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> the very health insurance companies that everyone hates First of all, the vast majority of Americans like their health insurance [1]. There were talks of a p
by Aunche 2y ago
> the very health insurance companies that everyone hates
First of all, the vast majority of Americans like their health insurance [1]. There were talks of a public option but it would be political suicide for anyone in a swing state to support "government death panels." Indeed even the moderate ACA caused Democrats to suffer one of the worst Congressional losses in history [2].
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/us/elections/health-insurance-polls.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/us/elections/health-insur...
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_elections https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_elections
- unethical_ban 2y agoI simply do not trust those stats that people like their health insurance. I want to see the percentage of people who have had a catastrophic event occur who love their insurance. A lot of people probably mean "I like having health insurance". Yeah, we don't have government rationing or decisions based on outcome, we have publicly traded death panels.
- arrowsmith 2y agoHow many of the people who say they “like their health insurance” have actually had to make a claim? I suspect a situation like this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/937/ https://xkcd.com/937/