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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by mrbungie on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:21AM (#42409225)
The point here is that "democratically passed legislature" is not at people's service.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by analog31 on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:29AM (#42409320)
An elected legislature is a pipe dream in a country with gerrymandering.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by SauciestGNU on Friday December 13, 2024 @09:38PM (#42414200)
Forget gerrymandering, a representative government is impossible as long as the Senate still gives the same weight to the 15 people in North Dakota as it does the 40 million in California.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by xyzzy4747 on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:24AM (#42409257)
It's the least bad system.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by OutOfHere on Friday December 13, 2024 @10:30AM (#42409342)
It's legalized corruption to the max. It's the worst implementation of the least bad system.
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Re:Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denial... by xyzzy4747 on Friday December 13, 2024 @11:10AM (#42409820)
If the U.S. is leading the world's economy with high standards of living, maybe it is only a bad implementation in some aspects but not all.
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