A Gallup poll released this week but conducted before the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, found that most Americans, 62%, think it is the responsibility of the federal government to make sure that all Americans have health care coverage. A minority, 36%, said it’s not the government’s responsibility.
Two reasons:
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Money
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A lack of dead CEOs.
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because half the voting population doesnt bother voting at all, for starters. a huge number of those that do vote are under the influence of severe money-driven propaganda telling them that ‘thats socialsim, and thats evil. literally hitler’
It’s called regulatory capture. The medical insurance companies own the medical insurance regulatory agencies. Fundamentally, it’s corruption.
dolla dolla bill.
It’s worse than you think. We’ve been trying. The first Democratic administration to push for universal healthcare was Truman.
Because keeping it broken is extremely profitable.
The citizens always have, but they have limited power.
The US has been an oligarchy for far longer than many people will admit.
Because the people who are profiting from it spend part of that money to protect their interest.
Because the media, often called the 4th estate here is long dead. For the better part of the last century it’s increasingly been a corpse reanimated by the ownership class. And now the remaining rotted flesh is being scrapped and stretched over constructs of silicon and steel.
There’s constantly little trickles leaking out. Showing that Americans aren’t that divided. That we agree far more than we disagree. But that doesn’t sell your attention span. Fascist media is always ready with someone powerless minority group to blame for our problems. Liberal media always there to tell us to be outraged and march against it. Pitting us against each other. Just so what recently happened doesn’t happen. Where we can look at each other and collectively identify the oligarchs as the problem.
I’ll add this: There are millions of Americans employed in the insurance and medical fields who are afraid they won’t have a job under universal health care.
Upton Sinclair — ‘It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.’
It’s less than 1% of the nation. And frankly, fuck them. If we add a point to unemployment by helping out the rest of America, so be it.
Because the average person doesn’t understand insurance and believes all the lies the GoP is throwing at them about universal healthcare.
My favorite like is from people who say “I like my insurance.” Oh. Really? Have you seen a specialist for anything recently? Then no. You haven’t used your insurance.
The nature of the problem intrinsically supports divide and conquer.
It’s not a problem for you until it is, and once it is you have bigger problems
Because it’s working as intended. Shareholders are making bank. That’s all that matters in the USA.
Because the health insurance industry is operating exactly as designed.
Our last update was almost 15 years ago, and the country has spent those years arguing if those were worth keeping. We almost rolled them all back during the last time Trump was in office.
