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Re:Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO... by consumer451 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:45PM (#42334712)
Remember how death panels were evil, but a bottomless layer cake of corporate bureaucracies making those same decisions, with added profit margins at each layer, was somehow perfectly fine?

I am not trying to get political, or be flippant, I just truly marvel at how easily we are programmed. I mean all of us, myself included.

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Re:Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO... by cratermoon on Thursday December 05, 2024 @08:02PM (#42334836)
Death Panels: Big Gubmint deciding who lives and dies

Private Health Insurers: Free Market!

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Re:Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO... by consumer451 on Thursday December 05, 2024 @08:15PM (#42334933)
Having grown up thinking that I was libertarian, the US healthcare system really killed that entire panacea for me.

It came down to this simple realization:

In a somewhat socialized healthcare system,[0] every dollar not spent to benefit the patient is called waste, and we work to reduce it.

In a for-profit healthcare system, every dollar not spent on the patient is considered shareholder value, and we work to increase it.

My hardcore libertarianism ideals died right there, at that realization.

[0] Let's keep it local and say that's medicare/medicade.

[0.1] Sorry, I did get political.

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