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The reason the US doesn't have nationalized healthcare: 1. Wage freezes during WW2, allowed businesses to add healthcare as a non-cash comp increase 2. Truman tried to nationalize the healthcare system after the war, labor unions and doctors (AMA) did not want it. So lobbied the Democratic admin / Congress to nix it. 3. Healthcare tied to work became further entrenched, led to the rise of a massive healthcare insurance industry 4. When Obama had supermajority in Congress (filibuster proof!), Democrats let insurance companies and AMA weaken the law. There was nothing Republicans could do to stop the law from being passed. Just special interests. 5. Further, Republican Congress under Trump did not repeal Obamacare despite claiming to want to (because many Republican congresspeople are from high healthcare use districts). And conservative majority Supreme Court upheld the law! https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/7871.pdf
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@hyper
6 we aren’t commies and consequently account for almost all medical innovation
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4a. mother fucking joe lieberman 😤
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I posted this in /cryptoleft yesterday. Pretty self explanatory. Healthcare is a right, not a privilege. The USA is the only wealthy nation that doesn't have universal healthcare....
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it's absolutely wild to list number 5 considering only three republicans stood between repealing Obamacare and somehow that's painted as a positive? They certainly tried their hardest as a party to repeal Obamacare
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Because it’s a business. Full stop.
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@benersing
Live this every day. So challenging
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In the USA _we_ pay for universal healthcare whether acknowledging it or not... each state has a mandate to not deny services for emergency care... and every Department of Health also funds nonprofits to fill social determinants of health gaps [some states obv do this better than others]
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Meanwhile countries like Brazil have world class public healthcare, and still force employers to pay for it as a non-cash comp increase, offloading stress from the system and ensuring everyone is covered, not just the full-time workers. US systems, all of them, not just healthcare, are always designed to ensure capitalists have a way to fuck over anyone they don’t like. It’s not innovative, or justifiable, it’s just stupid. I’m not saying the only system that could ever work is single payer, nor health savings account, not employer/union benefit, but the US’s system pulls from all the worst baskets and then tries to claim all the innovation is because of it. Yes technologists will choose the place where they can earn the most money to park their patents, but in a sense of such amoral garbage countries, they would still do the work of innovating in the space. The US doesn’t get to claim the innovation, only the greed that undermines its value.
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How's that working out?
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On point 5: McCain's thumbs down vote in the Senate was huge. He was one of the few R's to resist Trump's pressure and bullying (likely because that asshole mocked him for being a PoW), and did not like the way they were trying to carelessly rush the bill through Congress, which was his primary critique of the ACA.
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lame cuz we implemented it into the countries we defeated in ww2 along with principles of FDR's second bill of economic rights but HERE, special interest groups aka GOBLIN-PEOPLE horde all money and use legal loopholes and straight up bribery i mean lobbying to retain their cancerous hold on the americans' wellbeing
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We spend more per person on health care than other countries. Instead of spamming my feed you could replace your entire word salad with “corruption”
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I lived on 3 continents (Africa being one of them), and now living in USA I can attest - worst healthcare system ever
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World War III is happening because of FC
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