u/BirdDogPolitics

And here’s the part that makes me angry: this is exactly why fixing it is so hard. Every one of those layers is now an industry. Every industry has shareholders who feel entitled to that revenue stream. And every industry has lobbyists in DC whose entire job is making sure their layer never gets removed. We’re not fighting one opponent — we’re fighting 25, and each one is fighting for its life.

A single-payer system doesn’t just change who pays. It deletes most of these layers entirely. That’s why the savings estimates are so large — and it’s also why the opposition is so ferocious. The “waste” in our system is somebody’s paycheck, and they know it.

They’re organized. They’re funded. The only thing we have that they don’t is numbers.

What layer have you personally run into that made you realize how broken this is? Prior auth denials? PBM games at the pharmacy counter? Surprise bills from a middleman you never knew existed?

Somewhere in between pissed off, traumatized, grieving, and coping with dark humor. Woman who is over 6 weeks pregnant but the fetus is not viable and there is no heart beat.

They just walked in her house because the door was open.

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Please get the Red Card and help spread the word. Fewer than 5 percent of detainees have any criminal record but they are being forced to work for $1 per day and being tortured. The children are being lost and some trafficked.

This is wrong. Please stand on the right side of history and humanity.

Red cards.

https://www.ilrc.org/redcards