• 58008@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    “We’ll do socialism, but we’ll do it just a little bit, not enough to matter to any single human being’s actual needs, but at least we broke our ultraconservative ideals for no good reason I guess?”

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      For real, if they just took that budget and applied it as a single payer healthcare system, it would be orders of magnitude more effective.

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        It’s absolutely crazy to me that you guys have the most expensive healthcare system in the world (per capita) and at the same time one of the worst compared to other sufficently develloped nations.

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          ‘It’s really expensive, but at least it’s awful’ should be the new motto, print it on the money under e pluribus anus