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American employers are approaching an uncomfortable choice: absorb another large increase in healthcare costs or pass more of it on to workers.

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"A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health." ysph.yale.edu/news-article ...

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-- Jen Taub (@jentaub.bsky.social) 1:25 AM · Aug 17, 2026

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It's already absurd how much we pay for insurance, especially when you consider ever-rising deductibles and co-pays. My best option this year was a family plan with a $6,000 deductible!

#1 | Posted by cbob at 2026-08-17 02:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It's what we voted for.

#2 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-17 02:46 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Employers aren't in the business of providing healthcare. They're in business to build/serve/service things. Why burden employers with something that isn't their responsibility? Because the Government is extremely inefficient... And has been for decades.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-17 09:21 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

It's what we voted for.

#2 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-17 02:46 PM | Reply | Flag

Just stop Raetard. No one actually agrees with that nonsense. Half the country was on free healthcare following COVID. No one with half a brain came to the conclusion that we could afford that.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-17 09:56 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#2 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-17 02:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

You think because you're black, your nonsense comments go unchallenged? Maybe look at Boaz and where his comments got him.

#5 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-17 09:57 PM | Reply

It's what we voted for.

#2 | Posted by fresno500

Did you?

Good thing CA taxpayers are paying for illegal immigrants health care for free.

It's the least you could do.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-08-17 10:20 PM | Reply | Funny: 2 | Newsworthy 2

Good thing CA taxpayers are paying for illegal immigrants health care for free.

You can thank Ronald Reagan for that.

#7 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-08-17 11:00 PM | Reply

#5,6 eat feces and bark at the moon
We know exactly what you are.

#8 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-18 02:35 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Good thing CA taxpayers are paying for illegal immigrants health care for free.
#6 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

Agreed. I'm glad Californian taxpayers cover healthcare for those who need it too.

A health society is a strong society.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-18 02:43 AM | Reply

Half the country was on free healthcare following COVID.

What's free healthcare and how is it free?

No one with half a brain came to the conclusion that we could afford that.
#4 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

But we can afford a war with Iran?

Shut up, Stupid.

Just admit you hate America.

Instead of posting stupid lies about what's free and what American taxpayers can afford.

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-18 02:49 AM | Reply

You think because you're black,
#5 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

You're just itching to drop an N Bomb, aren't you.

You know you use it in real life all the time when referring Black people.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-18 02:51 AM | Reply

@#4 ... Half the country was on free healthcare following COVID. ...

Got a link?

thx.

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-18 03:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#5 ... You think because you're black, your nonsense comments go unchallenged? ...

Wow.

Where did that come from?

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-18 03:24 AM | Reply

He's a racist moron.

#14 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-18 04:01 AM | Reply

Employers Planning to Shift More Healthcare Costs to Workers

This is one of the four legs of the stool that is killing the middle class.

1. Remove the US from the gold standard ensuring that inflation will destroy middle class wages.

2. Switch from pensions to 401k plans further eroding the middle classes discretionary income.

3. Vastly increase the cap of student loans and remove them from bankruptcy protections ensuring middle class debt slavery.

4. Allow healthcare to become for profit creating a wealth extraction engine from the middle class chock full of deductibles, copays and ever increasing premiums sending wealth from the middle class to the 1%.

The GOP has failed the middle class for the benefit of the 1% not in a grandiose step, but by killing it with a thousand cuts.

#15 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-08-18 08:19 AM | Reply

@#4 ... Half the country was on free healthcare following COVID. ...
Got a link?
thx.
Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-18 03:23 AM | Reply

Here it is...

via GIPHY

#16 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-08-18 08:24 AM | Reply

#11. It's so palpable even the "uninitiated" can feel it.

#17 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-08-18 09:37 AM | Reply

-You're just itching to drop an N Bomb, aren't you.

Does that bother you when Boaz's race is pointed out?

Oneiron is Asian. Reminded all the time.

Bill Johnson is gay.

Those 3 get hammered constantly for it and often in very derogatory ways and often BY YOU.

But you're gonna whine about that?

Don't be such an obvious -----. At least try to be a man.

#18 | Posted by eberly at 2026-08-18 10:10 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You're just itching to drop an N Bomb, aren't you.
You know you use it in real life all the time when referring Black people.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-18 02:51 AM | Reply | Flag:

If I wanted to use that word, I would. You OTHO, call everyone who doesn't agree with you a pedo.. You're a sick little bastard and like EB pointed out, a ----- too.

#19 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-08-18 10:41 AM | Reply

" Half the country was on free healthcare following COVID. ..."

Well THAT's a bald-faced lie.

Why are you lying? Are you using Republican Math and just don't know any better, or are you gaslighting?

#20 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-08-18 10:43 AM | Reply

call everyone who doesn't agree with you a pedo.

#19 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

MAGA did that forever before it became probable that Trump is one.

Try-To-Remember

#21 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-18 10:48 AM | Reply

call everyone who doesn't agree with you a pedo.

#19 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

But if you did nothing wrong then you have nothing to worry about!

Let's all have a look at YOUR diary.

#22 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-18 11:16 AM | Reply

Don't be such an obvious -----. At least try to be a man.

#18 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Says Mr Wishy Washy fence sitting purse swinger.

Boaz claimed to be black and made an issue of it and then acted like a Nazi.

Onenut claims to be Asian made an issue of it but acts like a spoiled incel.

BJ claims to be Christian and gay made an issue of it and then denigrates the word of God and gays.

They are liars with a clear agenda of dividing Americans.

And now you are concerned what others say about them?

Wow.

#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-18 11:26 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

No one knows the color of my skin or which religion or faith I follow or my sexual preferences.

Because I don't make an issue out of those things as they are never really relevant to the discussion.

You may be able to figure out those things if you read ALL of my posts but you would be only be guessing of course.

#24 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-08-18 11:53 AM | Reply

Does that bother you when Boaz's race is pointed out?

By who?

Who was the last person to point out Boaz's race and in what context?

Oneiron is Asian. Reminded all the time.

He's also an "open borders, liberal". Every post from that person is a lie.

You think he's Asian? Why?

Bill Johnson is gay.

Is he? He's been married to a woman his entire life.

When was the last time he had sexual relations with a man?

That one time in college?

What exactly makes him gay? Your insistence? His?

That poster loathes the LGBTQ. He always has.

Those 3 get hammered constantly for it and often in very derogatory ways and often BY YOU.

You poor, sad thing.

Rushing in to get punched in the face has never worked out for you. But you're always back for more.

But you're gonna whine about that?

Can't imagine anything more whiny and pathetic than this post of yours.

Don't be such an obvious pussy. At least try to be a man.
#18 | POSTED BY EBERLY

No one can ever be a bigger pussy than you are.

You couldn't pretend to be a man if America's future depended on it.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-18 12:01 PM | Reply

If I wanted to use that word, I would.
#19 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

I don't doubt that you would, and that you do.

Thanks for sharing.

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-18 12:04 PM | Reply

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