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The Tobacco industry knew that their industry was doomed. It's coldly rational, if a bit sociopathic, to decide to extract maximum value from your industry befo
by ashtonkem 5y ago
The Tobacco industry knew that their industry was doomed. It's coldly rational, if a bit sociopathic, to decide to extract maximum value from your industry before what you perceive as an inevitable decline at the expense of your customers health. The oil industry is in a similar situation now, IMO.
The private health care industry is not in such a situation. There is no guarantee that socialized healthcare is the future for America. But the more and more they attempt to extract from consumers per year, the more likely they make it that socialized medicine will happen here.
- cratermoon 5y ago> There is no guarantee that socialized healthcare is the future for America The private health insurance industry in the US is doomed. Whether or not the outcome is "socialized medicine" or some other form of universal healthcare coverage is beside the point.
- ashtonkem 5y agoI don’t think current polling bears that out. If you look at any questions that imply or explicitly state that universal healthcare will eliminate their insurance, then those questions poll deeply underwater. Furthermore, I don’t think anything political like this is pre-ordained.
- cratermoon 5y agoIt's not the polls or politics that matter, it's the economics.