If profits come from people being sick, there's an incentive to make people get sick.
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Nope, COVID is costing the healthcare system money. They make $$$ on expensive elective surgeries; they make much less treating COVID patients.
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And also correlation does not imply causation! Certainly access to care plays a role. But so does a complete void of leadership and a polarization of the only tool we have to help us the through this.
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Here in the UK we also have a void of leadership. We're doing badly but would be doing so much worse if people couldn't afford healthcare
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Fair point but none of those nations bans private insurance. This graph doesn’t support “Medicare for All.” It does, however, support expanding and strengthening the Affordable Care Act — not gutting it like
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Private insurance isn’t necessary for effective, efficient healthcare provision. If we’ve learned anything private insurance works as a hindrance to that objective given the primacy of profit in the operation of these schemes.pic.twitter.com/wJmoTqPYbf
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Oh, but longer wait times and lower doctor's wages and higher taxes, Andy. It's much better to just have 40 million people uninsured.
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Here's the thing though, there aren't longer wait times, drs earn a very good wage, and instead of paying for inadequate coverage each month you pay a bit more in tax so everyone is covered.
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