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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by LarryDarrell on Friday May 03, 2019 @01:47PM (#19820563)
It is corporate welfare, I remember lots of libertarian arguments to that very point. But to solve health care in the US you would eventually have to start questioning the for-profit underpinnings of the whole enterprise. That was far too much to expect from the generally pro-market Democrats in office at the time.

Even after Bernie Sanders, the "Very Serious Democrats" talk more of protecting the Health Insurance Industry than anything else. Best case, we'll see a timid proposal of a expensive Medicare Buy-In added to the ACA exchange that will never get past the Senate.

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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by apocalypstyx on Friday May 03, 2019 @02:06PM (#19820755)
As I once heard it put: the US doesn't have a left and a right party, it has two parties to the left and right of capital.
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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by mieseratte on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:13PM (#19821355)
I heard it once said that America is a one-party system, but in typical American excess we have two.

Both in service of capital.

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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by sanderjd on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:22PM (#19821431)
I used to dabble in enjoying quips like this. They're simple and fun and sound insightful and knowing. But when I look around me I see no truth to them. We have two parties with very distinct philosophies making very different arguments for how the future of our culture and economy should function. "Capital" influences both of them, in different, sometimes overlapping, ways. But they have many differences across many axes.
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Re:Employees Start to Feel the Squeeze of High-Deductible He... by mrosett on Friday May 03, 2019 @03:39PM (#19821569)
The "above it all" smugness of quips like that is tiresome.
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