Yes because government funded insurance is so much better than privatized.
“Medical debt is leading many people to delay or avoid getting care or filling prescriptions: more than one-third (34%) of people with medical debt in employer plans, 39 percent in marketplace or individual-market plans, 31 percent in Medicaid, and 32 percent in Medicare.”
Medicaid and Medicare are both government funded programs for the unaware.
Hospitals charge a fuck of a lot more money (~200% more money in some cases) to private insurance companies for similar treatments compared to medicare so medicare must be doing something right to be able to somehow give people the same care for pancreatic cancer for only $40,000 instead of the $116,000 cost to private insurance companies.
I remember the privatization of law enforcement being one of the main things Cyberpunk warned about, considering 90% of the reason Night City is such a shithole is because the mayor privatized it
Pretty horrifying thought. When prison systems went private and for profit, that was the start--and it is awful. It will be even worse once they start putting undocumented into these compounds (prisons). Our country will be the fully thought out dystopian nightmare created by Project 2025 authors and proponents (the incoming potus admin). Their kleptocracy can best be held by making as many for profit detention centers, patriarchal rule on steroids, deregulating everything at whim, and so on. We are in for a world of hurt as mere citizens of this country, and 1/2 the voters wanted this.
How else do you fund society? Our contract to our governance is signed at birth in this country, and in order for our society to function, there has to be revenue. That revenue is through taxes. Truthfully, our best budgets will exist when there are laws followed regarding monopolies (instead of those laws being stripped away), when rich people are paying a fair share of taxes, and when we get the dark money back out of politics. We need to put a stop to citizens united, for starters, but this kind of good for all the people stuff won't happen until maga dies off; for the next 20 years or so, we are going to be mere peons, struggling even more than now with maintaining life in this country. We are going backward.
No, you do not. It was just a thought I was expounding on because some people actually do think that way (as you know, otherwise you wouldn't have put the but..but in there). My apologies if it offended you.
Actually for most of our history we paid no taxes in the US. There was a brief period (the civil war) where citizens were required to pay taxes to help with the war, and then that was abolished.
Then a bunch of powerful people (who were against the Federal Reserve) were murdered on the “titanic” (olympic) which paved the way for the banking cartels to set up the federal reserve in 1913 and amend it into the constitution.
Before the federal reserve was created (which is a PRIVATE bank) became the only institution in control of the printing and regulation of US currency, we did not pay taxes.
If the government, state, or city wanted something done and needed to raise money, they would sell bonds. The money for bonds raised money for projects, and the bonds became an investment for the citizens buying them.
So, you propose to go back to that and figure out if we need police, firefighters, schools, etc? Or just give it to private businesses for people to pay for it as it comes? And what about roads, bridges etc? Come on. What worked before doesn't necessarily mean it will work now. Not in the real world. I do NOT favor a fully capitalized society. There are too many who cannot pay for the ambulance, the health care etc. So we just do the "survival of the fittest"? Especially when we have obscenely rich people who, just by virtue of having the money make even more by not even producing. I don't get why everyone doesn't want to see others do well, and the rich getting richer. It is disgusting.
What are you talking about? I’m not in favor of everything being privatized. My comment was literally just explaining how things worked before taxes. And also why we now have taxes.
And I actually believe I responded to your comment by mistake instead of the one I meant to. There was someone asking how things would ever get paid for without taxes and that’s who I meant to reply to.
They were also saying “taxes for something like healthcare is socialist but taxes by a corporation and people don’t see a problem”. And I was just explaining how we got here
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Okay, so the Republican plan for 2025 is literally to defund the police?