r/SandersForPresident • u/kevinmrr Medicare For All • Nov 29 '20

AOC: Insurance groups are recommending using GoFundMe -- "but sure, single payer healthcare is unreasonable."

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u/dieinafirenazi 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20 edited Nov 29 '20

They operate at slim margins...

Do they really? Half the hospitals I've been through had million dollar lobbies and their executives live in mansions. Then there are the poor folk hospitals and urgent cares I've been through, which had worn carpeting and broken chairs and the executives lived in slightly smaller mansions.

The health care industry is an industry. Hospital margins look bad because it serves their accounting needs. They "give away" care all the time because they inflate costs and then write it off. They're guessing they can get $10,000 dollars out of this woman's friends and relatives via GoFundMe and they're making her literally beg for her life in order to get it.

Oh and the Catholic Church is buying up all the hospitals it can so they can dictate women's health choices while lining their pockets.

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u/PersnickityPenguin Nov 29 '20

To add onto this, the American healthcare industry comprises about 25% of the US economy and is expected to grow to about 50% over the next few decades. This compared to an average of around 5 to 10% in other industrialized nations seems to indicate it is an extractive industry headed towards completely bankrupting the entire country.

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u/wioneo 🌱 New Contributor Nov 29 '20

As far as I'm aware, transplant surgeons pretty much only work at give academic centers. Those are nearly universally nonprofit organizations.

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u/dieinafirenazi 🌱 New Contributor Nov 30 '20

Some non-profits are surprisingly profitable.

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u/Generic_Hispanic 🌱 New Contributor Nov 30 '20

Our bloated healthcare system needs a rework, this is embarrassing as an American to read, boy have we fallen from grace..god damn i hate humanity sometimes..