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america is literally the only developed country without universal healthcare. and guess what? in countries where healthcare the workers are still paid so its not even like its forced labor. I’m pretty sure the UN considers access to safe water a human right and requires specialized labor to build and maintain purification systems.   You can hide behind being “pro workers rights” all you want but you clearly just lack empathy for humanity

This. Her singing about being one of the last white women with good intentions really fell short. 

i find it mind blowing that lana had her wedding dress picked out in august when she played paris, reading and leeds, and we didn’t know that she even had a boyfriend, let alone a fiancé, until reading!! lana always has something secret going on i swear 

Just realized we never got high quality pictures of her in her wedding dress

Finally a picture of the dress 
(stolen from LB’s bluesky account)

Let me add to that: the government functions as security for massive companies and they are essentially the ones who run the country. These companies lobby government (pay them/sponsor their campaigns/keep them relevant) and the government reps themselves invest in these companies. The companies ARE the government; it is one big scam! They are not even trying to fake it nowadays with Elon Musk showing up at Trump rallies, lmao. That's why the government revels in keeping society divisive. If people are too busy fighting each other over trivial (to government), non-$ topics -- abortion, trans rights, for instance -- then they have society focusing on that while the government continuously fucks them up through other channels. 
 
Do you really think Donald Trump gives a fuck about trans people using restrooms, immigrants working or people getting an abortion? LMAO, no. It's a topic that gets him votes from right-wing people and keeps him and his buddies living their privileged lives. The same applies to Democrats, not just Trump and Republicans. 

Tell me, what exactly works in terms of US healthcare these days? I’m genuinely curious what you think. 
 
“The amount working-age Americans spent on health insurance through the payroll deductions has jumped nearly three times faster than wages over the past two dozen years.“
 
Is it the millions uninsured? That Americans spend more than double other first world countries for healthcare (without the benefit of having better services/access)? Rampant denials of claims? The fact that it was considered a “policy win” for pre-existing conditions to finally be covered by the insurance industry in *2014*? Wages not keeping up with cost of care? Medical bills accounting for HALF of all personal debt or the fact that medical bills are the leading cause of individual bankruptcy? Which part of this works?
 
The biggest issue we have ^^ which is touched on by LL ^^ is that the government (Reps / Dems alike) is bankrolled by healthcare and pharmaceutical companies in order to prevent single payer healthcare from being enacted in the first place. Like… healthcare lobbyists. For-profit healthcare companies. These monsters who earn money off of people’s suffering.
 
It’s not happening because the rich don’t want it to happen. Not anything near the assumption that it *cant* happen. It will absolutely work, that’s why it’s not happening lol

okay great, so you understand that concept. so why not scale that same thing? tax the ultra rich, partition people's income taxes to healthcare, and there's the fix. stop sending billions to our military budget that ends up going overseas to other countries each year, for example, israel.
also, you mentioned how wait times would increase. you ever tried getting a kidney or liver transplant in the US? guess what! wait times are already a thing as it is!!! ever tried getting an appointment with a doctor/dentist/etc? there's already wait times.... lol just because hobos or people who can't afford healthcare would now have access to it doesn't mean you won't ever get seen by a doctor. in fact, it might incentivize more doctors to move to your area so you'll now have better access. your entire argument makes you sound class driven. i truly hope some day you grow up and understand your ways of thinking is... gross and illogical.
 
sure! in fact, i'll give you 3.
Economic Effects of Five Illustrative Single-Payer Health Care Systems: Working Paper 2022-02
"In this analysis, we found that economic output would be between 0.3 percent lower and 1.8 percent higher than the benchmark economy 10 years after the single-payer system was implemented, without incorporating the effects of financing the system. Under a single-payer system, workers would choose to work fewer hours, on average, despite higher wages because the reduction in health insurance premiums and OOP expenses would generate a positive wealth effect that allowed households to spend their time on activities other than paid work and maintain the same standard of living. If the system was financed with an income or payroll tax, gross domestic product (GDP) would be between approximately 1.0 percent and 10 percent lower by 2030, depending on the specification of the single-payer system and the details of the financing policy.
Moreover, that wealth effect would boosts households’ disposable income, which they could then split between increased saving and nonhealth consumption. Although hours worked per capita would decline, the effect on GDP would be offset under most policy specifications by an increase in economywide productivity, an increase in the size of the labor force, an increase in the average worker’s labor productivity, and a rise in the capital stock. Additionally, we found that average private nonhealth consumption per capita would rise by about 11.5 percent by 2030. The average rise in nonhealth consumption is larger than it would be if the effects of financing the system were included in the analysis. The effects of a single-payer health care system on nonhealth consumption would be felt differently by people of different ages and incomes. The percentage increase in lifetime nonhealth consumption would be largest among younger and lower-income households after the system was implemented. If the system was financed with an income or payroll tax, nonhealth consumption per capita would be between approximately 3 percent higher and 7 percent lower by 2030, depending on the specification of the single-payer system and the details of the financing policy."
 
Here's another one, in case you don't bother reading the first!
Projected costs of single-payer healthcare financing in the United States: A systematic review of economic analyses
"In this systematic review, we found a high degree of analytic consensus for the fiscal feasibility of a single-payer approach in the US. Actual costs will depend on plan features and implementation. Future research should refine estimates of the effects of coverage expansion on utilization, evaluate provider administrative costs in varied existing single-payer systems, analyze implementation options, and evaluate US-based single-payer programs, as available.
What did the researchers do and find?
We found and compared cost analyses of 22 single-payer plans for the US or individual states. Nineteen (86%) of the analyses estimated that health expenditures would fall in the first year, and all suggested the potential for long-term cost savings. The largest savings were predicted to come from simplified billing and lower drug costs. Studies funded by organizations across the political spectrum estimated savings for single-payer. What do these findings mean?
There is near-consensus in these analyses that single-payer would reduce health expenditures while providing high-quality insurance to all US residents. To achieve net savings, single-payer plans rely on simplified billing and negotiated drug price reductions, as well as global budgets to control spending growth over time. Replacing private insurers with a public system is expected to achieve lower net healthcare costs."  
Here's an extra, for good measure and all
A Business Case for Universal Healthcare: Improving Economic Growth and Reducing Unemployment by Providing Access for All
"If the United States were to implement a system to ensure universal care, American companies would no longer face a disadvantage in competing with businesses from countries, such as Canada, that provide national healthcare systems. Additionally, healthcare would cease to be a large factor guiding individuals’ career decisions. A national, universal care system would level the playing field among domestic businesses, and eradicate the free-rider problem. For all of the above reasons, economic growth would likely improve, which would yield additional self-perpetuating benefits. There is an argument that the taxes to finance such a system would constrain business. This claim is seriously undercut by examples from around the world. For instance, Hong Kong, viewed by many as a “beacon of capitalism,” has universal healthcare. So does Denmark, which has higher levels of entrepreneurship than the United States.92 What is becoming increasingly clear now is that the current employer-sponsored healthcare system in the United States does hurt business."



Good job, you've successfully been lied to by capitalists your entire life and like watching people suffer how cute.

fuck brian and his family, fuck healthcare, and fuck anyone who's a republican pro-capitalist simp. those who say universal healthcare wouldn't work are lying to you because they like money too much and don't understand economics. fuck right off. time and time again, it's been proven to work in nearly every country that's done it. in fact, we pay taxes each year with billions of funds that goes to israel for fun and they provide their people with universal healthcare. be honest and admit, you just like watching your neighbor suffer. if that's you, just say that with your chest.
 
if universal healthcare didn't work, why do we pay for tricare for millions of people in the military and vets? why do we pay for medicare and medicaid? so i can get free healthcare if i'm disabled enough or poor enough, or if i sell my body to the government, but otherwise i have to pay my own way AND pay for someone else's healthcare? make it make fucking sense @fl0r1dakil0s 

ma’am this is a thirst thread about Luigi. Write to your local congressman or something 

oh that's not- 

catch me if you can...
working on my tan
luigi mangione

...dying by the hand 
 

are your thoughts and prayers extended to the families of people who have been murdered by Brian Thompson's company's 32% denial rate, or is it just social murder that you find unacceptable?

america is literally the only developed country without universal healthcare. and guess what? in countries where healthcare the workers are still paid so its not even like its forced labor. I’m pretty sure the UN considers access to safe water a human right and requires specialized labor to build and maintain purification systems.   You can hide behind being “pro workers rights” all you want but you clearly just lack empathy for humanity

Yes! I was thinking the same thing. Ben and Ed don’t push Lana to do typical pop star, hollywood type stuff and respect her artistic vision and I think that could be exactly what Chappell needs to stay mentally well enough to have a long career, and she’s got the talent and power like Lana did to be successful without all the extra stuff.

Yes! I was thinking the same thing. Ben and Ed don’t push Lana to do typical pop star, hollywood type stuff and respect her artistic vision and I think that could be exactly what Chappell needs to stay mentally well enough to have a long career, and she’s got the talent and power like Lana did to be successful without all the extra stuff.

yup yup yup. with all due respect floridakilos, you are using progressive/left-wing pro-workers rights messaging to hide behind your real message, which has nothing to do with protecting the rights of people's labor, but rather that human beings are not required to help human beings. that is a fundamentally isolationist, anti-social belief.
 
no, i am not holding a gun to someone's head, demanding that their labor help my father receive a double lung transplant (which he needs soon). but rather, those incredibly smart and able-bodied human beings are selflessly working to ensure people like my dad are able to live. it is a social contract into which we have entered.
 
the moment an insurance company denies someone like my dad (which UnitedHealthcare HAS DONE to others), they have broken the social contract.

america is literally the only developed country without universal healthcare. and guess what? in countries where healthcare the workers are still paid so its not even like its forced labor. I’m pretty sure the UN considers access to safe water a human right and requires specialized labor to build and maintain purification systems.   You can hide behind being “pro workers rights” all you want but you clearly just lack empathy for humanity

america is literally the only developed country without universal healthcare. and guess what? in countries where healthcare the workers are still paid so its not even like its forced labor. I’m pretty sure the UN considers access to safe water a human right and requires specialized labor to build and maintain purification systems.   You can hide behind being “pro workers rights” all you want but you clearly just lack empathy for humanity

america is literally the only developed country without universal healthcare. and guess what? in countries where healthcare the workers are still paid so its not even like its forced labor. I’m pretty sure the UN considers access to safe water a human right and requires specialized labor to build and maintain purification systems.   You can hide behind being “pro workers rights” all you want but you clearly just lack empathy for humanity

america is literally the only developed country without universal healthcare. and guess what? in countries where healthcare the workers are still paid so its not even like its forced labor. I’m pretty sure the UN considers access to safe water a human right and requires specialized labor to build and maintain purification systems.   You can hide behind being “pro workers rights” all you want but you clearly just lack empathy for humanity

america is literally the only developed country without universal healthcare. and guess what? in countries where healthcare the workers are still paid so its not even like its forced labor. I’m pretty sure the UN considers access to safe water a human right and requires specialized labor to build and maintain purification systems.   You can hide behind being “pro workers rights” all you want but you clearly just lack empathy for humanity

People still defending America’s healthcare system in 2024 (almost 2025) 

I love a super hot American hero,  the things I’d let him do to me.  Imagine sharing a cell with him for life

Are you a Hasanabi head 😌
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