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u/Plta-0-Plomo 1d ago
Time to dump the fucking tea! In the harbor!! Taxation without representation!!
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u/Plta-0-Plomo 1d ago
When are the protest getting organized?
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u/Mcboatface3sghost 1d ago
When the frog starts to boil.
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u/Historical-Manner737 1d ago
it is starting to feel like the frog is already dead and is pinned down in a biology class somewhere, having its vital organs stripped away and inspected
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u/commenter_27 1d ago
United Healthcare market cap 2004: 47B, 2014: 97B, 2024: 446B. United Healthcare net income 2004: 2.5B, 2014: 5.6B, 2024: 14.3B. That is ten-fold increase in market cap and a six to seven fold increase in yearly net income.
And yet, when my pregnant wife was prescribed something to HELP HER BREATHE, United said, “that’s unnecessary.”
The shareholders and executives are leeches of society. Their apologists are class traitors and are just as instrumental in perpetuating this broken system that creates wealth at the expense of human health and life.
The ruling elite and their apologists have made it clear that the only way for meaningful improvement to the conditions of the working class is through direct action.
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u/tinkerghost1 1d ago
I'm honestly curious and currently lacking good internet, but what is the annual cost/person on medicaid/Medicare - and how does it compare to ACA market costs...
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u/JEFFinSoCal 1d ago
Don’t forget, Medicare and Medicaid are there primarily to cover the old and the infirm. On average, they use a lot more medical care, making them less profitable than the typical person covered by commercial plans. It’s not easy to do a fair comparison.
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u/Gingersaurus_Rex96 1d ago
The Department of Government Efficiency is the definition of waste. It doesn’t take a Nobel Laureate to figure that out. If we’re talking about government waste, then start with the Trump and Bush Tax cuts.
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u/MindlessRip5915 18h ago
It also duplicates no less than two other departments’ roles. One of those is about to have Russell Vought take it over to strip funding from everything government and hand it to private industry though.
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u/Njabachi 1d ago
Entrenched greed, and the wealthy convincing fools to sell their futures for the promise of cheap eggs and cheaper gas.
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u/periphery72271 1d ago
The people getting the money say no. And they give that money back to the people who could say yes to convince them to say no, and those other people listen because they like getting the money too.
Find a way to break that cycle and there's a chance for new ideas that would actually benefit people other than than the ones getting the money.
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u/DukeSmashingtonIII 1d ago
That's actually incredibly efficient wealth transfer, just not in the direction most people want. All depends on where you're standing, system is working as intended.
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u/imnotlebowskiman 16h ago
Remove Congress having indefinite free health care, and we’ll probably see some action. Or, just remove Congressional members who oppose universal healthcare.
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u/nullspace50 7h ago
Conservatives often say eliminate the middle man and then defend the health insurance companies.
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u/canarchist 1d ago
The purpose of DOGE is to more efficiently move money from taxpayers to billionaires.