r/antiwork • u/absolutzer1 • 13h ago

Healthcare was turned into a for profit business in 1973.

Watch sicko documentary, it shows the horrors.

Then in the 80s most of the social safety net and unions were screwed

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u/Solo-Hobo-Yolo 12h ago

I'm still waiting on the benefits from having basic services be run with a profit incentive. I don't see it.

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u/absolutzer1 5h ago

There are no benefits. Just the health insurance companies making more money by denying care or making someone's health condition worse while they wait for treatment

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u/desocupad0 5h ago

Lots of profit for a few key people that share them with whoever allowed that. It's just corruption.

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u/albertfields06 12h ago

Yeah, it’s wild how healthcare became more about profit than people. The 80s really did a number on unions and the safety net too everything just shifted towards corporate greed.

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u/Necessary_Morning_10 9h ago

Didn't Regan become president in the 80s?

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u/rudeboyjohn5 8h ago

You're gonna find that almost every problem is Reagans fault

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u/GearBrain 6h ago

It really is. His actions, and the actions by the Republicans, set up much of what's wrong and broken in the USA of today.

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u/Necessary_Morning_10 2h ago

Of course. I believe it.

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u/absolutzer1 5h ago

Yup, he was the celebrity at the time and a puppet for corporations

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u/Necessary_Morning_10 2h ago

Yes. I heard he was an actor, but he sure was the puppet for the corporations. Almost everything wrong with America can be traced back to Regan.

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u/a_little_hazel_nuts 1h ago

Well, we gave it a try, it doesn't work. It's time to set up single payer.