Comment by ToucanLoucan
1 year ago
I would say it's more like the American people are so propagandized in favor of free markets and enterprises and so poisoned at the notion of the Government doing literally anything that they utterly don't care about how thoroughly and completely our freedoms have been subsumed by capital interests, as long as they aren't "big government me no like."
Government death panels? Orwellian, literally 1984, communist, socialist. Your insurance company refusing to cover your cancer treatment? Well that's the free market bub, can't argue with it. Sorry you're gonna die.
Like I'm being hyperbolic, sure, but I am being that hyperbolic?
Some people might be against regulating private data collection on principle, but I would imagine far more people are simply unaware of it. And even if they are, it’s pretty damn hard to opt out of, and the harms are pretty abstract.
Unless you can demonstrate concrete ways in which it even inconveniences someone, it’s gonna fall pretty low on most people’s priorities.
You can always pay out of pocket for healthcare. "Government death panels" are death panels because it is illegal to seek any other care/recourse
There is no such thing as "government death panels" under any proposed universal healthcare system.
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I have heard proposals to allow the government to compete with private insurance on the free market (the public option/Medicare for all).
I have never heard a serious suggestion for the government to ban private insurance in the US.
Even in “communist” China where the government negotiates drug prices, people can buy private insurance.
Well it has already been implemented in Canada which is the country that most resembles us out of any
There was never any proposal for any system that bans people from paying for their own care :|
You’ve been duped.
if there is a cancer treatment that is covered by Canadian Medicare but the government chooses not to cover you for whatever reason (world is in triage, etc. etc.), you cannot pay out of pocket for that care.
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