Murder Cultists are about to @ me

2025-03-01 19:05:50

finitebanjo@lemmy.world

2025-03-01 19:58:31

frank@frank.casa

Makes sense. Universal healthcare advocates and insurance CEOs both want a monopoly, one by the government and the other by capitalists. Either way, you have no choice in the matter. They dictate whether you get healthcare or not.

2025-03-01 20:01:13

Frank Casa

frank@frank.casa

Context: If you want to give people choice and power in healthcare, you need to decentralize it, not centralize it. Because greedy people like centralization since it gives them money and power.

2025-03-01 20:04:28

finitebanjo

finitebanjo@lemmy.world

Kind of a shit take that supports the concentration of power and capital.

Universal Healthcare is gained when a population as a whole demands that the wealth of others be distributed in a way that benefits the whole instead of the few.

Decentralizing it, without a central authority, means wealth is not distributed and countless are left to suffer. In fact, how is that any different from the way things are right now?

2025-03-01 20:58:28

Frank Casa

frank@frank.casa

Before the greedy consolidated healthcare into mega-organizations and privatized hospitals, most hospitals were run by charities, religious organizations, and local governments (usually counties). People paid cash for routine healthcare, which kept prices low, and had major medical insurance for major expenses. People had control over their healthcare.

The system was not perfect, but it was a lot better than what we have today. And we can do a lot of things to make such a system better, such as requiring hospitals to provide indigent care to those who cannot afford to pay (i.e. free or reduced cost healthcare) in exchange for not paying taxes. If they chose not to provide indigent care, then they are taxed, and that tax money is used to fund government-run hospitals and clinics.

You don't have to centralize healthcare to provide universal healthcare. There are a number of ways to do it.

2025-03-01 21:00:10

finitebanjo

finitebanjo@lemmy.world

You don’t have to centralize healthcare to provide universal healthcare. There are a number of ways to do it.

Well let me know when you accomplish that. Technically, there is absolutely nothing stopping you from doing it right now.

2025-03-01 21:09:57

Frank Casa

frank@frank.casa

Yes, we already have that in many major counties in Texas, and it seems to be working very well. We provide universal healthcare, unlike the rest of the country, and yet taxes are still low, and people have a choice of providers.

I would still make some recommendations that would make it better. Now we just need to refine and duplicate the model nationwide.

2025-03-01 21:12:33

finitebanjo

finitebanjo@lemmy.world

I tried searching it and couldn’t find a single thing except for some articles talking about 1332 waivers from the Affordable Care Act, which is very much centralized.

2025-03-01 22:42:42

yunxiaoli

yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works

Texas does not have universal healthcare. It does however have the second highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world. Not just the US.

2025-03-01 22:56:13

Frank Casa

frank@frank.casa

I never said Texas has universal health care. I said that certain counties in the state have universal health care.

2025-03-01 22:59:53

yunxiaoli

yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works

That’s still incorrect. UHC isn’t just subsidized, it’s free at point of sale. There are no counties in the US that offer this. There are no organizations in the US that offer this.

2025-03-01 23:09:56

Frank Casa

frank@frank.casa

With Harris Health, if you qualify for free healthcare, you get a "gold card" that gives you free healthcare. You have to qualify based on your household income and household size. Others are provided services based on a sliding scale based on their income.

And there is no such thing is free healthcare. You either pay for it in advance via taxes or insurance premiums, or you pay at the time of service. It is not free, and will never be free.

Systems can be made to be more efficient and more affordable, but they will never be free since it takes resources and labor to run a healthcare system.

2025-03-01 21:03:24

maplehill

maplehill@lemm.ee

I’m old sometimes. I looked just at the first and second panel and immediately thought, “Who’s Tankies? Some YouTuber? And does he like or play flugelhorn?” 😅. Then I read the rest and said, “Ohh … That Mangione.”

2025-03-01 22:58:25

m_f

m_f@discuss.online

FYI you’re going to get a lot of downvotes because the source of the comic is a right wing extremist. The art style is recognizable enough that people will probably downvote it on sight, even if you’re repurposing it for a different point.

2025-03-01 23:30:44

archomrade [he/him]

archomrade@midwest.social

This is the second time this week someone has inadvertentlu appropriated a bit on conservative culture in an effort to lionoze ‘tankies’

2025-03-01 23:57:05

AwesomeLowlander

AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works

Context? What’s with the universal healthcare advocates?