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Dr. Oz is a charlatan who's allowed to exist because the vitamin and supplement industry lobbied against FDA oversight and won.
He's the literal product of corruption.
And Snakeoil
If everyone just said fuck it and stopped paying their insurance, it would crash not just those companies, but domino into taking out the entire stock market.
Like, these companies are worth so much, and they invest in others and people invest in them. If their entire revenue stream is stopped at once that's it.
Which makes it kind of a nuclear option, one I've intentionally not mentioned and haven't seen anyone else either.
But the day may be coming
Corporations mainly pay for health insurance. Imagine employee's reactions being told they were getting cut off. Not going to happen.
Just wish the US would get a universal healthcare system like every freaking other developed country in this world. Will never happen. Ugh.
Nah, the Republicans would rather see you spend twice as much per capita (the whole population!) to cover a third of the population via public insurance and then get you guys to then spend money on private insurance and then have to pay any time you need any care.
You know... Fiscal responsibility...
Single payer healthcare is so complex to implement that only 22 of the 23 most developed countries in the world have done it.
The US system is grotesque.
While I agree with the sentiment (where this should be the case), this isn't actually true for some of these countries.
Australia, for example, though not sure if we're included in this 23, we have a private system also.
For all emergency care, it's single-payer. Private health insurance / private hospitals are not permitted to provide emergency care, nor out of hospital car, but all other hospital care is allowed (I am simplifying, as I'm not super clear on it either). Further, private health insurance is not allowed to cover things that Medicare doesn't at least also partially cover.
Sounds good right? Sounds like private health is kept in check? I mean, sort of, but it's still really profitable, and you even get a tax break.
What it doesn't stop, is prices getting higher and you having to cover the difference because health care employees are not necessarily employed by the stat, and can set their own prices (which is either covered by private insurance in hospital, or out-of-pocket outside hospital as private can't cover that).
If you don't have private health, you often have to wait way longer in the public system for non-emergency (but still medically necessary) care, like hip replacements, eye surgery etc.
It's kinda fucked, everyone ought to be in the same queue, and if things are taking too long well then gee, I dunno, pay more / hire more / train more doctors, this doesn't take a genius to figure out.
Healthcare should be provided by the state, in-full, covered by taxes. We (and the US for that matter) have plenty of tax revenue to cover this. And if you're feeling really frisky, perhaps very slightly increase corporate taxes and tax breaks for the wealthy.
So we now have a two tiered system, where the wealthy get care first, or whoever can afford to pay. And you even get a tax break for it.
The US system is trash, and ours is utopian by comparison, but let's not pretend like all 22 of 23 countries have true, universal healthcare.
We don't, let's aim higher haha
The US system is state sanctioned terrorism of the civilian population by the plutocracy, for profit.
They do in other modern countries. Oh wait, except they don't have "uninsured" people. If your government can't guarantee you basic things like clean air and water, protection, health... what the fuck are you paying taxes for!?
Ha ha ha. Pop pop pop.
When the denying starts, the deposing starts.
He really has talent in choosing all his picks. "Ummm who could be the worst person ever to fill this role?"
Every one of those terrible picks has been a deliberate, careful choice to destabilize the country.
Just think: you all did the right thing, holding your nose at the polls, voting for Fetterman to block Oz. And now you have both of them.
Isn't life already pay to play enough? How much blood can you get from a stone?
Delay, deny, depose
Under your plan, UnitedHealth’s revenue from Medicare Advantage would roughly double to $274 billion annually,” the Democrats wrote.
That's the point.
I'd like to see another outcome, like the government withdrawing their contracts due to fraud, but regulatory capture is strong here.
what he really meant is that non millionaires dont deserve world class health care
America Last. WTF, the Government of Putin wants an epidemic to break out. How many people in the red run welfare counties would be affected by Dr. Oz's plan? Indeed, a shit ton and they voted for it.
I'll make it much simpler to understand. The only thing putin wants. Is America out of the way. Whatever form that takes. So that he can pursue his plans in Eurasia.
Oz went on to explain that most people have misread the Constitution and Bill of rights, people can have life OR liberty OR the pursuit of happiness. Only the rich will get all three...
It's an interesting perspective on a phrase that literally says "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness".
Funny because you can only pursue liberty or pursue happiness when dead. Almost like the afterlife, religion is an instrument of class oppression