• TheSlad@sh.itjust.works
      191·
      17 days ago

      Also its just factually incorrect. That argument doesnt work for healthcare for two reasons:

      1. it is a necessary service. People who need it don’t have a choice.

      2. Practically nobody actually buys their own health insurance; they get it as a “benefit” from their employer who chooses the provider and available plans… and guess what? Their employer is also a company whose only goal is to maximize profits. Yes there is an open marketplace for health insurance but be honest have you actually heard of anyone actually using it?

      So basically its not really a free market, its a cartel and they can charge whatever the fuck they want.

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
        1·
        16 days ago

        I remember his memoir in 93 when he discussed the ethics of defending one monarchy from another, it was very insightful but it began to ring hollow by the tenth war he fought against Bowser.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    13·
    16 days ago

    The insurance companies willfully conspire to fix prices.

    Or to paraphrase that Your Cable Company commercial, see, our service is what is called an oligopoly which is the same as a monopoly, but perfectly legal.

    Now just to clarify, because a lot of people are endorsing violence: Violence will not bring justice. Nor will it resolve your specific grievance.

    What violence will do (provided there’s enough of it) is force the society to create a system that does solve grievances for which people turn to violence.

    So you can’t kill one CEO and expect change. But if you kill hundreds of health insurance upper management (yes, there’s a lot of them), or if you burn down dozens of insurance company offices, or find a way to cost the insurance companies billions of dollars, then the state will have to do something about it, and that’s after it overwhelms law enforcement.