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  • Lots of people would exit the traditional job market, millions would start small private business. Pay would go up both because of the healthcare savings to companies and because people would stop working shit jobs for shit pay just to keep health insurance.

    It might also lead to a massive recession as for profit healthcare providers and services last l lay off workers and go bankrupt.

    So mixed bag probably good overall for workers, very bad for capitalists. But there would be a massive labor disruption and lots of people would be on the losing side initially.

    I would support a transitional system where every say 5 years we lower the age for Medicare access so we gradually ween off the old system and the healthiest most profitable pool stays in the old system the longest.

    It still screws over the next generation which I don’t love or think it’s fair but the ACA created a system so entrenched I don’t think there is a way to roll it back without causing pain.














  • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineBanned from communitytoMemes@lemmy.mlGraham Plaᛏᛏner, skull enthusiast
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    26 days ago

    Everyone always sets the bar just below their worst offense and then claims anyone under that must be a bad person for XYZ.

    “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” ― George Carlin

    So is Grahm an idiot, or a maniac? Or maybe your purity test is arbitrary and based on your own self valuation?