
Heartwarming! America Doesn't Care If You Live or Die!
Binchtopia
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The Failure of Regulation in the Healthcare System
In 1970, Nixon proposes universal healthcare delivered by 1700 HMOs. Reagan is like, this is my moment because he loves market-based solutions to social problems. The insurance companies are like, we can make more money from doing this. We might have the most costly, inefficient, wasteful and inequitable health system in the world, but that is exactly what the insurance companies love. That's how it's been designed literally from the beginning. So I'm going to read this last quote and then we'll have been at 100 years of history, y'all.
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