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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by Domenic_S on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:52PM (#22006752)
> the premium stops going into the pockets of insurance middlemen.

This just replaces one middleman (insurance co) for another (government).

I can tell by the downvotes that my point whooshed over everyone's head -- my point was essentially yours. Changing who pays isn't going to change anything. We have to change what gets charged.

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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by ceejayoz on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:26PM (#22008087)
> We have to change what gets charged.

This is substantially easier to do in a single-payer style system.

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