• Serinus@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 days ago

    Sure is a good thing we don’t currently count healthcare costs as taxes, or that’d look a lot different. Did you know most employers spend more on your healthcare than you do?

    Whatever you call it, it would be nice to have more take home pay.

    • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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      10 days ago

      How about reforming healthcare so it’s both private and reasonably priced?

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        8 days ago

        Because healthcare is not a kind of “market”, it doesn’t lend itself well to the ideals of capitalism. You aren’t going to go shopping around for hospitals while you are bleeding out in the back of an ambulance.

        The congressional budget office even agrees that Medicare for all will save the government money, because it will eliminate the bureaucracy put in place to fleece money out of patients.