...tax the fuck out of the rich. Given the massive wealth transfer from the lower and middle classes upward in the last 2 decades, the rich were the primary beneficiaries of the debt. They won't of course because British pols are comparably as feckless and owned as American ones.

“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” -- John Gardner:

...a new study has determined that water is wet.

This is retarded.

1. It isn't for profit healthcare that is the problem, it's THIRD PARTY PAY.
2. I don't use third party pay, ever, for healthcare. I've been insured nonstop for over 30 years, and NEVER ONCE has my insurer paid my doctor.
3. Even when I've had emergencies, I still called around, negotiated a fair cash up front rate, paid cash up front, and billed it to my insurer. My cash up front rate was sometimes below any co-pay negotiated with my insurer, lol.

I just recently had some elective surgery that would have cost me about $2000 on my annual deductible, but I was able to cash pay a negotiated rate of $400 including a follow-up "free". I submitted the $400 to my insurer and they reimbursed me.

Third party insurance exists because YOU VOTERS demanded the HMO Act of the 1970s, which tied health care to employment, and then employers outsourced it to third parties.

Health care is remarkably cheap in the US (cash pay, negotiated) and I don't have to wait months to see a doctor when I call and say I am cash pay. They bump me up fast.

Thinking deeper on it, you might be a prime example of how captialism is indeed a cult. Thanks for the sermon buddy, but you proved the opposite of your point. Capitalism in practice is always a matter of power and favoritism, and a key attribute is pretending it's an equalizer while making systemic inequality worse. The numbers, and history, back this up in every conceivable way. Pretending communism is just theology while capitalism is "science" is disingenuous, arguing in bad faith, and fucking laughable. Might as well be arguing astrology vs astronomy with a fortune-teller.

You're entitled to be as wrong as you like

Nearly got canned for defending them on slashdot during the quiet period pre-IPO.

DivX's Stage6 *could* have put us 10 years ahead of where we are now media-wise with regard to revenue share, remix culture, and media company profits for streaming even... if the asshats at companies like UMG, and in particular UMG itself, could have worked with technology instead of losing their paranoid, backwards minds over it.

Fuck UMG.

...but home grown backdoors are just peachy keen!

Officially unintended, but in practice... clearly core to its premise.

Nah.

Iâ(TM)m 51. Iâ(TM)ve had health insurance continuously for 35 years and have used it exactly ZERO TIMES.

I am self pay. For everything but true life threatening emergencies, which Iâ(TM)ve had zero.

Even the ER is cheaper when negotiated self pay.

My urologist is stunned that I pay $85 for his visits. Self pay. Including labs. My colleague goes to the same urologist and his insurance pays $550 for the same visit and naturally it comes out of his deductible lol.

Insurance is a scam. All insurance is legal gambling and gamblers never win.

Supply and demand dictate this is exactly the case.

If something is valuable to everyone, it should only be accessible to those who have enough saved value to acquire it.

The poor fucked themselves. My parents are poor but worked hard so I wouldn't be.

Being compensated for it means it wonâ(TM)t get wasted and will always have a fair valuation.

Compensation is as cooperative as it comes because nobody can hoard it.