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   Mandu 🥟 (yurnidiot@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 16:10:24 JST Mandu 🥟

   How Insurance Works

   (reposting because I can't find the original post.)

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     Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 16:10:23 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     @yurnidiot After the health insurance supported a member of my family for a full year with continued income payment during treatment of cancer, I strongly disagree with the content of this strip.

     Insurance often actually works.

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     SofaKingHigh (buthowhighishigh@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 17:03:24 JST SofaKingHigh

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     • Arne Babenhauserheide

     @ArneBab @yurnidiot after health insurance cut off my mom from physical therapy after a car crash that destroyed her knee and took an eye when she ran out of pt visits made me hate them with a few burning passion

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     Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 17:03:24 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     • SofaKingHigh

     @Buthowhighishigh sounds like you need better regulation for insurances.

     The prime reason for crushing debt in the US are health problems, and insurance can solve that problem — but only if it’s well regulated.
     @yurnidiot

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     Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 04:52:41 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     • SofaKingHigh
     • Gilbert Pilz

     @gpilz Look at the history of the wealth and income inequality in the US and you’ll see why this is that bad now.

     And you may be interested in the article:

     https://www.draketo.de/licht/politik/zu-grosse-vermoegensungleichheit-zerstoert-jede-demokratie

     (German, no official translation — sorry for that — but the google translate version is readable: https://www-draketo-de.translate.goog/licht/politik/zu-grosse-vermoegensungleichheit-zerstoert-jede-demokratie?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de )

     @Buthowhighishigh @yurnidiot

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     Gilbert Pilz (gpilz@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 04:52:42 JST Gilbert Pilz

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     • SofaKingHigh

     @ArneBab @Buthowhighishigh @yurnidiot The key to almost every problem in the U.S. is that our political system is completely corrupt. Health insurance will not be well regulated because the health insurance companies contribute enormous amounts of money to the election campaigns of all two (count them) of our political parties. Whomever is elected owes the health insurance companies for their position and depends upon them to get re-elected.

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     Gilbert Pilz (gpilz@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 04:52:42 JST Gilbert Pilz

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     • SofaKingHigh

     @ArneBab @Buthowhighishigh @yurnidiot This is also why we are so dependent on fossil fuels, why our food is full of weird crap, why our transportation system is pathetic, and why we allow our children to be periodically slaughtered en masse. Every problem in the U.S. is caused by some well-entrenched group or industry that is making billions of dollars from things being exactly the way they are and buying politicians to keep them that way.

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     Arne Babenhauserheide (arnebab@rollenspiel.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 05:00:34 JST Arne Babenhauserheide

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     • Gilbert Pilz

     @gpilz … and maybe the more general (in English):

     https://www.draketo.de/politik/market-fallacies#political-dangers

     “political dangers of markets for democracy”

     @Buthowhighishigh @yurnidiot