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It should be addressed, but it is not addressed. Even though this is a serious issue that intimately, negatively affects nearly every American citizen at some
by RoyalHenOil 2y ago
It should be addressed, but it is not addressed.
Even though this is a serious issue that intimately, negatively affects nearly every American citizen at some point in their life, there is still not enough pressure on the government to enact a real change. Insurance companies simply have more political power than voters do.
This change will mean creditor companies have skin in the game, too, and so hopefully they will now lobby the government to fix the medical problem. It's not fair — it's not their fault that the insurance lobby is out of control — but fairness isn't working.
The way I see it, corporations are manmade tools, not human beings with innate desires and rights. Corporations cannot exist unless a society chooses to legally define incorporation, and societies only do this because corporations are very useful for advanced economies. Thus corporations ultimately exist in service to the society that creates them and grants them the means to participate in said society.
If some corporation get out of control, society should have the right to rope its other corporations into reigning the rogue corporation back in if necessary — because all corporations are ultimately tools that society creates, uses, and dissolves.