Oh no! Such horrors!

  • monkeyman69@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    “very popular private health insurance”

    I’m not an American, but I suspect this is a lie…

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      3 months ago

      Health insurance literally profits from not helping people as much as possible. I have no idea how anyone can think this is good, unless they profit from it too

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      3 months ago

      I have excellent private health insurance and I absolutely hate those fuckers… it’s only ‘popular’ in the sense that I’m not dead because I have it.

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      3 months ago

      He didn’t say who it was popular with.

      Healthcare executives? It’s really popular.

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        3 months ago

        And healthcare executives’ wives/husbands. And Healthcare executives’ real estate agents. And if course Healthcare executives’ stock brokers.

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      3 months ago

      Popular doesn’t mean cool, it means it’s commonplace. A popular option for insurance is privatized/subsidized insurance from your employer. Not because it’s cool, but because it’s the most viable option. Very popular. My employment-based insurance cost 60% less than Marketplace insurance.

      • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        That, and people with coverage are afraid to lose it for something seemingly unknown. The devil you know kind of thing. Not saying that’s a reason to keep it, but it’s one reason why it’s “popular.”

    • whatevs@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      I feel like it’s thanksgiving and everyone wants the crazy uncle to stop making speeches and just eat his ham and Mac n cheese

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Maaaaan, whys it always gotta be a drunk uncle? Or a crazy uncle??? I’m an uncle, and the only speeches I give on thanksgiving are how the 1993 Super Mario Movie is BETTER than the recent animated one.

        And I’m right!

        Also Charles Martinet was and always has been a TERRIBLE voice for mario. He went from a gruff itailian brooklyn plumber to an accient so over the top, mario is the only one to ever use it.

        • psivchaz@reddthat.com
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          3 months ago

          I’m so sorry to have to be the one to tell you but, based on your positions, you’re absolutely the crazy uncle. And I wouldn’t be surprised if you were drunk when you watched the 93 Super Mario.