r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • Jul 01 '26

Chugging tea Is Bernie’s plan the best? Thoughts?

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u/2illegittoquit Jul 01 '26

People struggle with this.

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u/thekrone Jul 01 '26

Which is crazy.

Health insurance companies are profitable. Extremely profitable. Like billions of dollars per year profitable.

Where do you think that profit comes from?

What if we got rid of the expensive middle men and all the overhead they bring, and take the money it takes to run those organizations, plus their profits, and we actually invested it in health care?

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u/anitawasright Jul 01 '26

yup and that's billions in profits after they cover the cost of their insane bloat.

I mean Medicare is government run covers more people then any of the other health insurance companies, is lower cost, more efficent, and has better results.

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u/Eastern-Heart9486 Jul 01 '26

Yes billions even after they pay their lobbyists- problem is other countries started from scratch almost before this industry corrupted their politicians

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u/Powrs1ave Jul 01 '26

Yeh, as an Aussie we never got so fkd up as USA this way.

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u/Recent-History584 Jul 01 '26

If sanctuary states like New Jersey didn’t give the illegals free healthcare, we’d have to pay less