[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

And you think a private business will do anything more than the minimum of a contract?

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 66 points 3 weeks ago

No fucking duh it's political, she is an a political post, you are in a political post. Not all politics is bad, some of it is about finding a way to get the government to actually help people in need

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 86 points 3 weeks ago

The insurance system does not work in the medical field, it would never work because insurance is for managing risks that are unknown, like a house flooding or your car getting hit in an intersection.

In medical "insurance" it is often dealing with known issues, and the insurance system is just not set up to deal with preventative care, annual check ups, mammograms, blood tests, or pre-existing conditions. It would be like trying to use car insurance to pay for an oil change, which is just as ridiculous as it sounds in your head.

That's exactly why the term "insurance" should be used when discussing a single payer system, it's not really insurance, it should be a collective action group that works together with the medical community to find a middle ground where hospitals can still exist and pay wages to their staff, the people can get the medical care they need without getting thrown into poverty for daring to get sick, and the government benefits from having a healthier population as a whole.

Too bad theres way too much money in the short term in keeping this all private, and having a sicker population, so we have decades of insurance company propaganda to work against, and a huge population of people that don't understand that by doing single payer health care your taxes would go up, but you also wouldn't be paying out the nose for medical insurance & medical care (because they don't cover anything). Also think of a world where your health care isn't beholden to your employment, all the different choices you'd make in your life.

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Please tell me this is reality, getting so sick of everyone here complaining about cruz, then showing up in droves to vote him in to own the libs

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

Because she's friends with tons of antivaxxers on fb or in real life and is saving face

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

Different timescale; Average income is annual, and rent is monthly

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Hannibal Lecturn*

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

If there is one universal truth for US Politics, and a majority of corporations as well, is that they all woefully underpay for IT

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

No he isn't, it's comparing the two, one is Walz (D) signing a law to bring free lunches for school children in his state, the other is sarah huckabee (R) signing a law to claw back child labor laws in her state

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Spoken like a short man :P

In all seriousness though, you should thank them for bringing it up, the sooner the better for you to realize what they think matters and if they are shallow about that, there are likely other things as well. So good for you to learn early and move on to someone who will appreciate you as you are.

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

I just refer to them as cultists, because that's what they've become. Especially once they adorned themselves with their sanctimonious ear patches to become one step closer to the visage of their one true Don

[-] voxthefox@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

I thought this said werehorses for a second and my mind went on a completely different tangent with a group of werehorses fighting off the evil of Elon.

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