Political Memes

5617 readers

1628 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civil

Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformation

Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memes

Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotion

Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

455

Just give it a different name when you do it (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by hexadence to c/politicalmemes

52 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] finitebanjo 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

No. If the insurance didn’t create the atmosphere of territorial turfing, prices would be naturally set by competition. They would be much more accessible.

Hospitals aren't very competitive. Theres maybe 1 in a large town and that's it. Small practices are already competitive. You do have a point about insurance companies intentionally driving costs up, but the hospital networks themselves have even more say and the only way to take that power away is having regulators set the prices and not the providers.

Let us not forget the amount of claims that get denied in order to guarantee financial solvency for the middleman parasites.

Average 18% denied, less than a percentage of denied claims appealed. So 82% of claims get covered.

Yeah. Let’s just support this nonsense by printing more money. /s

Actually, as I mentioned, the government would spend less than they currently do.

Direct violence is out of fashion. Now it is all about systematic financial crippling into homelessness and starvation.

Because nobody ever wins with direct violence. Everyone loses.