Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ...
by tokioyoyo on Sunday December 08, 2024 @07:21PM
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I'm not saying it's better! I'm saying it's not that far worse off that it would start an introspective for people to question the current state of affairs. Most people get a decent amount of care, despite all the negative side effects (debt, premiums, uncovered areas due to lack of private hospitals and etc.).
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Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ...
by OnlineGladiator on Sunday December 08, 2024 @07:55PM
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A healthcare CEO was just murdered and the killer is considered a hero. Many are even referring to the dead CEO as a serial killer because of all the preventable deaths he profited from. You're not paying attention if you think people aren't already introspective about healthcare in this country.
Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ...
by xboxnolifes on Sunday December 08, 2024 @10:44PM
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The killing could have happened to nearly any CEO and the response would be similar. The issue is of wealth inequality, not strictly healthcare, though it certainly exacerbated the response in this particular case. See the social media response to titan submersible deaths.
Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ...
by tokioyoyo on Monday December 09, 2024 @12:50AM
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People say a lot of things, but given there's no action, it's just... words. It's weird for me to say this, as I consider myself a general optimist. But when it comes to navigating layered political structures that involves trillions of dollars, it's hard to believe that anything of significance will be done.
Re:Taxpayers spend 22% more per patient to support Medicare ...
by int_19h on Monday December 09, 2024 @01:27PM
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The assassination itself is one hell of an action, though.
Also, police has already said that they are concerned about the lack of cooperation from the public at large when it comes to success of the manhunt. The people who usually jump onto that kind of stuff are explicitly disengaging.
You can argue that this all does nothing wrt navigating the politics that would actually lead to change. But I think that, at the minimum, it creates some incentive for the people who work with those structures on a day to day basis to do so. If CEOs of healthcare companies are now a socially approved assassination target, apparently, what does it say about healthcare lobbyists?