Nobody, including congress, gives a rat's ass about insurance companies and their profits. The truth is that someone has to approve or deny healthcare. Every universal system does it too, but by government policy instead of corporate decision. After the CEO of United Healthcare was gunned down in the streets for doing that thankless job do you think congress is saying to themselves "hey, maybe we should get into that business"?

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jgwil2 a day ago | parent | next [-]

> thankless job

His annual compensation was over $10 million.

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Aunche a day ago | parent [-]

That's their point. Congress isn't going to get $10 million from providing universal healthcare (at least for any system that is any good), so they have no incentive to pass it. The year the ACA passed, Democrats suffered one of the worst legislative defeats in history. Nobody wants to be the person to tell millions of people that they can no longer see their chiropractor for free or that their healthcare is not longer paying thousands of dollars a month for weight loss medications.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_United_States_elections

	▲	preg_match 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There’s a disconnect between what people say they want, and what people actually want. People say they don’t like the ACA. But if you try to revoke its grants, it’s political suicide. Which is why republicans don’t even try. Bring back denying insurance for pre-existing conditions? Lower the age for parent-child plans? Can you even grasp just how wildly unpopular either of those would be? Or what about marketplace plans? Congratulations, you’ve just destroyed every small business and entrepreneur in the country. I’m sure that will go over well. The ACA is universally loved. Yes, everyone likes it. They won’t say that because they don’t know exactly what it gave them, and they’ve taken it for granted. Many of you would be uninsurable without the ACA. And that’s why, despite people complaining, the republicans do not dare repeal even parts of the ACA. It’s too popular, whether people know it or not. I suspect a single payer system would be equivalent. It would be contested hard, but once it’s passed, it’s passed. It would become so unbelievably popular for a majority of the population that suggesting a repeal would immediately end your political career.

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onraglanroad a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> someone has to approve or deny healthcare. Every universal system does it too, but by government policy instead of corporate decision

That's another lie you've been told and believed.

With Universal Healthcare the government just provides the funding. Medical decisions are made by Doctors.

	▲	nradov a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nonsense. In every nationalized healthcare system there is care rationing performed by government bureaucrats. Regardless of a doctor's opinion on medical necessity, some treatments involve long waiting lists or third-party reviews or are simply unavailable. That might be preferable to our current system in certain ways but let's not pretend that there are no trade-offs. For example, let's say you're in England and your doctor decides you need Enhertu or proton beam therapy. That decision is meaningless because the NHS won't pay for them.
	▲	consensus1 a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I would love to know how universal healthcare works in your head

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googaar a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Man I wish I could downvote a comment. This is what you’d see on Reddit.

“Thankless job” is a crazy way to describe United Healthcare.

No one cares about insurance companies and their profits?? This doesn’t even make sense, so many people rely on insurance and many stakeholders profit off the American insurance system.

	▲	whimsicalism a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You would never see content like that on Reddit as it is far outside of the political valence there.
	▲	strictnein a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> "Man I wish I could downvote a comment" I mean, you can do that here. The system just restricts what you can do until you've spent more time commenting.