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Trump administration purges 760,000 from ACA Marketplace health plans, claiming fraud (www.wsws.org)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/actually_infuriating@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76153514

Healthcare is a social right, not a privilege to be rationed by corporate insurers and canceled by government fiat. The fight against the assault on social programs cannot be separated from the fight against the capitalist profit system.

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[–] 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Surely, kicking 760,000 people off of health insurance will improve the economy and won't accelerate the health insurance death spiral:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_(insurance)

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  • [–] 6 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    and then theres the hordes of people that had to drop thier plans because the shutdown ended with the enhanced subsidies too last year, which damaged the DNC further, because they agreed to end it early.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Thats the goal.

    "Look! Government insurance is broken! We must change to a 100% private system!!"

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    Uh, it's already a private system. Even with Medicare and Medicaid. They're just government assistance programs that send people to private providers and private pharmacies.

    We do have a proper government-run healthcare system, though: The Veterans Administration. They have their own doctors and hospitals and vastly greater efficiency than the best private hospitals/insurance.

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