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BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

What does trashing for-profit healthcare have to do with being woke?

Republicans overwhelmingly are the ones that support laws that further privatize healthcare and allow this dynamic, and have been for decades now. It’s weird he’s trying to blame being woke on that.

Maybe don’t take economic input from a largely irrelevant comedian.

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wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
He doesn’t. Read the article.

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- BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  He literally does in the article. I read it. That’s where I got this sick quote:
  
  Schneider pointed out, “We need to spend 100 billion dollars [on healthcare] instead of giving it to Ukraine forever wars, when we could end homelessness and get people healthy in one minute instead of just dumping our money.”
  
  What he gets wrong is that the law as it is allows the healthcare industry to be what it is right now, and we could actually support Ukraine and get our people healthy with the right prioritization in Washington.
  
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  - wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No, what he is saying is we should solve our own problems before paying for others wars. 100 billion could do a lot of good here.
    
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    BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I agree with that vague statement but that’s not what Rob is saying. He’s saying rather than find Ukraine we should heal our people. I agree about healing our people, but we can do it both by amending healthcare laws to not run the industry for profit.
    
    No qualitative service (such as healthcare, housing, education, etc.) should be run with a quantitative strategy, because the focus turns from providing an effective service to being profitable. The correct answer is to end privatized healthcare and pay it out of our taxes like these other nations Rob alludes to in the article.
    
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    Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ukraine is far from a forever war, unless you’re proposing that Russia will keep invading them forever. They’re literally defending against a foreign enemy, you know, that thing that all soldiers swear to do. It is beneficial to Ukraine and to the United States for Ukraine to stand. If Russia expands into Ukraine then we’re back in a pre-WWII situation where a foreign enemy power is expanding across Europe against the will of every other country on the planet, except maybe China and NK.
    
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