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Well, there's two forces at work: 1. Capitalism never sleeps. 2. Current healthcare employs thousands of people who would be out of work in a medicare for all
by cyanydeez 1y ago
Well, there's two forces at work:
1. Capitalism never sleeps.
2. Current healthcare employs thousands of people who would be out of work in a medicare for all system.
While #1 is a horrid excuse, #2 is what controls the real world.
- kingkawn 1y agothey’ll adjust
- slipperydippery 1y agoOur GDP would take a really bad hit if we stopped wasting 10+% of it overpaying for healthcare (a white-collar make-work jobs program—like, god, couldn't we just start up the CCC again? At least they built nice stuff that we're still enjoying... imagine what they could do with 10% or more of GDP!) I suspect this, plus other ways the US reports sheer waste as GDP to a much higher degree than most peer states, is the main reason folks report the US feeling a lot poorer than second-tier EU countries that on-paper have far lower GDP/capita, even with PPP adjustments. But the fake-healthcare-GDP is probably the single biggest culprit, being absolutely enormous.
- wqaatwt 1y ago> folks report the US feeling a lot poorer than second-tier EU countries How can they even tell that? Maybe people living in either place just have very different expectations.
- ProjectArcturis 1y agoThe powers that be don't care at all about thousands of insurance adjusters losing their jobs. But they care very deeply about vaporizing hundreds of billions in shareholder equity.
- cyanydeez 1y agoIts democracu and small business self interesrlt. You dont need a bogeyman to see how the system remains the same.