• Flying Squid
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    91 month ago

    There is a middle ground here

    There doesn’t need to be a middle ground. Most developed countries do fine with universal healthcare.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      You’re not incorrect, though his comment seems specifically targeted at home owners insurance.

      • Flying Squid
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        41 month ago

        Again, that could be government-sponsored.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          Nearly all personal insurance should fundamentally be a government function. Insurance is principally there to assist you when shit goes south. This is also effectively one of the foundational reasons humans collect into societies. But we’ve let runaway American capitalism and abstracting money to the point where it is treated like a resource in an of itself rather than the allocation algorithm it is completely pervert our understanding of how government and private enterprise respectively should interact with society.

      • Flying Squid
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        11 month ago

        As I already said, the exact same thing can apply to housing insurance.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          Yeah but that isn’t as funny as thinking about a house being sick :(

          I’m at the point where i’m just trying to make light of as much as I can.