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If you're rich enough you'll be fine. This seems like an another example of how expensive it is to be poor, but the "floor" for "poor" is elevated.

Edit: I think we should do something about it, but money = speech so there's nothing to be done as long as the status quo benefits people with money.



The status quo doesn’t benefit people with money. That they don’t get a significant benefit from Medicare doesn’t mean that shitty insurance somehow benefits them more.


It benefits people who are rich enough to have ownership interests in the shitty insurer market.


Most of these companies are public, and you do not have to be rich to own shares. Also, tons of rich people do not own healthcare insurer interests. Tbh, they generally don't perform exceptionally well.

"Rich people," as a group, do not somehow benefit significantly from insurance companies being garbage to those they insure.


Aren't a lot of those companies public? Meaning they're not owned by the stereotypical evil "Monopoly Man".




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