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Progressive lawmakers say the reaction to the UHC CEO killing is a 'wake-up call'
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Calling for anything less than universal healthcare and the abolition of private, for-profit health insurers means they still side with them.
There isn't any quagmire, we're the only "developed nation" that chooses not to have universal healthcare coverage in some form.
We choose not to solely because there's a booming industry profiting off selling us a fake guarantee of care, a con, and then killing us instead and keeping the premiums we paid them, score, and that industry pays politicians to be against universal healthcare in practice, lip service when out of power notwithstanding.
You show me a politician against universal healthcare, and I'll show you someone who either took the money, or a coward legislating by path of least resistance.
And reminder "herp derp waitlists" Is a red herring, that isnt a function of Healthcare coverage or payment at all, that's a function of a Society's supply of Medical professionals regardless of who pays them, and that's a whole other conversation about why our society's sociopathic economy rewards self serving MBAs and Hedge Fund managers and economically punishes what society actually needs: nurses, teachers, etc.
Our economy incentivise and punish lots of things already, the owners just use their captured government to incentivise all the wrong things and punish most of the right things from the perspective of almost all of the citizenry, whether they've been successfully propagandized against their own interests or not.
"Herp derp well when it Trickles down and Im a millionaire, I'll just buy buy me a concierge medicine plan, and I don't want my future millionaire self to have to pay for poor people's Healthcare! You feel me Cletus? Pass me another beer." -Capitalist's sad, deluded victims