• AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    I fucking hate that this is a thing. “We can’t stop doing this useless and/or detrimental thing, look at all the work it makes for other people to do!!!” Absolutely bonkers that it’s just a standard political argument.

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      3 months ago

      Same thing with medical insurance. It shouldn’t exist but it pays a lot of people’s salaries.

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        3 months ago

        The worst part is if people only worked two or three days a week corporations would still be profitable and everyone would have a job.

        • smb@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          i once heared something like this:

          “the idea of having more than those who have nothing is the very only reason shareholders can ever imagine someone would work for at all, thus they also falsely believe they would do something good when enforcing this by removing everything from those who already are vulnerable and thus create a living example of how you would end when you don’t help them rob even more.”

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        3 months ago

        It shouldn’t exist? I’d like to see you pay for your medical expenses out of pocket.

        P. S. No, I am not American.

        • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 months ago

          Here in the states when we say “medical insurance shouldn’t exist” what we mean is “the medical insurance industry shouldn’t exist”

          Basically the cluster fuck of insurance companies we have now shouldn’t exist, we should just have a single payer type system where medical expenses are paid for through our tax dollars. In its current state it’s a nightmare to deal with.

        • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
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          3 months ago

          A lot of private insurance in the US amounts to paying a couple hundred monthly to have the insurance and then they deny payment for basically anything and everything. So you pay them to pay out of pocket anyway.

          Just got state insurance which covers everything, but very few offices accept it.

          So yeah. Insurance in the US is super fucked up and people go without healthcare, even if they have insurance because they simply can’t afford it.

        • not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          Yeah I guess the kind of Single Payer model I prefer can be conceptualised as “insurance.” But it feels more like health care is taxpayer funded. The similarity to insurance is just details for the detail nerds.