• Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Honestly, a ton of people in the health insurance industry would become unemployed. As well as a lot of hospital/clinic administrators.

    A lot of stocks that are held by pensions and mutual funds would become worthless causing chaos in the stock market and destroying peoples retirements.

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      2 days ago

      I feel like that sort of highlights exactly how bloated our private system is, and how much the older generations are profiteering off the younger generations future.

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        8 hours ago

        Well, yes. But a change to a nationalized system needs to happen in stages to prevent an economic catastrophe. Obamacare was intended to just be a first step in that direction.

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      1 day ago

      The NHS has hospital administrators too (too many of them, even). And pensions somehow manage to invest well enough, probably because they have experts.

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        8 hours ago

        Did those pensions have large stakes in stable, profitable, health insurance companies that suddenly went poof? Or was that never the case?