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EDIT: I think you should get the service you pay for, just so that’s clear.
“It’s a business” is not a justification for evil, and yet that’s always how the phrase is used.
That why insurance should not be for profit.
The very concept of paying for health care through insurance is evil.
Why do we even allow a profit motive to deny health care? Should be straight up illegal.
insurance is a fucking scam that preys on the most vulnerable segment of the population in order to enrich themselves and their shareholders. and the vast majority of people think that’s just the way things are in america, therefore it’s the best possible way for things to be. what’s not to understand?
The free market is excellent at producing, at a reasonable cost, myriad voluntary luxuries like large televisions and speedy cars. These prices are naturally constrained by the consumers’ willingness to do-without. When the consumer cannot rationally choose to do-without, the elegant self-regulation intrinsic to the free market evaporates.
Not a fan of the smug liberal aura this post has.
You can point out someone is wrong but still agree with the spirit of what they’re saying…
It rarely goes over well, but I do it all the time. And I’m pretty fucking progressive.
Like, if people honestly thinks their insurance took a vow to protect them, it needs to be corrected. They’re not saying it shouldn’t be changed, but the first step to fixing it is understanding where we’re at.
To be honest, I hadn’t interpreted the quoted toot (man I do hate that they are called toots) as trying to educate people on how insurance works. In that light I do agree with what you are saying, people should be aware of how these systems actually work.
Apologies if this post is coming off as overly ‘smug liberal’.
Like this guy has a point they dont have a duty of care, they didnt take an oath, they are a private for profit company with shareholders. They will absolutely take as much as they can, give you as little as they can and be as cunty about it as they can get away with.
Its fucking WRONG but its not surprising.
I feel like every time someone uses the word “liberal” on lemmy, the meaning of the word shifts slightly to the right.
Liberals are right wing. They’re comparatively further left than conservatives but both ideologies favour capitalism as the economic system which is inherently on the right – in opposition to a more controlled market.