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Good. Burn it all down and replace it with universal healthcare.

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Like every other modern country! They all get better care for less money!!!

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No, you see, America is bigger so it won’t work for some reason

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Just ignore economies of scales you little working class peasants. That doesn’t work here.

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It’s because they have more people per capita, duh.

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Then they’re a monopoly, so we’ll split them back up in 20 years. And let this cycle continue again.

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Public services have this one difference that they’re governed by a democratically chosen body

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Awfully optimistic of you to expect that it’ll be replaced by anything better.

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If I don’t have even a shred of optimism my mental health would be x10 worse. I need it, swiper no swiping. 🙃

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Aw maannn

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I have mixed feelings. On one hand I can absolutely see m4a being awesome if implemented in the laziest way and I can see Trump winding up doing that purely for popularity (highly unlikely but not impossible). But I imagine it’s more likely to be like tricare and i imagine it would explicitly exclude politicized Healthcare like abortion, birth control, and gender affirming care.

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US Healthcare is in a pretty bad spot as it is, any durable improvement would be an improvement nonetheless. Just like how the Affordable Care Act was a significant improvement over the wild under-regulated denial-fest that the pre-ACA insurance industry was

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I like your optimism but trump will hug Eric and tell him he loves him and that he’s the bestest boy ever before he implements universal health care

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but I wouldn’t leave replacing them off of the table…

Trump wants his solutions. It’s gonna be hard figuring out what solutions currently in place will be allowed to stay.

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I’m not entirely sure why the stocks are falling. Does anybody think they’re going to tidy up their profit margins? They’re going to walk around in armored limousines with security details. And the new administration is going to make absolutely certain they can still bulldoze their way through.

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One of them already walked back a “we will limit the amount of anaethestic you’re allowed in surgical procedures” they’d announced.

The market sees that the CEOs fear for their lives and want to make it sound like they care rather than deny care, so profits will fall, because paying for healthcare is a lot more expensive than paying a call centre worker to say no.

Hence the industry as a whole is less profitable, because, you know, what with death being so unpopular suddenly these days amongst healthcare CEOs.

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I’m assuming that investors think there might be a sea change in public opinion coming, which may drive some new, less profitable, legislation.

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Portip: short stock. Pump bullets into CEOs. Profit from dump.

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That’s an actual series of missions in GTAV

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That sounds like a great next bestseller from AKPress, shelved between “how to blow up a pipeline” and “living my life”

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magdump/stockdump

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For once, we have a good news.

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Is it 0? No?

Have a ways to go then.

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Same goes for number of biz execs/CEOs.

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