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Celebrating Brian Thompson's Killing Is Ghoulish (reason.com)

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[–] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago

"However, most of my experiences with our system have been laudable, as we've usually gained high-level care in a timely manner (check out wait times in countries with national health systems)—and then just get a bill at the end for a small portion of it."

Cool. Great.

You know that pisses me off about this author? They don't seem to have taken the time to develop an opinion other than the following: nationalized healthcare in the UK is comparably corrupt.

Health insurance in the USA is universally a rent seeking middle man which lobbies to monopolize access to health care, and a largely unregulated, corporatized health care industry benefits from taking a cut of those inflated prices.

Hiv drugs? insulin? Blood test? A fucking X-ray image? These all cost pennies to produce. Yes, there are wages to consider, but don't think for a second that those can't be managed with a more equitable system.

I'll acknowledge that there are procedures, drugs, and expertise that genuinely do require lots of money. However, to pretend that that is the whole of the issue is to wear blinders so restricting that I have to wonder if the writer is a fucking idiot or just a bad person.