Sir, excuse me, sir, pardon me you almost left behind this very important /s. These things are mandatory, wouldn’t want to lose it.

It wasn’t exactly Bipartisan, it was every single Democrat and also 11 Republicans.

You mean like HR 1 For the People Act which passed the house twice but got filibustered and 30 years of campaign finance reform starting with a 1995 bill outlawing large donations (which was passed in 2002 but stricken down by the scotus 5:4 as the basis for Citizens United) that

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Republicans refuse to pass?

This is a partisan issue, bothsidesing this is pure ignorance. Get 60 Dem senators and watch it get fixed.

I AM HORN.

No. If the insurance didn’t create the atmosphere of territorial turfing, prices would be naturally set by competition. They would be much more accessible.

Hospitals aren’t very competitive. Theres maybe 1 in a large town and that’s it. Small practices are already competitive. You do have a point about insurance companies intentionally driving costs up, but the hospital networks themselves have even more say and the only way to take that power away is having regulators set the prices and not the providers.

Let us not forget the amount of claims that get denied in order to guarantee financial solvency for the middleman parasites.

Average 18% denied, less than a percentage of denied claims appealed. So 82% of claims get covered.

Yeah. Let’s just support this nonsense by printing more money. /s

Actually, as I mentioned, the government would spend less than they currently do.

Direct violence is out of fashion. Now it is all about systematic financial crippling into homelessness and starvation.

Because nobody ever wins with direct violence. Everyone loses.

Do you ever feel strange as a left handed person in a world where the Right Hand Rules

It’s actually explicitly not mandatory.

If your only options for insurance are unlikely to cover the expected costs of your care because of their terms, then it’s only a loss. If your coverage might cover tens of thousands of dollars of surgery that you couldn’t cover otherwise, then it’s prudent to take the insurance fee loss than the surgery loss.

In a system where insurance doesn’t exist but the government also doesn’t fund it, each individual person would be financially crippled with debt if anything ever went wrong. We’ve also seen healthcare savings plans and mutual funds equally or even moreso capable of such fraud and unethical terms.

Ideally, we would elect representatives who want all healthcare funded through the government. The government is very clearly capable of operating at a deficit, and in fact would spend less under that system than they do currently on healthcare through subsidies and programs which compete with insurance companies despite not having authority over medical pricing.

I actually think a better analogy is treating it as a tax than a racket, currently. It’s still not accurate, but if you avoid paying it long enough then you get the mother of all fines. If you avoid paying a racket, you’ll also get the mother of all fines, because they’re gonna break your fucking legs.

Walmart wins the ugly sweater contest if they had one so bad they had to issue a public apology for it.

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Only the tastiest of livers will be saved.

I hope you cleaned up after yourself before you left.

The skeleton represents mass sickness and starvation.

Hopefully somebody gets you some glasses this year.

The only people committing the loosest possible definition of violence on people with medical debt are voters.

This problem was created by the US Citizens because they vote conservative.

Read the comments.

The Civil War was STARTED BY THE SLAVERS because the peaceful democracy was ABOLISHING SLAVERY WITH LEGISLATION.

Shit like that is why I think neuro-atypical people might actually be the correct psychological state and everyone else is just a “normal” animal.

Yes the mayor showed up when they transported Luigi Mangione in New York, but not when they transported an immolator.

The comment by EleventhHour calls the NYPD “shitty fascist people they always are” because they’re pictured here arresting a man who set a random woman on public transit on fire. I interpret that as EleventhHour does not like it when the NYPD arrest violent arsonists. Because the user said so, just now, at the top of this thread.

Okay but this is a post about a violent arsonist being arrested and the user chose to start cussing out the police.

You can see how that qualifies as endorsement for violent arson, right?