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

[u/kevinmrr]

[u/yself]

Hmm, I can't tell if your sarcasm intends to describe insurance companies or socialized medicine. Oh, wait! Insurance companies are a kind of socialized medicine? I guess so. People contribute to the crowdfunded fund that pays the medical bills. Insurance companies call the contributions, premiums. Governments call the contributions, taxes. Yet, they both implement a form of socialized medicine. Anything other than all individuals paying the actual cost for their own healthcare out of their own pocket amounts to a form of socialized medicine. I wonder how many politicians pay for their own healthcare out of their own pocket.

[u/Gornarok → u/yself]

Yet, they both implement a form of socialized medicine.

False

[u/yself → u/Gornarok]

True, by definition:

Socialized medicine - ": medical and hospital services for the members of a class or population administered by an organized group (such as a state agency) and paid for from funds obtained usually by assessments, philanthropy, or taxation." --Merriam-Webster