Lots of focus now around the flaws of the american healthcare system. What can we do now to ensure a better future?

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Protest, riot, strike, etc. The government is owned by the robber barons. Aligning healthcare with a profit motive is violence of the highest order and we should respond in kind.

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Yup. Peaceful protest doesn’t register to rich people. They can’t hear it over the clinking sounds of their champagne glasses as they toast their profit margins.

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For the rich to get the message you have to hit them where it hurts, in their wallets, their balance sheets, their portfolios, or their vital organs.

Effective peaceful protests do this. If your peaceful protest doesn’t make a businesses have a loss it will be ineffective.

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Assuming you’re a US citzen:

  1. Identiy that the fault is how we fund healthcare, not “government meddling” or “bad researchers”.
  2. Pick a major political party.
  3. Register as a member and find out where your local meetings are.
  4. Make clear that the ONLY issue you care about is fixing healthcare.
  5. Volunteer, donate, or run if you can.
  6. Vote in every general, primary, or special election for whomever makes fixing healthcare a priority. Spoil if you must, but VOTE.
  7. Dont fall for lies.

Fixing healthcare funding is itself broadly popular, but since its inherently unprofitable to care for sick, disabled, or elderly people all possible fixes are either “socialism” or “die quickly”

Healthcare should be like roads or schools or calling the police, not like cars or contractors or hiring a lawyer.

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It shouldn’t be like calling the police.

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If you call the police you might wind up dead or in an institution for months or weeks.

If you call for an am ambulance, you might wind up dead or in an institution for months or weeks AND will definitely have a huge bill that you have to pay.

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Why not, it will definitely reduce the amount of sick people. Because they are dead of course, but still.

Joking obviously.

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The single greatest problem with medicine in the US is insurance. It makes costs horrendous.

I can pay less out of pocket for certain procedures than my copay.

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People seem to want to kill insurance company CEOs.

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My only complaint about this response is everyone that says it is all talk.

If that’s the only option and I don’t see another headline, there are a lot of people doing absolutely nothing.

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I agree. This can’t be the solution. It also doesn’t not have to be part of it either.

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Lol comment 'botta be removed

Edit: Yo, how is it still now removed? It’s been 10 hours! 🤣 Mods be slacking

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6 points

Quick before someone gets injured by truth!

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This is ml ofc it won’t be removed

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21 points

Collectivize it, Cuba has a much better system at much lower costs.

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21 points

Vote better.

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Lol good one

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The strategy that just keeps working better and better as time goes on.

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