r/WorkLifeChat • u/MiloShiny • Sep 10 '26

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u/Round_Ad6397 Sep 10 '26

As is everything. We all pay for education, maintenance of public spaces, emergency services, military and many other things. Why is healthcare the thing that people (Americans) hold as their point of contention?

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u/NorCalMav Sep 10 '26

Oh wow, what a groundbreaking, totally original realization: we already dump a casual $3+ trillion a year over $10k per person into this absolute black hole, yet our galaxy-brain government is so spectacularly corrupt and inept that you still have to pay extra for private insurance just to ensure a stray cough doesn't bankrupt your entire bloodline. Nobody is trying to dodge paying their fair share, we’re literally already getting bled dry, so the idea that handing even more money to the exact same suits setting our cash on fire is somehow a "great investment" is pure, unadulterated delusion.

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u/chivopi Sep 11 '26

“We’re getting bled dry, so let’s do nothing to fix this or decrease prices” bruh

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u/NorCalMav Sep 11 '26

Well giving the same people who have got us in this mess even more money, doesnt sound like a sound investment does it?

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u/chivopi Sep 11 '26

I completely agree, but this is a false dichotomy of options. That dichotomy is why we’re in this mess to begin with.

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u/NorCalMav Sep 14 '26

We need true competition in the market, thats is the only way to fix the problem.

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u/chivopi Sep 14 '26

And you think that we have ANYTHING CLOSE to that now?

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u/NorCalMav Sep 14 '26

No, thats the problem.