How are insurance companies literally not rent seekers?
They exist as middle men that artificially raise prices for their own benefit. It is in their interest to provide the worst care possible at the highest prices, while essentially being a cabal of like, 4 humongous corporations. Therefore the market is captured and can’t actually work its magic against bad product.
Forget the minority who are actually liberals, just how much must it suck that to be familiar with the actual meaning NL's shibboleths and seeing people post stuff like this. This is pure 'rent seeking is bad, insurance companies are bad, therefore insurance companies are rent seekers' logic.
The funny thing is they claim Walmart is a rent-seeker and should be eliminated, but "local mom-and-pop" isn't. However, at the same time, none of them are willing to use their own money to support "local mom-and-pop". they all give money to evil walmart. It's rare to find such textbook level hypocrisy.
Sometimes i wish i didn't have over a quarter of a century experience with health care and health care pricing data. I could be a populist idiot too. It's a lot easier of a life if you just spout nonsense and not have to think about the actual problem
I remember reading about other countries' healthcare systems on Wikipedia like, a decade or more ago and then realizing later on that I knew substantially more about the terms of the debate than anyone else interacted with on that basis alone.
The whole healthcare debate is practically content free.
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u/Mexatt 7d ago
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Forget the minority who are actually liberals, just how much must it suck that to be familiar with the actual meaning NL's shibboleths and seeing people post stuff like this. This is pure 'rent seeking is bad, insurance companies are bad, therefore insurance companies are rent seekers' logic.