The US health care industry

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Fosheze@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y (3 replies)

For those of you wondering, the answer wound up being "yes it is". This is why click bait headlines are bad.

ivanafterall@kbin.social · 47 pts · 2y (1 reply)

In this instance, I think maybe the fact that they're asking, at all, is more telling/alarming/relevant than whatever the answer purportedly is.

xanu@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

https://youtu.be/s_4J4uor3JE?si=71SLDwc_9TwMKomH

Have you tried "kill all the poor"?

Dave@lemmy.nz · 14 pts · 2y

What kind of amateur journalist doesn't know Betteridge's law of headlines?

squiblet@kbin.social · 17 pts · 2y

Companies aren't motivated to find actual cures diseases that are highly profitable like type 1 diabetes. If they do, I expect it will be like the $3.5 million treatment for hemophilia.

donescobar@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Capitalism’s success already accounts for the poor to die as a feature not a bug

EnmaAi22@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Without the poor the rich couldn't exploit anyone but themselves

Drusas@kbin.social · 13 pts · 2y

This is not a shitpost. This is just reality.

guyrocket@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)
arin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Seems the same with COVID and flu, just get your annual shots even though you can get reinfected by variants

MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Virus are infamously hard to cure because of their wild mutation variants

bobby_hill@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y

Mask off