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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by Aunche on Sunday December 29, 2024 @06:58PM (#42544799)
> the very health insurance companies that everyone hates

First of all, the vast majority of Americans like their health insurance [1]. There were talks of a public option but it would be political suicide for anyone in a swing state to support "government death panels." Indeed even the moderate ACA caused Democrats to suffer one of the worst Congressional losses in history [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/us/elections/health-insur...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_elections

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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by unethical_ban on Sunday December 29, 2024 @09:11PM (#42545730)
I simply do not trust those stats that people like their health insurance. I want to see the percentage of people who have had a catastrophic event occur who love their insurance.

A lot of people probably mean "I like having health insurance".

Yeah, we don't have government rationing or decisions based on outcome, we have publicly traded death panels.

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Re:President Jimmy Carter has passed away by arrowsmith on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:10AM (#42546661)
How many of the people who say they “like their health insurance” have actually had to make a claim?

I suspect a situation like this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/937/

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