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[โ€“] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

We need to call the institutional capitalists' bluff. Tell them single payer is a great way to prove capitalism works AND that private insurance is needed!

Create a public single payer option, and we'll all marvel as private health insurance companies innovate and justify their existence by creating better, cheaper insurance products that we can decide to buy as a demonstration of the invisible rational hand of the market! Competition! That's why we need a single payer option! If you aren't for public insurance, you don't believe in capitalism!

[โ€“] veroxii@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Isn't getting to a monopoly the ultimate capitalist goal? Grow until you corner the whole market. So if that winner happens to be the government's "insurance"... Peak capitalism.