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    1698 days ago

    What if, instead of having private health insurance, we pool all those premiums into one big community fund and whenever anyone needs medical treatments, it is paid using this pool of money?

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    Oh wait…

    • Rhaedas
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      818 days ago

      The amazing thing is that the more participants you get paying into a single system, the less the cost for each is while covering everyone for anything. And yet some people are against this idea, who aren’t even the ones getting rich from the current system.

      • snooggums
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        668 days ago

        They don’t want the ‘wrong’ people to benefit.

        • Dhs92
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          338 days ago

          They’re also afraid of it becoming slow, as if it isn’t already. They buy into the propaganda that you have to wait 3 years to get seen for a cold.

    • @whygohomie
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      8 days ago

      Almost like if there was was one giant super doctor company that was required by law to provide medical treatment for everyone and it could leverage economies scale and its market power to negotiate better prices and wellness outcomes.

        • @NocturnalMorning
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          148 days ago

          I don’t agree with socialism, even if it makes my life better… no, especially if it makes someone else’s life better. That’s cOmMuNisM.

      • Shawdow194
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        18 days ago

        That’s why we need a public option so bad… it just makes everyone else play fairer