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drake_koefoed (drake_koefoed@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 18-Apr-2024 02:48:27 JST 
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@PopulistRight @sickburnbro the "races" are going to get blended. and it will probably be better when we don't have unreasoning hate. -
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drake_koefoed (drake_koefoed@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 22:04:22 JST
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@Escoffier @PopulistRight @sickburnbro @CrustyB that's why it cannot be private.
"Health insurance is just purposefully inserting a middle man into the process with all the usual outcomes. Higher prices mostly."
a public funding system is not a middle man. it's just us, building up a kitty big enough to take care of us.
insurers spend a lot of money denying coverage. a system of and for us would not deny coverage, and that's often cheaper than denying it, so there is a lot to save -
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drake_koefoed (drake_koefoed@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 22:04:21 JST
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@PopulistRight @Escoffier @sickburnbro @CrustyB "The ONLY reason a corporation is needed, is to raise RISK CAPITAL. Medical has a guaranteed-market, due to the human condition, so this is a STUPID system to use for that function. "
there is nothing that can raise capital like a sovereign currency issuer. and it can even invest 10 in something that turns out to be worth 9, and just go right on. you needed a new hospital, you built it.
since essentially everything is a need in one way or another, the things that are natural monopolies should be run by people who just get a reasonable salary, and anything that pays pays the people. -
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drake_koefoed (drake_koefoed@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 01:24:28 JST
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@PopulistRight @sickburnbro @CrustyB @Escoffier i'm not sure how well the older system worked. better than today for sure. health care cost has gone up, the service has declined.
no doubt wall street is the problem. the more competition, the more cost associated with that. so if the people in charge just want money, they do whatever it takes to win, no matter how evil.
we also had a lot more general prosperity. like carpenters used to be able to buy a house. sub dividers used the crews for their first market. when the sites got too far away you could sell and move.
my dad, on one income, bought a house in redwood city ca in the 60s. he was a traveling salesman for an aluminum extrusion company. years later with us long gone, that house sold for $3M. nobody was buying it with any one income where you worked for what you got. the financialization of the economy, diverting the wealth to the non working wall street parasites -
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drake_koefoed (drake_koefoed@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 22:34:50 JST
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@PopulistRight @sickburnbro @CrustyB @Escoffier what we really need is one non profit healthcare company that covers everyone.
obama, of course, was the bank president, hence the bailout for the banks for their own greed and stupidity.
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