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The article postulates that something changed from the Covid pandemic to cause the divergence. I think a more plausible alternate explanation is the cause is a
by dzdt 3y ago
The article postulates that something changed from the Covid pandemic to cause the divergence. I think a more plausible alternate explanation is the cause is a concerted and successful effort to spread misinformation for political reasons.
- ianai 3y agoWith how much information can be purchased or gathered about a person, it seems worthwhile for someone to do a deep dive on a random selection of participants.
- hotpotamus 3y agoI've always seen the American economy as a tool to generate precarity in the working and middle classes (tying your access to healthcare to employment is example one for me) in order to benefit the owning class. I mean, we call it a capitalist economy, not a laborist one; it's not that much of a stretch that it's built to serve owners of capital. I've long been regarded as a depressed malcontent for this view, and yet it seems that over the last few years that most people I know have come around to something like this view. Even my boomer parents who used to have an unshakeable work ethic have become cynical to the system (my mother's employer was bought by a private equity firm and I'm pretty sure their main goal was to drive out any remaining joy that might have lingered in her job). There has always been propaganda and misinformation, why should it only now start to have this effect? Perhaps the pandemic simply changed peoples' perspectives.
- sys_64738 3y ago> tying your access to healthcare to employment is example one for me This is plain wrong nowadays with ACA.
- hotpotamus 3y agoI just put my info into healthcare.gov with $0 in income. Here's the result: > Based on the income and household information you provided, members of your household don't appear to qualify for a premium tax credit or other savings on health insurance. You can continue to view plans, but they'll be listed at full price.
- sys_64738 3y agoAre you doing it right? Almost all people below the poverty level will qualify for basically free plans.
- hotpotamus 3y agoI'm pretty sure I know my own information, but feel free to give it a spin yourself - basically-healthy, single, 37-year-old male in Bexar County Texas. The plans offered were quite far from free and also had deductibles over $7K. Perhaps if I lived in a Medicaid expansion state, things would be better, but I live in Texas with 5.2 million uninsured residents. I suspect if it was so easy to get, then that number would be quite a bit lower.
- sys_64738 3y agoTexas - that’s your problem.