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Because it's not a market. I work, and thus have no choice which insurance i'd like. There's only one plan which is even remotely affordable and that's the one
by wholinator2 2y ago
Because it's not a market. I work, and thus have no choice which insurance i'd like. There's only one plan which is even remotely affordable and that's the one provided by my job. If that insurance plan decides to deny me life saving, essential medications, i can't just switch. Health insurance is a necessity, it shouldn't be a market. We can see that since everyone stopped pursuing anti trust every single industry has either or is in the process of being completely captured by some big fish, eating everyone else up and squeezing consumers to the maximal amount possible. I for one, don't think we should be basing the cost of survival on the _maximum possible the market will bear_. Inevitably that will lead to it being far above some people's means, an ever increasing number of them. I don't enjoy the look of a future which involves revolts and assassinations but what option are we giving people? When health insurance companies kill the people that matter most in your life, what do you really have to lose? When the systems stop caring about preservation of human life, why should the people care about preserving the system? Why, they might actively become hostile to it. Even if it's a system which is merely survivable for the majority of people (maximum cost the market will bear), enough disenfranchised people _will_ take their power back, even if it takes the whole thing down. And in their lives, with their experiences, they're right