Comment on xkcd #2875: 2024

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your local medical system and its workers is the reason you’re alive. You’d be just as alive under a Single Payer model or a fully public health care model. Its very possible you’d be alive without the ACA, just a lot broker.

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  • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for telling me what my life experiences are

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re welcome

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• Thief_of_Crows@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The ACA is the only reason you pay thousands to insurance companies every year.

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  • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh yeah I forgot insurance didn’t exist before 2008.

    You fucking dumbass.

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    • Thief_of_Crows@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The ACA specifically prevented socialized medicine, as a hand out to insurance companies. In a lot of ways, it was the best possible deal for insurance companies. It essentially wrote into law that they must exist. If not for the ACA, we wouldn’t all be paying thousands to insurance companies because they’d have been made illegal for all serious illnesses/injuries.

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