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That's why I always roll my eyes when you have these wealthy retired philanthropists like the Gates going on podcasts preaching about how important xyz issue is, when they don't give a damn about tax reform that can actually create a better standard of living floor for society so that there's more opportunity for people to come up with a better solution to xyz.

But charities make idiots think these rich people care.

I'm not disagreeing with the rest of your post, but the grocery store destroying the food is for liability reasons. A local grocery store would throw out expired food that they could not sell and someone dug some cooked rotiserie chicken out of the trash out back, ate it and died from complications due to food poisioning. His family sued AND WON because the grocery store was negligent in not destroying the food, which "lured" the hungry man to eat it since it was still in it's on the shelf packaging and did not say that it was spoiled.

There is nothing morally wrong with killing health insurance CEOs. In fact, it is a morally positive act.

People without insurance die, even from easily preventable things. Then it bogs down the entire health care system because this small thing festers or gets worse. The person is taken to the ED, sometimes by EMS, using up resources. Then they spend hours in the ED being treated and using up hospital resources. Some go home, some have to be admitted taking up a bed and using more hospital resources.

Then, depending on the issue they could die. I'd want to throw in other options like SNF, ALF, LTC, or Rehab facility, but that requires insurance authorization or money, something people without insurance don't have.

So no instead of using tax payer money to give people health care and get preventative treatment, we spend significantly more tax payer money on EMS and hospital resources.

The same argument, which has been tested and validated, can be said about it being cheaper to give the homeless a free small apartment.

don't know how people without insurance survive

Survive? No. Your job is to be profitable. If you're not profitable, it's in fate's hands, because the business of medicine washes its hands of your filth.

I don't understand why eating cold cuts off a rock is fancy, but eating lunchmeat out of the package is trashy.

Yeah that scene is what I remembered the most from watching it in 2004.

In most other developed democracies: No, of course it's for free, that's what you pay taxes for.

Here is the worst thing... That's if you even get into the hospital.

My wife needed to go to the ER last month. We show up, and wait a few hours. I get to talking to people, and multiple people have been in the ER waiting to be seen for 12+ hours...the hospital was so understaffed that they could not get to a person with a medical emergency in 12 hours...

This same hospital has been building shiny new, and mostly empty wings and additions for the last 10 years straight, but they can't afford to staff the medical facilities they already have? I call BS.

Meanwhile, in our third-world country, the doctor recently ordered my mother to redo all her previous medical exams from last year, including an MRI, a Holter monitor, blood work, urine, an EKG, and everything else for free. Even her heart medication is free. The quality of care is top-notch, and the doctor is very attentive. We only pay with our time spent waiting in line for the appointment that was booked months in advance, because some things are honestly a mess. It sure as hell beats whatever is going on over there.

This is not to shame nor brag, but to hopefully show that these things are possible, affordable by the government despite what Republicunts say, and are worth fighting for.

When I got in an accident and was on the ground with a broken bone, the EMT asked if I had a preference about which hospital to go to. Like I was going to check out reviews with one working arm, from the pavement.

The US is a dystopia

You also missed the "surprise, you're in collections because they never actually billed your insurance" part.

I'm fighting with collections rn because a medical device manufacturer somehow never billed my co-insurance, despite me giving them that information multiple times.

This but unironically. Luigi Magione wasn't the shooter.

I am Luigi.

Inequality is like some of the worst developing world countries

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/05/progress-by-samuel-miller-mcdonald-review-humanitys-greatest-myth

Inequality is soaring, with the 1% scooping up ever-larger shares of global wealth. These days, the US has a Gini coefficient – the most common international measurement of inequality – on a par with slave-owning Ancient Rome. Maternal mortality rates for American millennials are three times higher than those of their parents’ generation

Useful idiots have been convinced that the pill wouldn't even exist unless these scumbags could maximize profit off of it in this manner.

It's why most dumbasses think copyright and patent laws are beneficial for them, not their rulers.

Hey, news flash idiots. If copyright and patents laws benefited the working class, we'd see the ruling class fighting tooth and nail to remove them. Instead, they fight tooth and nail to protect them.

I don't expect most people reading this to agree with me, and it's another reason why I think most people are useful idiots. If you're stupid enough to believe that life saving drugs wouldn't get made if someone couldn't own the patent for it, then you are a moron going to bat for their oppressors.