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Why would I pay the government to collect a pool of money to pay for other people's medical needs?
Much better to pay a private company to collect a pool of money, skim a bunch for profit, invest the rest for more profit, conspire to make healthcare prices unaffordable to users so they don't have a choice anyway, and then use that money only to pay for some of the other people's medical needs while denying healthcare for the rest, including myself? It's a much better system. Here's a link to an article funded by a US pharmaceutical company...
But as an upshot it shackles people to their job by tying Healthcare to employment, which means you get all these nice wage slaves that can't afford to quit so you can suppress their wage, and they can't break into their own businesses without the capital from those suppressed wages, which means even less competition for you.
I see no downsides to this /s
Nah bro, it totally makes sense that IBX pays the Phillies millions of dollars for a jersey advertisement instead of investing that money into patient care. IBX totally cares because they made an ad at a local coffee shop!
Is the same as saying
And people believe it!
"Why should I pay for someone who cannot work to live?"
"Why should I pay for water to be clean that I may never drink, or air I may never breathe?"
The corporate brainwashing is staggering.
I like to point out that animals take care of each other when they are injured. If civilization collapsed tomorrow, those hyper-individualists types would be the first ones to get targeted by natural selection
The rich people with jets don’t really care about the whole interstate system, just their neighborhood.
And those “other people” upset the racists. They view universal healthcare not as leveling the playing field, but riding mass transit. “Ew, <insert ‘lesser quality’> people.”
To me that’s the key to fighting Republican sentiment; they don’t trust the government, but it’s not a question of whether the government should control healthcare - it’s a question of WHO controls it. Same for a lot of other topics like environmental protection.