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0 pointsAunche1y ago0 comments

> the very health insurance companies that everyone hates

First of all, the vast majority of Americans like their health insurance [1]. There were talks of a public option but it would be political suicide for anyone in a swing state to support "government death panels." Indeed even the moderate ACA caused Democrats to suffer one of the worst Congressional losses in history [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/us/elections/health-insur...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_elections

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unethical_ban1y ago

I simply do not trust those stats that people like their health insurance. I want to see the percentage of people who have had a catastrophic event occur who love their insurance.

A lot of people probably mean "I like having health insurance".

Yeah, we don't have government rationing or decisions based on outcome, we have publicly traded death panels.

arrowsmith1y ago

How many of the people who say they “like their health insurance” have actually had to make a claim?

I suspect a situation like this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/937/

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