• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    I don’t like the term “free healthcare”, because most of us would be paying for it in taxes, it would be more accurate to call it “socialized healthcare”.

    Saying “I want free healthcare” allows the media to twist your words and make you look like some “entitled brat” that “want everything for free”.

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      1 month ago

      Insurance is already a socialized program- just a private one. Creating public health care simply removes the profit incentive.

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        1 month ago

        It healthcare has a own risk (literal translation, I’m not sure about the English term) in which the first costs are out of pocket until you reach a certain amount (400-800 depending on your insurance package).

        So it’s not ‘free’ as you don’t pay for all of it, but you can’t go into crippling debt over medical payments.

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        1 month ago

        The ones who still think Obamacare and ACA are different things definitely need a catchy label and marketing if they’re gonna vote for it.

        Or just lie to them, their own leaders have learned it doesn’t matter what you tell them. Call it the “everyone gets a puppy” Bill or whatever. Then tell them they got a free puppy. They won’t know they didn’t.

        • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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          1 month ago

          The government doesn’t get money from taxes. It prints money, the taxes are how it removes money from circulation.