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TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive” (medium.com)

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And this is why you don’t get universal healthcare. The fact is capitalism thinks you’re too expensive to keep alive. If you’re not putting in more than you’re taking out, at all times, you’re a loss. You are not worth anything except your productivity and what you can provide to your overlords. Put in a lifetime of hard work, have the audacity to live in a human body that ages and slows down, well sucks to suck, healthcare is only to be paid into not to be given to those in need.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

We have capitalism and public health care im the EU.

If you stop using "le capitalism bad" more people will lisent to you.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Couldn't be more wrong.
We have public health DESPITE capitalism.
Capitalism didn't produce them, they were fought for and earned with sweat and blood by the people, same as workers rights.
And slowly but surely capitalism is breaking them down and eroding them.
Slowly but surely we are creeping towards the same situations in EU.
All thanks to your precious capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

We have capitalism and public health care im the EU.

The EU has socialist / non-capitalist parties that have fought tooth and nail for socialized medicine and labor protections. The US doesn't have non-capitalist parties to fight for the working class.

So in other words, the US only has capitalism and our government only represents the interests of capital (our government doesn't do anything unless capitalists are allowed to get their hands in it to funnel public funds into private pockets)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You can listen, or more people can get the Luigi treatment. I mean, it’s your choice, I’m good either way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

except it IS BAD and it IS the problem here. how do you not see that?