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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago

Both are horrible to ever exist!

And for the same reason - it can never be a free market is demand and supply aren't both free.
Wanting healthcare when in need isn't really that much of a free choice (demand).
That means on supply side where everyone is motivated by profit you don't need any sort of collusion for everyone to consistently pump up healthcare costs & healthcare insurance premiums, there just isn't any downside.
Direct market competition is financially pointless so all you ever see is mergers.

Oh - and comprehensive national healthcare has insurance built in naturally & efficiently bcs countries have millions of people that pay for healthcare (and no profit is privatised, even better, participants aren't driven by profit).

In recent decades in Europe we underfunded national healthcare providers & are now slowly privatising it - costs are soaring (nothing compared to USA, but we know what's happening, yet we don't vote for it/representatives don't act on it).