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[applegrove]

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[empedocles]

1. Wow

[SledDriver]

2. Amazon Piss Jugs

[applegrove]

3. I don't understand.

[Jedi Guy]

4. It's a meme.

The second image usually has a caption of "The fuck did I just read?" or similar.

[applegrove]

5. Thanks.

[Marcuse]

12. Los Angeles Fire Department?

[cate94]

6. We pay an incredibly high tax

To private corporations who do as little as they can get away with, health insurance companies are evil.

[pansypoo53219]

7. socialized medicine covid death rates way lower. ain't just cause americans are fat.

[onecaliberal]

8. People think they have great insurance until...

A catastrophic health event happens to you.
I have great insurance that I pay an arm and leg for, or so I thought. Until 5 years ago, my husband had a massive stroke. By the time he was discharged from the hospital, “out of network” charges were more than 200,000. That doesn’t even get in to the costs associated with rehabilitation.

I do not understand how people are hoodwinked into thinking this is okay.

[Tommymac]

14. TV nt

[dalton99a]

9. We have the worst, fucked up, barbaric health "care" system among civilized nations.

[rickyhall]

13. What "system"?

[monkeyman1]

10. plus , if ya question a bill , it's like ya just comitted a damn crime ??

[samplegirl]

11. K&R

[Tommymac]

15. Medicare for All sucks ...

...if one is a for profit 'death by spreadsheet' health insurance company.

Thanks to Nixon and Kaiser.

"The less care they give them the more money they make*"

In 1971, Edgar Kaiser, the son of the founder of Kaiser Permanente, one of the first big HMOs, went to see John Ehrlichman, a top aide to President Nixon, to lobby the Nixon White House to pass legislation that would expand the market for health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Ehrlichman reported this conversation to Nixon on February 17, 1971. The discussion, which was taped, went like this: Ehrlichman: I had Edgar Kaiser come in...talk to me about this and I went into it in some depth. All the incentives are toward less medical care, because the less care they give them, the more money they make. President Nixon: Fine. The next day, Nixon publicly announced he would be pushing legislation that would provide Americans "the finest health care in the world.**"

*Quoted from film
** Quoted from Discussion links on YouTube video

Clip is excerpted from Michael Moore's Sicko.

[3auld6phart]

16. Sad

That is damning.

[Uncle Joe]

17. Kicked and recommended

Thanks for the thread applegrove.

[patphil]

18. Freedom to be bankrupted by the healthcare industry!

Just one more of those precious freedoms we're dying to hold onto.

[JoeOtterbein]

19. K n R ! Thanks for posting! nt

[Beartracks]

20. Freedom from medical bankruptcy? Not in America!!