• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Socializing your health care might destroy you guys, since there’s so many fatties, smokers, guns and people who ignore doctors. Sounds expensive.

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      8 months ago

      Except that it is a proven fact that public health care costs less per capita than private, so actually it sounds less expensive. The people lobbying to keep it private are the only ones who stand to lose and their brainwashed army of sycophants can’t understand anything beyond the points they’ve been trained to parrot.

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        8 months ago

        So I would love public healthcare but what’s the reason that public is cheaper

        This came off snarkier than I intended I’m just curious

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          8 months ago

          what’s the reason that public is cheaper

          The number of middlemen is removed and their profit motive is removed from the equation.

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          8 months ago

          Plenty of information out there, they shouldn’t need to take the time to do that for you

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      8 months ago

      I blame the obesity epidemic on the weak ass FDA and nutrition labeling. A ‘serving’ is whatever the hell they feel like making it - I’ve seen 1/3 of a cookie, a single tick tack (rounded down to 0g sugar), and every other arbitrary amount so actually comparing products takes so much time that most dont bother. Combine this with the fact that 90% of restaurants dont even bother giving you any information at all so you have to cook or go to specific big chains to actually track calories. Also it’s a safe assumption that everything at a restaurant is packed full of carbs, cheese, and oils for max calorie density.

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        8 months ago

        Sugar free cookies! Serving size 1/100th of a cookie, round the grams of sugar down to zero! May as well, what’re they going to do? Stop you?

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      8 months ago

      Smokers?! Have you ever been to France? It’s like a trip back in time to 80s America, with a smoker on every street corner and an ash tray on every cafe patio table.