Ascletis Pharma ($1 billion)

(How depressing to have over three thousand individuals worth the vast majority of wealth in this world)

Yeah I think people have connected the dots, that doesn't magically take the power away from the people holding healthcare hostage. Right now the debate is "are you going to give people a reasonable standard of living through civil processes or do we have to rip you apart and eat you?"

The only reason this is the setup. Was under FDR the top tax bracket was 94% of gross pay.

For the insanely highly paid, it just wasn't cost effective to keep paying CEOs so much, so companies made amazing healthcare packages to stand out to potential employees.

That was 80 years ago, and all the good bits are gone and the shit remains.

We need to fix our healthcare, but absolutely nothing is more important than getting that top tax rate back up to around 94% or even higher. That has to be the highest priority, because that's how we pay for everything and fight wealth inequality

I love posts like this because the comments always devolve into 50/50 people who don't live in the country (doesn't need to be the US, it could be the UK or Belgium or Singapore) being discussed telling others to either throw their entire life away on the thin hope that they spark a revolution, or simply commit suicide by cop while getting shot disobeying, all from the safety of their living room.

The only people who are capable of connecting the dots already know what needs done to get desired results, either peacefully or through violence, and are either doing everything they can to make sure it DOESN'T turn to violence, or preparing for when violence does happen.

I have been saying this for YEARS. It is how the capitalistic overlords want it and why they throw money against medicare for all.

Profit based health insurance is immoral.

Problem is not connecting the dots the problem is being able to change something about it when the regulatory is controlled by the people who profit from the dots

As someone who is going to die from lack of healthcare. It’s frustrating but what am I supposed to do in this situation? At the end of the day I’ll be another statistic but I’m kinda hopeful that it’ll be over soon. If worst comes to worst I’ll go to the ER but I have been getting gradually better minus the heart attacks.

What’s really weird to me is that there are already at least two federal universal healthcare systems in the US covering some 3.5 million people but for some reason we still can’t figure this out.

• IHS
• VA

all you guys ever do is connect dots. do something with the information, please.