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[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ya the penalty was such a slap in the face. Health tax for being healthy. Helped to pay for these fat MAGAs who probably would have succumbed to diabetes by now.

[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

No, it was meant to feed the fund like safe drivers do for liability insurance. Leaving only sick/older adults in (like only bad drivers) means that pay outs for claims would have to drain the fund. But you go on thinking you'll be healthy for the rest of your life.

The social contract means something.

[–] GaryGhost@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Your ignoring how it is for profit by private insurance companies.

[–] EffortlessEffluvium@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, we should have gotten a single-payer or government-administered system that no one could have (except maybe the Amish) opted out of. That way, middle-man costs could have been accounted for and the millionaire CEOs shut out more easily. Congress sold us out to serve the UHC and other masters.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yea I pay the social security and Medicare taxes. I didn’t make a social contract with a fucking insurance company. Free Luigi.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I’ve got millions of dollars in taxes paid and I’m living in poverty with no access to medical or food resources lol. Social contract deez. They are using the constitution as toilet paper and you’re telling me about a social contract with a insurance company after paying in 20 years to the actual social contract that’s been disposed of for tax cuts on private jets. Jesus Christ man get a grip. Glazing the insurance industry for wut?