Oh okay. Well I wasn't talking about what politicians where pushing, more so what I hear the people asking for. I don't see how neither party endorses the system everyone else uses but I guess America just likes to be different?
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Oh okay. Well I wasn't talking about what politicians where pushing, more so what I hear the people asking for. I don't see how neither party endorses the system everyone else uses but I guess America just likes to be different?
Oh right, corporate owns America
For just ~$15 a week ($10 USD) you can all have health insurance!
I know it's more complicated than that, but you get the idea
edit: never mind just googled your healthcare budget. what the fuck?
Basically. The democrats also take extensive donations from the health insurance companies. With a handful of exceptions, any democrat that gets anywhere has to kiss the ring, and the exceptions still have to bow to the will of the party.
The whole situation is a total clusterfuck.
This obviously doesn't fully explain the cost, but this is an illuminating example: Medicare is forbidden by the government from negotiating costs of drugs with pharmaceutical companies, afaik. So if pharma says they have to pay 50x the price every other country pays, medicare bends over and says "okay daddy". The same issue applies with other industries.
haHAA
Until you guys control your corporates I guess y'all are fucked?
Oops, this was supposed to be posted in the other thread.
Why is this topic still going?
its just like C++ and COBOL. It never dies.