• Transient Punk@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      Exactly. If your literal health and wellness are tied to being employed, you’re going to be way less likely to rock the boat.

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    10 months ago

    Because they’re currently winning at capitalism, but don’t worry, the rest of us are on a race to the bottom trying to catch up…

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    It’s important to ask why employers would be actively fighting against any significant healthcare reform. They spend countless hours annually negotiating insurance contracts which always ends up costing them and their employees more money. The only reason to continue to do this is that it allows them the ability to control employees.

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    In neoliberalist capitalist systems health care it’s a business just like labor force produce wealth for the owner, the health of the workers is just another side of the business.

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    Because of the American dream. The freedom. It is there, but you guys forgot to restrain it to individuals not corporations. They have the freedom too and they use it to fuck the individual’s freedom. System working as intended. Capitalism at its finest.

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    It’s not the only one, many countries have Jobs that offers good private health insurance, but all of them have free health care too, so you don’t need it to live, it’s just an improvment or luxury that the job offera. Like staying in a private room, going to private less crowded hospitals etc. But again, if we don’t have a job we still have a good enough free health care