Become a Luigi. That's really what needs to happen. A Luigi every week until this shit is fixed
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You know what can fight a bad guy with a CEO position? No! Not a good guy with a CEO position. That only works in other situations.
Anyway, I hope more CEOs visit troubled schools next year. You know, to help and such. What? What were you thinking?
Americans have got to learn how to vote for their own interests.
When one candidate as actively campaigning on the basis of ripping apart a healthcare system put in place by the previous one (Trump with Affordable Care Act) and then wins, twice, it's hard to understand why they're surprised that they're in this situation.
Maybe if people weren't still going bankrupt because of medical bills despite the ACA they wouldn't be so excited to blow up the entire system.
No American presidential candidate ever represents Americans' best interests. It is not possible to vote in your best interests here.
Really? None. I suspect one or two of the literally 100s of non partisan candidates were actually there to do good? I think the point being made (and this goes for all democratic systems), is that 99% of the population could not name more than 5 names on the ballot. Let alone consider voting for them.
People vote for parties and ALL of the parties are funded by someone. Ultimately, we do it to ourselves.
They're only talking about this because of Luigi, they're scared, and billionaires only think about sharing when they're scared, Sadly they're only THINKING about it
Deregulation and privatization? For something that's already a racket that can kill to save money? Might as well start pulling a Canada and pass around the Vault-Tec Plan D's
Well, we got a group of Trumpers that are so hell bent on making sure other people's lives are worse. So they are taking us all down with them. These guys have managed to put a professional anti-vaxxer in our federal healthcare system. Then they wonder why their healthcare is shit, costs much money, and don't work good.
Indeed.
I've heard MAGA explained to me as a "Reverse Cargo Cult" of sorts.
If you're not familiar with Cargo Cults, there are isolated places all over the world with no real contact with the outside world. I understand "Isolated" and "No real contact" are saying the same thing, but I wanna drive the point home that these are places that have had no interaction with anyone but themselves.
Sometimes that's for a damn good reason as quite a few of them are outright hostile to visitors.
Anyway, a phenomenon has happened where people in these areas will see planes in the sky and believe them to be Gods. Sometimes for one reason or another these planes crash or drop their cargo. The people in these areas will then examine these and try to recreate or restore radios they find, believing they can fly or contact the Gods, if only they build these devices correctly and pray to them enough. This never happens of course because they're trying to build complicated machinery out of sticks and stones, but you get the idea.
There's actually one that believes the King of England is a God simply because they found photos of him, and actively worship them.
They don't know why their version of technology doesn't work and the ones they find from above do, but they believe that if they keep trying and praying surely it will happen one day.
Well MAGA is a Reverse Cargo Cult; They know they're taking us down with them.
Essentially, MAGA looks at the planes in the sky and says. "When we built our own it didn't work, so the ones in the air don't work either. It's some kind of illusion and we should punish them for lying to us!"
It's why they rejected Biden and Kamala for saying they've been fixing the economy, even though it's obvious from prior behavior that Trump will outright wreck it. They've given up on anything getting better, and just want to use Trump as the brick they wanna throw at the man behind the curtain pretending that planes can fly.
I don't know if I believe this explanation, but I figured I'd voice it in the hopes of creating a discourse.
You honestly think they would approve a paying customer's claim for euthanasia?
I mean, they're already chosing to let people die.
Letting someone die because they don't get care doesn't cost the insurance company anything.
Monthly fees will go up, because the security details for the CEO's won't be paid out of their own pockets. That would be ludicrous, those poor CEO's having to cut into their profits to keep themselves safe from those barbaric peasants.
It boggles my mind that any American can look at their healthcare system and look at the rest of the world and think more privatization and deregulation is the way to go.
If ANTHYING absolutely must be regulated it’s healthcare.
rising frustrations
How long do these frustrations have to rise? I remember reading about this shit over two decades ago.
When is it enough, exactly?
That's the problem, there's no such thing as "enough" to the people who already have all the power
Literally expressed in a kid's movie 20 years ago
As long as rich people give enough food and basic necessities to the poor you all will never be uncomfortable enough to fight back. That is the whole point.
Well we just voted in probably the worst person to "fix" our healthcare and who only has a "concept of a plan" regarding it. Sooo what can really happen?
If you were hoping to vote on healthcare reform, neither candidate supported a real change. Biden campaigned in 2020 on wanting to lower medicare to 60... mostly everyone supported healthcare for all from 2016-20', and they all stepped back from that quickly.
Yeah but trump is unarguably worse on healthcare than anyone else on the ballot. We're turbo fucked.
Well, I could split hairs and point at the libertarian party but I assume we're only talking about harris/trump lol. Honestly Trump's position on healthcare was probably better for his demographics than Harris's stance for her democratic constituents. She didn't appease anyone's concern besides "Trump is worse" but couldn't actually say how he would be worse since he didn't have a plan. You couldn't have gone back 4 months ago and talked about healthcare without someone distracting the conversation with fascism. It was a complete political flop that people are still blaming Trump voters for.
I could split hairs and point at the libertarian party
Are you suggesting that libertarians would have any interest in strengthening regulation and oversight of medical insurance?
They're the party of lower regulation and less enforcement.
oh lol definitely not, it was a response to "trump is unaguably worse on healthcare than anyone else on the ballot". Meaning the Libertarian healthcare platform is abysmal and I believe they were on mostly all the national ballots so he had at least some competition for being the "worse".
edit: a word
This is one of the many downsides of the current way of politics. Since apparently you can say anything without accountability, declaring a platform only creates a target. You’d be foolish to say more than you have to.
Pay or Die. That's our options.
It's really an ingenious plan from the upper echelons. How do you absorb the rest of the money people have in retirement savings or possible inheritance? Make medical so fucking expensive that you spend every last dime on it so no one else can get it. Their children go further into debt trying to help out, nothing is passed down as even properties become collateral.
I would bet money that they will make medical debt a "nondischargeable debt" with bankruptcy before we get any type of real healthcare for all.
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