Are we supposed to forget how much these corporations donate to political campaigns? Am I supposed to believe UnitedGroup was donating to Bernie Sanders?
The only fixes that can be made to the health insurance industry would directly cut into their profits. Better yet: eliminate the privatization entirely. There’s no compromising with the insurance companies. This all must be done at strictly their loss.
Privatized health care has long been the known problem with the system. They are not going to cooperate to help dismantle it.
Brett Stevens is a permanent opinion piece writer at the NYT. This isn’t directly from the editorial board but it is a person they hired directly.
He is their “pet conservative” though so he’s a professional moron.
Its because they get pushback from swifties. Its the conflict they are seeking not advancing any political goal.
There’s vastly worse billionaires than Taylor Swift. Idk what Swifties on Lemmy you’re trying to trigger. Thompson wasn’t even billionaire but I’d say he was worse than Swift.
This is the academic and historical definition of liberalism that I’m using. Your US civics teacher gave you the brain damage to think liberalism is the opposite of conservatism and not just a clever slander of progressives.
Different evolutions of the same ideological movement representing the same socioeconomic class. How is this hard to understand? All US presidents have been liberals. Different types of liberals exist but they are still liberals.
You seem to have some completely backwards idea that liberals are anti-billionaire socialists when liberalism is pro-capitalism by definition. NY Times is the mouthpiece of american liberalism.
Ahistorical nonsense. They don’t believe in a nobility by birth, but they absolutely believe that some people “are just better than others” and who should rule. Its so foundational to the ideology that its written into the US Constitution. Anyone who believes that capitalism is a meritocracy (ie Liberals) believes there should be a liberal elite.
This guys roughly as popular as Bernie Sanders was in 2015 and the NY Times somehow can’t connect the dots.
In our day and age liberalism is center right. It was left wing back in Napoleonic times. But its post-cold war now. Capitalism and thoroughly replaced feudalism.
The Bourgeoisie are the elite in liberal democracies, and liberalism is their ideology. Hence the name “liberal elite”.
Do not confuse liberalism with progressivism or leftism. It’s dead centrist at the moment.
If they catch him they will kill him.
No one actually gives a shit about Brian Thomas personally. People see “United Healthcare CEO dead” and they say “good”. Maybe you’re not from the US but its not strange at all.
SteamOS is an immutable variant of Arch Linux specifically tailored for handheld hardware. A new user would have a hard time ensuring it boots to an actual desktop instead of Steam. It is not a casual distro.
Yes the machine of human misery and death was already constructed before Mr Thompson got into the drivers seat. What’s you’re point? That he somehow didn’t know it was a death machine?
The M4A movement was absolutely incompetent if you compared it to health insurance Super PACs. It was basically a bunch unpaid volunteers, many with their own medical debt, against fully salaried lobby groups paid for with our premiums, our denied claims.
I think it would be the other way around: the doctors don’t stop giving you anesthesia if the surgry goes long, but now you wake up to it costing some extra thousands of dollars.
There’s literally two astronauts stuck in space right now. They’ve been stuck there for months because Boeing’s shit keeps breaking.
Not billionaires though.