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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...
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.
They don't want the 'wrong' people to benefit.
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.
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.
Hey, hey, hey. That sounds an awful lot like socialism to me.
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.
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Idk why you would not want to work less, in better conditions and get paid more, because that's how it is for the average worker
Because... what if it benefits someone else? The horror!gasp
That's why we need a public option so bad... it just makes everyone else play fairer