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Insurance companies like United Healthcare are not the only ones to blame for a broken system (www.statnews.com)

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Summary

The murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson highlights public anger at a broken U.S. healthcare system.

Rising costs, limited access, and inefficiencies have fostered widespread frustration, with health insurers and hospitals becoming key targets.

Underlying issues include the financialization of healthcare, market monopolization, and a lack of collective action to address systemic failures.

To fix this, experts propose stronger state-led regulatory agencies to curb spending growth, enforce affordability, and prioritize public welfare over profit.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The problem is they bought off both parties...

Even when they donate to people who tried to steal 2020, that didn't stop neoliberals from taking their money in exchange for fighting healthcare reform.

https://www.americandemocracyscorecard.org/unitedhealth-group/

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/unitedhealth-group/summary?id=D000000348

https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs/unitedhealth-group/C00274431/candidate-recipients/2022

When the wealthy buy off both options, the "good" option is going to lose because the "bad" option has voters who are used to blindly voting against their best interests.

Dems don't have that luxury and insisting voters change has a terrible fucking track record.

The problem is the people running the DNC would prefer their chosen candidate loses in the general than a progressive becomes president. Because if the party becomes progressive, the wealthy will stop giving them so much money.

But no e of this can change as long as the DNC leadership is made up of campaign bundlers and the only metric for advancement is how much you can bundle. The people with zero standards who will take money from anyone will always rise to the top, and keep only caring about money.

Never forget trump used to give so much to those neoliberals that the Clinton's came to his wedding and pretended to tolerate him.

Those are the quality of people steering the DNC, and have been for decades now.