What if, instead of having private health insurance, we pool all those premiums into one big community fund and whenever anyone needs medical treatments, it is paid using this pool of money?

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Oh wait…

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The amazing thing is that the more participants you get paying into a single system, the less the cost for each is while covering everyone for anything. And yet some people are against this idea, who aren’t even the ones getting rich from the current system.

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They don’t want the ‘wrong’ people to benefit.

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They’re also afraid of it becoming slow, as if it isn’t already. They buy into the propaganda that you have to wait 3 years to get seen for a cold.

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Almost like if there was was one giant super doctor company that was required by law to provide medical treatment for everyone and it could leverage economies scale and its market power to negotiate better prices and wellness outcomes.

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Hey, hey, hey. That sounds an awful lot like socialism to me.

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I don’t agree with socialism, even if it makes my life better… no, especially if it makes someone else’s life better. That’s cOmMuNisM.

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That’s why we need a public option so bad… it just makes everyone else play fairer

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I cannot decide if the right are really that stupid or if this is just satire.

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it’s clearly satire, real antivaxxers aren’t smart enough to understand what that guy’s saying

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I say both. :^) They can be this stupid but this is probably satire.

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Jack Posobiec is a weird nazi guy

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It(or similar event) was real thing.

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95 points

That’s the joke.

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Jack Posobic is a right wing grifter. He isn’t joking.

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Well, he is. He just knows the suckers aren’t in on it.

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Yeah but he hasn’t got the Armenian flag in his username which makes me think he has at least four brain cells, so it’s possibly a joke.

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Do you mean the Liberian flag? 🇱🇷 Never heard of the Armenian flag 🇦🇲 being confused for the USA’s

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Poe’s law, etc.

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This is what happens when you break words by altering their definitions. We recently broke the word vaccine, and already we have people who don’t know that a weakened virus is a vaccine.

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well obviously we should make this groundbreaking new approach available to anyone who wants it alongside traditional vaccines.

then we can just require proof of vaccination or this new alternative - let’s call it “inoculation” for now - for school attendance.

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Yeah, maybe we could suggest they even use “dead” versions of the viruses so they don’t have to actually put a live virus inside of them, and their body will learn what the virus looks like and not have to deal with it replicating.

Then once they like that idea we can suggest we attach a protein to something so their immune system can recognize it as not naturally occuring and mark it down as destroy that shit if I ever see it again even without the protein.

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