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Everything in healthcare is a "small component" if you squint or ask those benefitting but this death by a thousand cuts adds up to a hair under 1/5th of the US
by potato3732842 1y ago
Everything in healthcare is a "small component" if you squint or ask those benefitting but this death by a thousand cuts adds up to a hair under 1/5th of the US GDP. Go single payer or deregulate the living crap out of it, I don't care. I just want this leech of my back.
- coredog64 1y agoSingle payer doesn't do anything though. Doctors and nurses have significantly better social standing than politicians, so when push comes to shove, the politicians won't be able to make the required structural changes that reduce the labor components of healthcare costs.
- voxl 1y agoSingle payer absolutely does something it's insane you would suggest otherwise. It's a basic counting argument: if 60 out of 100 are paying into the system but we have to pay ER fees for the other 40 not paying, then there is an undo burden on the original 60. If everyone is paying then the burden is shared. Let's not even imagine the utopia of a progressive healthcare tax! The shame of a "self-made business man" losing 5% more of their income earned over 200k!