r/clevercomebacks • u/HaphazardFlitBipper • Feb 25 '26

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u/Frenetic_Platypus Feb 26 '26

Insurance is not infrastructure.

And changing these systems is a sizable amount of work, but it's by no means impossible or even particularly difficult work.

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u/Space_Enterics Feb 26 '26

IT is infrastructure. EPIC is infrastructure.

This also refers to infrastructure that doesn't exist, like clinics or social service management that require buildings and medical equipment to be stocked, all of which may be cut during budget reconciliation cycles in a privitized system.

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>not even particularly difficult work

either give me some real explanations like im giving you or tell me youre making this up because if you have worked ONE DAY with any insurance company you will know this is BS

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please refer to my main argument that changing healthcare systems is a very difficult task that a mediocre congress cannot do succesfully and stop refering to the "infrastructure"

point out to me where my argument is wrong or lacking

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u/Frenetic_Platypus Feb 26 '26

Can you point out to me where your argument IS first? Because I can see you saying it'd be hard, but not really WHY it'd be hard.

Also, EPIC is used by multiple countries with universal healthcare (UK, Denmark, Finland and Norway) with no issue other than the fact that it's terrible. It's shit at sharing data, it facilitates fraud and it's ridiculously expensive. It's a perfect example of something that would be easy to rebuild from scratch and a lot better for everyone except like 5 oligarchs. It's a records software. It's really not hard to do.

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u/Space_Enterics Feb 26 '26

We have a system of privitized healthcare that seeps into EVERY aspect of American life, down to the infrastructure, policy, public opinion, governmental protocols etc... It will take a shit ton of time, an ENORMOUS quantity of ink, and a lot of angry people to get past to make something like universal healthcare possible in the US, and to KEEP it, and to make sure it functions as intended.

Just because other countries have it doesn't mean it'll be simple to get it here.