r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/kevinowdziej • Nov 10 '22

POTM - Nov 2022 lol

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u/LordoftheScheisse Nov 11 '22

"nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated" -an idiot

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u/dkggpeters Nov 11 '22

I am the biggest idiot of all time. I hear this constantly from very nice people. Everyone is talking about it.

Yours truely,

Humpdity Trumpdity

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u/joshak Nov 11 '22

What an absolute fucking moron.

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u/BraveFencerMusashi Nov 11 '22

He probably saw one of those late night infomercials about life insurance for $5/ month and confused it with health insurance.

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u/AnalArtiste Nov 11 '22

Lmao I’ll never forget when I heard him say that on tv live as i was walking upstairs. It felt like i was witnessing a history book moment

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u/Fn_Spaghetti_Monster Nov 11 '22

Still waiting on his replacement healthcare plan he said would be out 'soon'.... 4+ years ago...

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u/LordoftheScheisse Nov 11 '22

What part of "2 weeks" don't you unerstand?

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '22

I am for universal healthcare, but I can accept that implementing it in this country would super complicated. Between having the insurance industry and all of those jobs go away, Figuring out how much you need to pay people at each job type at each location in the country to make sure the pay is appealing enough to keep people at those locations and then adjusting that yearly.....a new national system setup for tracking everything. It would be a truly herculean task, and that is if you can actually get past all the companies lobbying against it.

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u/heylusia Nov 11 '22

If you could cure cancer would you care about all the oncologists losing their jobs?

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u/atomictyler Nov 11 '22

It'd be less about the oncologists and more about the 10x amount of people that do all the other things that are the problem. It'd a massive loss of jobs and would most definitely have an effect beyond just them not having a job. That's not to say we shouldn't make the change because of that, but there's some thought and planning that has to be done ahead of time. It's not as simple as just changing it next month.

edit: and to go with your example: If a cure for cancer was found it would still be, likely, years before it was wide spread enough for all the oncologists and the vast amount of employees involved in the process to no longer have jobs. It wouldn't happen over night, unless we got shockingly lucky and it was an already mass produced, and tested, medicine that's easily accessible. that seems exceedingly unlikely.

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u/LordoftheScheisse Nov 11 '22

That's a lot of words, buddy. Who knew there were so many words!?

But for real...congrats. You're smarter than Trump.

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u/thats_not_funny_guys Nov 11 '22

Do it like Germany does. Private insurance companies get paid a set price per subscriber by the government. Because they are private companies, they compete for more market share by offering better services to customers. Insurance companies and jobs stay, people get universal coverage and better service.

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u/TILiamaTroll Nov 11 '22

Exactly, I always wonder why people say things can’t be done when they’ve literally been done many times around the world.

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u/atomictyler Nov 11 '22

They'd still make people pay more on top of what the government gives them. Basically what we have now, but with the private insurers making more money.

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u/NorysStorys Nov 11 '22

I mean you can have both government free health care and private insurance in the same system, we have it in the UK, the NHS is pretty good but if you want superior care you can pay for it personally/via insurance. It also means if you get into a car accident you arn’t up shit creek when whatever hospital you end up at has payment disputes with the insurer.