What if, instead of having private health insurance, we pool all those premiums into one big community fund and whenever anyone needs medical treatments, it is paid using this pool of money?
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The amazing thing is that the more participants you get paying into a single system, the less the cost for each is while covering everyone for anything. And yet some people are against this idea, who aren't even the ones getting rich from the current system.
They don't want the 'wrong' people to benefit.
They're also afraid of it becoming slow, as if it isn't already. They buy into the propaganda that you have to wait 3 years to get seen for a cold.
Almost like if there was was one giant super doctor company that was required by law to provide medical treatment for everyone and it could leverage economies scale and its market power to negotiate better prices and wellness outcomes.
Hey, hey, hey. That sounds an awful lot like socialism to me.
I don't agree with socialism, even if it makes my life better... no, especially if it makes someone else's life better. That's cOmMuNisM.
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Idk why you would not want to work less, in better conditions and get paid more, because that's how it is for the average worker
Because... what if it benefits someone else? The horror!gasp
That's why we need a public option so bad... it just makes everyone else play fairer
That's the joke.
Jack Posobic is a right wing grifter. He isn't joking.
Well, he is. He just knows the suckers aren't in on it.
Yeah but he hasn't got the Armenian flag in his username which makes me think he has at least four brain cells, so it's possibly a joke.
Do you mean the Liberian flag? π±π· Never heard of the Armenian flag π¦π² being confused for the USAβs
Poe's law, etc.
I cannot decide if the right are really that stupid or if this is just satire.
it's clearly satire, real antivaxxers aren't smart enough to understand what that guy's saying
I say both. :^) They can be this stupid but this is probably satire.
It(or similar event) was real thing.
Jack Posobiec is a weird nazi guy
well obviously we should make this groundbreaking new approach available to anyone who wants it alongside traditional vaccines.
then we can just require proof of vaccination or this new alternative - let's call it "inoculation" for now - for school attendance.
Yeah, maybe we could suggest they even use "dead" versions of the viruses so they don't have to actually put a live virus inside of them, and their body will learn what the virus looks like and not have to deal with it replicating.
Then once they like that idea we can suggest we attach a protein to something so their immune system can recognize it as not naturally occuring and mark it down as destroy that shit if I ever see it again even without the protein.
Ate the onion?
Itβs hard to tell sometimesβ¦
Jack Posobic is a right wing douche nozzle. Dude's either serious as a heart attack or knows how dumb the people he peddles this shit to are and this is him screaming into the ether.
Satire is dead.
The guy must be full of sarcasm.
Yeah bro just snort some ground up small pox pustules like our ancestors did.
The oral polio vaccine actually did that. It used an attenuated virus that didn't just confer immunity on the recipient; the mild infection from that weakened virus was (somewhat) transmissible to the community at large. Everyone who was directly vaccinated via OPV had a small but significant chance of infecting and thus immunizing the people around them.
Of course, there was also the problem that the attenuated vaccine occasionally mutated, and about 25 years ago, we got to the point that the vaccine was actually causing more cases of paralytic poliomyelitis than the almost entirely eradicated wild variants...
The same thing that always happens will happen: I canβt take it! It makes me sick!
(For a day).
The resilience and lack of capacity for any discomfort at all is mind boggling. A fever for 1 day probably wonβt kill you, will protect your family, and save you A LOT of money in medical bills and work loss (paycheck loss) going forward.
Iβve done 2 things post COVID booster, and post H1N1 which was live attenuated in the nose: stayed home and played a computer game, or, took Tylenol and gone about my day.
It amazes me that society continues to function given people the number of people who canβt handle minor life discomforts without complete personal implosion. Granted, the grace with which COVID masking for 10-20min at a time was handled by the masses is a marker of that.
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Small pox too. Milk maids were exposed to cow pox as part of the job and as a result were immune to small pox.
True, but then we developed the smallpox inoculation, which had roughly a 70-30 chance of killing you outright.
This is what happens when you break words by altering their definitions. We recently broke the word vaccine, and already we have people who donβt know that a weakened virus is a vaccine.
LMAO
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