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This Olympic medalist hurried to get all her healthcare needs done at the Games because it’s too costly in the US (www.reckon.news)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/health

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In the US? It's never ever going to happen. Even if we had a 100% Democrat Congress it'd never make it through. It would do three things that would individually each be political suicide:

Topple a 1.6 trillion dollar health insurance industry, including rich lobbyists
Put over 500,000 people out of work (even if some could be hired into a government-led program)
Remove the main threat employers use against their employees.

Sure, it would massively reduce costs both individually and overall, and it'd improve the overall health of the US, and it would likely be better for the economy, but I have given up any hope it'll ever happen. It's too entrenched. It would be like erasing the oil lobby or the military industrial complex.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

What if all the insurance companies were just bought by the government? Everyone keeps their jobs, all the profit goes to the taxpayer instead of shareholders, and fuck employers who use health insurance as leverage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Remove the main threat employers use against their employees.

If I was sick enough for this to matter, I would 100% give my employer ANFO Christmas presents.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What is ANFO?

[–] toynbee 3 points 3 months ago

Looking it up, this seems to be "ammonium nitrate/fuel oil," which is allegedly mainly used in mining. Not being familiar with the substance at all, this sounds like a veiled threat.