The most expensive plan on my state's marketplace. Honestly, I'm going to have to start selling myself, or my body parts, to be able to afford this shit.
but instead of federal buildings its going to be health insurance companies.
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lol you guys have to pay a deductible on your health insurance?!? Dude why would anybody want this system?!
Most people hate the healthcare insurance industry (see almost universal support for Luigi allegedly shooting that CEO), but there is a multi-billion dollar propaganda industry to convince people that any change would only make it worse.
Also of course those who make money off of this scam are quite happy with things as they are, which includes many if not most politicians. This year so far, according to opensecrets, there has been $130 million spent on ~~bribes~~ lobbying by the insurance industry. Add on to that that a majority of congress are millionaires, and are presumably invested in things like insurance companies.
You guys are gonna need a lot more Luigi’s.
Unlimited Mario brothers on the Amerikkkan empire.
No point in mowing the lawn by cutting grass one by one.
I keep repeating this, but I'm constantly amazed there hasn't been a single copy cat.
The reason that Americans support this health insurance system is that they want to hurt other Americans. Americans believe that hurting the people they perceive to be below themselves will result in better material outcomes for themselves. Historically, look at Reaganism and Southern Strategy.
The average American thinks that allowing people to die from preventable or treatable illness will keep their grocery bills down. It is a death cult.
Know a nurse that worked in a medicaid/Medicare clinic. Basically place where people either low income, kids covered or no insurance and would be complaining about how they would come in for anything just to get say Tylenol or for easily preventable things but couldn't understand why they would go to the only place it'd be covered so they could actually afford it. Then again could be that it was mostly black people going in so just a way to be judgmental without being obviously racist
Most of the price-volatile groceries are name-branded stuff, highly processed, and/or animal products. So this doesn't even scratch the surface of the illness and suffering inflicted on animals.