• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    The fact that they keep referring to a money making pyramid scheme that gambles on people’s lives as a ‘health care system’ should be the first clue as to why Americans hate all this.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      The language around this issue makes talking about it really treacherous. Thompson was part of the health insurance system. Which is how we manage to pay for the health care system.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    “We need to begin working toward a more rational and just system if we are to have any hope of creating a world in which Thompson’s shooting would be truly unimaginable.”

  • Chemical Wonka
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    neoliberal politics and commodification of all aspects of human life