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 21:03:24

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?