just_another_personTrump Medicare pick Dr. Oz says uninsured ‘don’t have right to health’ in resurfaced clip
If everyone just said fuck it and stopped paying their insurance, it would crash not just those companies, but domino into taking out the entire stock market.
Like, these companies are worth so much, and they invest in others and people invest in them. If their entire revenue stream is stopped at once that’s it.
Which makes it kind of a nuclear option, one I’ve intentionally not mentioned and haven’t seen anyone else either.
But the day may be coming
Boomer Humor DoomergodWhich is exactly why we’ll never have single payer: It would crash the economy and put millions out of work.
I always figured a great deal of those people would move to government work. They already have the expertise.
The problem is that there are large parts of those companies that are replicated multiple times that would be made redundant.
Each company has an IT department, legal department, marketing department, and claims department, among a lot else. Most of those would be redundant or unnecessary in a single payer system.
Part of the reason single payer is more cost effective is eliminating administrative overhead. And “administrative overhead “ is code for jobs.
Any job that gets between a patient and the care they need is a job that needs to die.
And what will you do with all these unemployed people?
RhaedasCheckmate, guys. We can't endanger some jobs in order to help everyone. Sorry. Guess we'll just keep doing this failure of a system that keeps a few rich from the rest of us struggling.
No answer huh? I’ll send a million beggars to your doorstep. Jesus Christ you people are children. Can we actually talk about how this works?!
Nope. Obviously, pointing out the reality of the situation and asking to discuss possible ways to overcome the very real and very difficult barriers the capitalists have erected means you actually secretly agree that those barriers should be in place and therefore think we should do nothing instead.
I say this as a lefty AuDHDer: the amount of neurodivergent black-white thinking in leftist communities is extremely concerning. Kind of comes with the territory, probably, given that authoritarians want us dead, but it can create some serious infighting. It should not be controversial to acknowledge the fact that in our current climate, single payer is almost impossible thanks to the opposition from the capitalists.
Do not question comrade! That’s the liberal social media vibe. You have to carefully couch your statements or get burned down for asking.