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Originally Posted by Diode
except that's not how it works. your deadbeat non-insurance holding ass goes to the hospital and gets treatment as is legally and ethically required (you have actually done this w/o insurance and stiffed the hospital, please don't make me dig that story up).
guess who pays for it?
the taxpayers and the people who ponied up for insurance. their rates keep going up as more people abuse the system. eventually, insurance is no longer viable for most people and the industry collapses.
now no healthcare for anyone but the rich?
cool.
or, you know, we could have a single payer system LIKE THE REST OF THE FREE FUCKING WORLD and we all pay into it so that people like you get coverage because the right thing to do is support your fellow human beings and not wish death upon them if they can't afford to pay (while also not fucking ourselves in the asses by letting insurance companies use it as an excuse to keep jacking up rates).
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you should be a politician. this real shit, tho.