• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    Adding $660,000,000,000 to the federal deficit annually and still not making a dent in people’s healthcare costs?

    A single-payer universal healthcare system would be cheaper, as almost every other country’s systems show.

    The real trick is to get private equity and for-profit corporations out of healthcare. All they do is drive up costs while lowering outcomes.

    Healthcare should be a public service, funded by the government.

    • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, the US actually pays more PUBLIC funds per person than most other nations. Then the private cost on top - all for worse health outcomes.

      We need more Luigis just from a financial perspective.

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      4 hours ago

      UNH, CVS, ELV and CI share holders disagree with you and thanks to the SCOTUS Citizen United decision they have to money and the legal framework to legally bribe politicians. I’ll suggest to invest in those companies rather than flight them.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      as almost every other country’s systems show

      You can take out the “almost” here. Literally every other country on Earth pays half or less per capita than what we pay in the US, and this has been the case for decades.